What is Citation Share?
The share of AI-answer citations in a topic that point to your pages versus competitors. It is the GEO analogue of share of voice: who gets quoted when the model answers money queries.
Related terms
Share of Voice (AI)
Your brand’s visibility across AI answers for a set of tracked prompts: how often you appear or are cited relative to competitors. Tracked by sampling the same prompts repeatedly over time.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
Generative Engine Optimization improves how often a brand or page is cited inside AI-generated answers. It combines classic SEO (crawlability, relevance) with quotability: clear facts, named entities, sources, and machine-readable structure.
Prompt Visibility Tracking
Repeatedly asking tracked prompts and recording whether and how a brand is mentioned or cited. The GEO equivalent of rank tracking, built for answers instead of ten blue links.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of structuring pages so answer engines and AI assistants can extract, trust, and quote them: a direct definition up top, scannable steps, quotable facts, and FAQ or Article schema behind them.
AI Overviews
Google’s AI-generated summaries at the top of some results pages. They synthesize multiple sources and link to them, which can reduce clicks to publishers even when a page ranks well organically.
Zero-Click Search
A search that ends without a click to any website, because the answer appears directly on the results page or inside an AI summary. Zero-click behavior pushes measurement beyond clicks toward mentions and citations.