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How to monitor citations in AI answers

ai-citation-monitoring a saved expert workflow your assistant follows, in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Track which of your pages AI answers cite and how that set moves: citation counts and positions per URL, new and lost citation sources, per-engine cuts over time.

Try it

monitor our citations

Private beta Part of the quattr-ai-search plugin, rolling out org by org. Request access ↗

Say any of these

  • which pages get cited
  • citation monitoring
  • are we gaining or losing AI citations
  • cited URLs trend
  • what does ChatGPT cite us for
  • new citations this month

You never name the skill or a tool, the assistant routes on what you asked. These are the phrasings it recognises for this one.

And when it stays out of the way

Not for the full audit with competitor standings and coverage gaps (aeo-audit), for prompts we're MISSING from (ai-prompt-coverage-gaps), or for why citations dropped (anomaly-investigator).

Use it instead of aeo-audit for the ongoing watch of OUR cited pages; use aeo-audit instead for the full standings picture.

What it runs

  • ai_page_citations
  • ai_visibility_trend
  • ai_citation_attribution

3 governed analyses, composed and scoped for you. Named here for transparency, not because you have to ask for them.

The numbers behind it

Metrics it reads, each defined in the reference

AI citation countAI citation rateAI mention countAI referral sessionsAI referral source splitAverage citation positionCitation category mixCitations per cited pageCitations per promptCited pages per promptPer-prompt citation share

Reports these numbers feed

AI bot activity reportAI referral traffic reportAI visibility reportMonthly executive search report

What it refuses to do

  • A majority of citations produce no brand mention ("ghost citations"), citation and mention counts stay separate columns.
  • New/lost churn at low counts is noisy; weekly deltas on single URLs get direction language, not significance language, unless tested.

What the answer looks like

Skill: Watch citations move engine by engine. Simulated · illustrative

Are we gaining or losing AI citations?

Analysis plan, every step, resolved for you

  • Routed to the governed workflowai-citation-monitoring
  • Scope resolved before filteringsegment: AI Tracker · Jul 1 to Jul 31, 2026
  • 3 analyses queued in parallelai_page_citations · ai_citation_attribution · ai_visibility_trend
  • Honesty gates armedscope echo · freshness

Net +9 cited URLs on the month: 14 pages newly cited, 5 dropped out.

Cited URLs
47 ▲ +9 pages referenced in AI answers this month
New citation sources
14 pages first-ever citations in July
Lost
5 pages cited in June, absent in July, all Comparison pages

Jul 1 to Jul 31, 2026 vs Jun 2026segment: AI Tracker

⚠ Observationalas of Aug 1, 2026 (AI visibility loads daily)IllustrativeOpen in Quattr ↗

How-to guides earn the new citations; the five losses are all Comparison pages, refresh those first.

A simulated conversation on fictional data. Scope, freshness and the ⚠ Observational marker are attached by the same director that renders every demo here, not written by hand.

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