Citation share
The share of all sources cited in AI answers for your tracked prompts that link to your brand's own domain.
Citation share measures how much of the evidence behind AI answers comes from you. Mentions show whether engines know your name. Citation share shows whether they trust your pages enough to send people there.
How Elite Answers calculates it
In Elite Answers, citation share is the number of citations to the brand's own domains divided by all citations in the answer set. If your tracked answers cite 200 sources in total and 10 of them link to your domain, your citation share is 5%.
Being cited also lifts the AI Visibility Score. In each answer where you're mentioned, a citation to your domain is worth 30 of the 100 available points.
What a low share tells you
Engines cite reviewers, publishers, forums and documentation as well as brands, so a modest share is normal, especially on “best X” prompts. The useful questions are which domains take the share instead, and whether any of your pages could answer the prompt better than they do.
- Find prompts where you're mentioned but not cited. The engine knows you; your page just isn't the best evidence yet.
- Find prompts where a competitor's own site is cited. Study what that page does.
- Publish the primary material engines need: pricing, specs, comparisons, documentation.
Elite Answers' source analysis shows which domains win each prompt, so you can see where the share goes.
Somewhere, right now, an AI is recommending your client's competitor.
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