AI Citation Audit
Check whether your page is easy for AI search tools to extract, verify, and cite when users ask buying, comparison, or answer-style questions.
Free score now includes AI Citation evidence. Full report unlocks exact fixes. Monitoring tracks changes, regressions, and next best action over time.
What the AI Citation score answers
The short answer: a high score means the page gives AI systems clear, quotable answers with enough context and proof to cite the right entity.
Can AI identify who should be cited?
Can it extract the answer without guessing?
Can Monitoring detect when those signals change?
8 citation-readiness checks
This metric sits beside SEO, AEO, Trust, Security, and Local Presence. It does not change old overall scores, so historical monitoring remains comparable.
Answer-first blocks
Short answers, key takeaways, direct definitions, and question headings AI tools can quote.
Extractable formats
Tables, definition lists, FAQ details, numbered steps, and meaningful lists.
Buyer-intent prompts
Pricing, alternatives, comparison, proof, process, support, and who-it-is-for questions.
Entity and proof
Business identity, sameAs, about/contact paths, testimonials, examples, and public profiles.
AI discovery
llms.txt, crawler access, schema context, and canonical URL alignment.
Freshness
Current-year context, updated dates, and structured dateModified/datePublished signals.
How it fits Free, Full Report, and Monitoring
Free scan
Shows the AI Citation score and top priority issues so users understand the gap immediately.
Full report
Unlocks exact evidence, prompt gaps, issue explanations, and step-by-step fixes for the scanned page.
Monitoring
Rescans unlocked reports, shows fixed/new/reappeared issues, tracks AI Citation movement, and includes next best action in alerts and weekly briefs.
AI citation audit FAQ
What is an AI citation audit?
An AI citation audit checks whether a page is structured so AI search tools can extract, verify, and cite useful answers. It reviews answer-first blocks, tables and lists, buyer-intent prompt coverage, entity context, proof signals, llms.txt, crawler access, and freshness.
Can this guarantee that ChatGPT or Google AI Overviews will cite my site?
No audit can guarantee inclusion in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, or Perplexity. VisRank measures the page signals that make citation more likely and identifies gaps that make extraction or verification harder.
How is AI Citation different from AEO?
AEO checks broad AI search readiness such as schema, FAQPage, llms.txt, semantic headings, and crawler access. AI Citation Readiness is narrower: it checks whether the page contains answer formats, prompt coverage, proof, and entity context that AI systems can quote or summarize accurately.
Why does Monitoring help with AI citation?
AI citation signals can change when a page is edited, schema changes, robots.txt changes, competitors publish better answers, or freshness becomes stale. Monitoring rescans unlocked reports, shows what changed, tracks fix progress and AI Citation movement, and sends AI visibility alerts or weekly briefs with the next best action.