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AI Citation Tracker for WordPress

See exactly when ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude cite your site.

Citation Tracker runs your real customer queries against four AI engines, parses every answer, and tells you which pages get mentioned, which engines, how often, and whether your share is rising or falling.

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How it works

Real customer queries, real engine responses, parsed for your domain.

Add the queries your buyers actually type into ChatGPT or Perplexity. Citation Tracker runs each one through every connected engine, looks for your domain in the response, captures the surrounding sentence, and stores 30 days of history. No mock data. No estimates. Just whether you got cited.

Citation Tracker AI engine connection screen in WordPress
Example workspace. Connect the engines you want to measure before adding queries and running a check.
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Connect the AI engines you want to measure.

Start with ChatGPT using plan credits, or connect your own provider keys for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. You choose the engines; Citation Tracker keeps the results together.

  • Clear connection status so you know which engines are ready before a check runs.
  • Your provider keys where needed for Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.
  • One place to compare results across the engines you have connected.
Citation Tracker results showing AI engine citations in WordPress
Engine 1 of 4

Perplexity AI Citation Tracker for WordPress

Perplexity surfaces sources prominently in every answer. Citation Tracker queries Perplexity directly through its API, parses each response for your domain, and tells you exactly which of your pages got the mention.

  • Visibility score across every saved query, refreshed every check, with a clean cited / not-cited / total breakdown.
  • Cited URL captured per query so you know which exact page on your site Perplexity referenced, not just whether you appeared.
  • Surrounding context preserved — the sentence around your citation is logged with the result, so you can see how Perplexity framed the mention.
  • 30-day hit-rate trend so you can see whether your Perplexity share of voice is climbing or slipping over time.
Engine 2 of 4

ChatGPT Citation Tracker for WordPress

ChatGPT cites the open web through its browsing layer. Citation Tracker checks every saved query against the ChatGPT API, parses the response for your domain, and groups all four engines into a single per-query view so you see exactly who cited you and who didn't.

  • Grouped by query — one row per question, four engine icons across, clear cited/not-cited badge per engine.
  • Click to expand the cited URL plus the surrounding sentence so you know which page got the mention and the context around it.
  • Filter by engine with a single click to focus the chart and the table on ChatGPT specifically.
  • Survives client disconnect — checks keep running on the server even if you navigate away or close the tab.
Engine 3 of 4

Gemini Citation Tracker for WordPress

Gemini powers Google's AI Overviews, the answers that increasingly replace blue-link search results. Citation Tracker queries the Gemini API directly and shows your hit rate over time so you can spot whether you're trending up or losing ground.

  • 30-day hit rate chart with smooth area-fill so you see your trend at a glance, not just today's number.
  • Period-over-period delta — green pill if your last 7 days improved on the prior 7, red if you slipped, with the underlying counts on hover.
  • Per-engine view isolates Gemini so you can diagnose which queries Google is choosing not to cite you for.
  • Twice-daily background checks via WP-Cron, plus on-demand runs whenever you want fresh numbers.
Engine 4 of 4

Claude Citation Tracker for WordPress

Claude is increasingly used inside enterprise tooling, research workflows, and the new wave of AI assistants embedded in apps. Citation Tracker queries the Anthropic API and rolls citations up by URL so you can see which of your pages are doing the heavy lifting across all four engines.

  • Most-cited pages report aggregated across all four engines, ranked, so you can double down on what's already working.
  • Page-level miss diagnostics showing which of your published pages are getting queried but missed.
  • Encrypted API keys stored AES-256 with your WordPress salts. Keys never leave your server.
  • BYO API spend — uses your own Anthropic account so you control cost and rate limits, not a vendor middleman.
Smart query generation

Stop guessing what your customers ask AI.

Click AI Generate and Citation Tracker reads your homepage, identifies what your business actually sells, and drafts conversion-focused queries that real prospects type into ChatGPT and Perplexity when they're about to choose a vendor. Local business? It adds geo-modifiers automatically.

  • Homepage-grounded so generated queries match what you actually offer, not generic SEO bait.
  • Conversion intent — comparison, "best of", pricing, decision-stage queries that buyers ask before they choose.
  • Geo-aware for local — automatic city/area modifiers when the homepage signals a service-area business.
  • Review before save — every draft shows in a checklist so you keep what fits and discard the rest.
Plans

Bring your own keys, or run ChatGPT on your plan.

Every check is a live question put to a real AI engine, and engines charge per question asked. That is why Perplexity, Gemini and Claude use your own API keys: you pay each provider at their rates with no markup from us, and the spending limits stay in your dashboard rather than ours. ChatGPT is the exception, because it runs on our account, so a licensed site can track ChatGPT citations on day one without creating a single key. That costs 3 credits per question, and you can switch to your own key at any time.

Pro Growth Agency
Monthly credits 500 1,500 10,000 shared
Perplexity, Gemini, Claude Your own keys Your own keys Your own keys
ChatGPT Your key, or 3 credits per question Your key, or 3 credits per question Your key, or 3 shared credits per question
ChatGPT questions on plan credits About 166 a month About 500 a month About 3,333 across the licence
Indexed AI Mention Search, no keys needed Not included Included Included
Competitor citation tracking Not included Included Included
  • Pro suits you for repeatable checks of your own buyer questions. Use plan credits for ChatGPT, or connect your own keys for the engines you want to test.
  • Growth suits you if citation research is your main reason for being here. Three times the credits, an indexed ChatGPT and Google AI Overview mention search with no keys to manage, and the competitor view that shows who gets cited on the questions you lose.
  • Agency includes the Growth feature set across its purchased client-site seats. Its 10,000 monthly credits are one shared pool for the whole Agency licence, not 10,000 credits per client site.

