What is AI citation?
An AI citation is a source an AI assistant links to in its answer to show where a claim came from.
Limelit counts AI citations on every account, including the free one; it only sees the citations an engine returns, so an engine that shows no sources adds no citations.
Definition
An AI citation is a source an AI assistant links to in its answer to show where a claim came from. In Limelit, Cited counts them per source: How many AI answers actually CITED this source in the response. Cited is the subset of Retrieved that made it into the answer.
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The things people ask us first.
No. A mention is the brand's name in the answer text. A citation is a source the answer links to, which can be your page, a competitor's, or a third party's.
Retrieved counts every answer that fetched a source while researching. Cited is the subset of those where the source made it into the answer.
No. Some engines list sources on every answer and some rarely do, so citation counts are compared engine by engine, not as one pooled number.
Yes. Limelit lists the cited URLs per source and marks which ones are yours, a tracked competitor's, or an independent site's.