Citation Tracking

Citation tracking records which sources AI engines cite in their answers and whether your domain is among them. On engines that show their sources, citation share is one of the clearest signals of whether AI treats your content as authoritative.

What Rankry measures

For citation-showing engines and modes, Rankry captures every cited source URL in each answer, attributes it to a domain, and computes your citation share alongside a source gap: the domains competitors are cited in that you are not. It connects citations back to the specific prompts that produced them.

Fields & metrics

FieldWhat it holds
Cited sourcesEvery source URL the engine attached to the answer.
Citation sharePercentage of cited sources that point to your domain.
Source gapCited competitor domains you are absent from.
Cited pagesWhich of your URLs are winning citations.
Per-engine breakdownCitations split by model.

Example use case

A team sees their Perplexity citation share stuck at 12 percent. The source gap shows three review sites citing competitors that never mention them. They earn listings on those sites, and citation share climbs to 29 percent over the following month.

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FAQ

Citation tracking questions

Which engines support citation tracking?
The ones that surface their sources, including Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, plus Claude and ChatGPT when they search the web. Rankry captures citations wherever the engine shows them.
What is a source gap?
The set of domains where competitors are cited but you are not. It turns a vague goal into a concrete list of sites and pages to earn citations from.
Does a citation send real traffic?
Often, yes. Citation-showing engines link their sources, so being cited captures both credibility and interested readers clicking through.