AI
AI Citation
The short answer
An AI citation is when a tool like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews names your business or links to your page as the source behind part of its answer.
Full explanation
Different platforms cite differently — Perplexity typically names far more sources per answer than ChatGPT, for example. Earning a citation generally comes down to three things: your page has to be found, the model has to be able to pull a clear answer out of it, and the model has to trust it enough to name you rather than paraphrase without credit.
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