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A citation is one page that one answer cites as a source. The Sources tab of AEO/GEO Insights counts the citations in the scope and groups them by domain. It shows who supplies the answers in this brand’s category.

Cited domains

A domain is a site’s registrable name: blog.example.co.uk and www.example.co.uk are both example.co.uk. The list holds every cited domain in the scope, in pages, most cited first. The controls of the list act on every domain, not only on the page in view:
  • Find a domain searches the domain names.
  • Page kind keeps the domains of one page kind.
  • Site keeps the monitored brands’ sites (Brand sites) or every other site (Other sites).
  • A click on Domain, Citations, Answers or Last cited sorts the list.
The line above the table counts the domains that match, and their citations. When more domains match than the pages reach, a note under the table says so, and a filter reaches the rest. Below the Pro plan, the pages of the list reach the first 50 domains in the chosen order. A search and a sort still act on every domain. A note under the table then states the cut. A domain opens its top 20 pages, the prompts whose answers cite it most, and the latest answers that cite it. A note says when a domain has more pages or more prompts. Each page links to its address, and each prompt to its answers on the All Answers page. This brand’s own domain links to the Pages tab of Agent Analytics. Export CSV saves one line per cited page of every domain, up to 10,000 lines. When a file stops there, a note beside the button says so. The file holds every cited domain in the scope, whatever the list’s filters show. A note under the table says so.

The kind of each page

Each cited page shows its page kind: what a company could do about the page. A model reads the kind from the page’s host, path and title, never from the answers. The kinds are the ones that the MCP tools return. A page kind labels one page. An Action kind labels an Action. For a site, it labels the whole website, so one site can carry two different words. A page that no host rule decides and the model has not labeled yet shows no kind, never “other”. The CSV export has a kind column, which is empty for such a page.

The monitored brands’ own sites

The Brand sites card lists each monitored brand’s own website, this brand’s included. Each has its citations and its rank among every domain cited in the scope. The rank orders the domains by citations. Domains with the same number of citations share a rank, which reads “tied”. A brand without a website shows “no website”. When the scope holds no citation, the card says so in one sentence. A competitor’s website can be an address below its domain, such as rival.example.net. It then counts the citations of that address and its subdomains only. It shows no rank, because the ranking holds whole domains. A monitored competitor’s own site gives no Action. Actions says why.

The tiles

Citations by platform splits the citations per platform. Some platforms cite more than others, so read a domain’s share per platform too.

Filters

The competitor filter does not show on this page, because the page counts every monitored brand. Every other filter applies. See Filters.

Where it appears