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FAQ

AI citation tracking — common questions

Everything you need to know about tracking citations from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude on a WordPress site.

What is AI citation tracking?
AI citation tracking is the practice of measuring how often and where ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and other AI answer engines reference your website inside their generated responses. Unlike traditional SEO ranking, you are not measuring your position on a search results page. You are measuring whether the AI mentions your domain, links to a specific page, or names your brand when a real user asks a question. Citation Tracker queries each engine through its API, parses the response for your domain and brand, and logs every match with the surrounding sentence and the cited URL.
How do I check if ChatGPT or Perplexity mentions my website?
Save the customer queries you want to test and click Run Check. ChatGPT can use 3 plan credits per question without an OpenAI key, or you can add your own OpenAI key. Perplexity, Gemini and Claude require your provider keys. Citation Tracker captures each response and reports cited or not cited, the URL, available context and source position. You get per-engine results, an aggregate view and a hit-rate trend.
Why is my website not showing up in AI answers?
AI engines pull citations from a narrower pool than Google. They favor pages with clear answer-shaped content (direct one-or-two-sentence answers near the top), strong structured data (FAQ, Article, HowTo, Organization schema), an llms.txt file that describes site structure, content depth (typically 800+ words on commercial topics), and trust signals like author bios and SameAs links. If you have not been cited yet, you are usually missing one or more of those layers. Citation Tracker tells you which queries you are missing on so you can fix the right pages first.
How is AI citation tracking different from traditional SEO ranking?
Traditional SEO ranking measures the position of your URL in a list of blue links for a keyword. AI citation tracking measures whether your URL or brand is named inside an AI-generated answer. Three big differences: (1) there is no fixed list of 10 results — the AI synthesizes one answer from a handful of sources, so you are either in or out; (2) the query is conversational ("best plumber near me in 2026"), not keyword-style ("plumber 2026"); (3) the same query can produce different citations on different engines, so you have to track all four major engines, not just one ranking.
Which AI engines should I track citations on?
Track all four of the major engines: ChatGPT (OpenAI), Perplexity, Gemini (which powers Google AI Overviews), and Claude (Anthropic). Each one weights sources differently. ChatGPT and Claude favor authoritative depth and clear writing. Perplexity heavily emphasizes recent, citable, source-listing content. Gemini overlaps with Google AI Overviews and pulls from the same crawl signals as Google Search. A site cited by one engine may be ignored by the others, so a single-engine view is misleading. Citation Tracker checks all four in one run.
How often should I check AI citations?
Citation Tracker runs your saved queries automatically twice a day via background WordPress cron, plus on-demand whenever you click Run Check. Twice daily is enough to spot directional changes within a week. Run on-demand checks immediately after publishing a major content update, after fixing schema or llms.txt issues, or after a competitor publishes a directly competing piece. Weekly review of the trend chart is the right cadence for most sites.
What does "cited" mean in an AI engine response?
A citation is when the engine either names your domain or brand in the answer text, or includes a link to a page on your site in its source list. Citation Tracker checks both. For Perplexity, which always returns a numbered source list, you also see your rank position (e.g. cited at #3 of 7 sources). For ChatGPT and Claude, where citations appear inline or in a separate references section, the tracker captures the matched URL plus the sentence around it so you can see exactly how you were referenced.
Can you guarantee my site gets cited by ChatGPT or Perplexity?
No tool can guarantee citations. The engines are non-deterministic and the same query on the same day can produce slightly different sources. What Citation Tracker does is give you the measurement layer: you can see which queries you currently win, which ones you lose, what your trend is over 30 days, and which of your pages are doing the heavy lifting. Combined with the rest of AEO God Mode (schema engine, llms.txt generator, content gap scanner, AI metadata, E-E-A-T schema), you have the inputs the engines actually weight, and the proof of whether your changes moved the needle.
How much do the API costs run for citation tracking?
ChatGPT can run without your own OpenAI key for 3 AEO God Mode credits per question, or you can add your OpenAI key and pay OpenAI directly. Perplexity, Gemini and Claude use your own provider keys, so those costs come from your provider accounts. The interface shows the selected engines and credit cost before a check runs.
How do I improve my AI citation rate?
Five levers, in order of impact: (1) write direct, one-or-two-sentence answers at the top of every commercial page (the engines extract these as snippets); (2) ship comprehensive FAQ, Article, HowTo, and Organization schema so engines can parse your structure unambiguously; (3) publish an llms.txt file at your domain root listing your most important pages; (4) build E-E-A-T signals (author bios with credentials, SameAs links, organization schema with founding date and address); (5) close content gaps on your highest-intent commercial pages — Citation Tracker flags missed queries so you know which pages to rewrite first.

Find out where you're cited. And where you aren't.

Citation Tracker ships with AEO God Mode Pro alongside the full AEO suite: schema engine, llms.txt generator, content gap scanner, AI crawler log, and more.

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