The first thing you should do with your content to get cited by AI:
Give AI answers it can cite.
Before you optimize your website for AI, make sure your pages provide complete answers AI can use. GetCitedByAI will show you which answers are ready or need fixing, and what’s missing.
See what AI can extract from the text below.
How GetCitedByAI works
GetCitedByAI audits website content to find answers that AI systems can cite independently, answers that rely too heavily on surrounding context, and important questions the site does not answer yet. The audit looks at individual passages because AI systems often retrieve and reuse smaller chunks of a page rather than the page as a whole.
It checks whether the answer still works when lifted out of the surrounding text.
If a sentence depends on phrases like “it,” “this,” or “the list above,” the meaning may disappear when the passage is retrieved separately.
GetCitedByAI marks citation-ready passages that name the subject and preserve the relevant fact and scope without requiring nearby text.
It also suggests bounded fixes for passages that fail the test.
The tool then shows you what needs to be improved.
Those findings can be used to make important answers clearer and easier for AI systems to reuse accurately.
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Three findings
“It checks whether the answer still works...”
Not Extractable
- Failed criterion
- No unresolved references
- Bounded fix
- Open with GetCitedByAI instead of “It,” so the sentence carries its own subject.
“GetCitedByAI marks citation-ready passages...”
Covered
- Why
- The passage names the subject and carries both the fact and its scope without leaning on the text around it.
- Bounded fix
- None required.
“The tool then shows you what needs to be improved.”
Not Extractable
- Failed criterion
- Entity named
- Bounded fix
- Name GetCitedByAI in place of “The tool,” and say which passages it shows.
Next step is to find what AI can lift out of your page.
One question becomes eight.
You give the page and the one question it is for. The audit simulates the smaller questions a reader would also ask, then checks the page against every one of them.
What does the audit actually check?
How long does one run take?
Does it predict citations?
What happens to an unreachable page?
Can I audit a draft that isn’t published?
What is a comparable re-audit?
How long are snapshots retained?
What does one audit run cost?
Sub-queries are a simulated decomposition, not Google’s actual fan-out. Treat coverage gaps as a content completeness signal, not as a ranking prediction.
Five things a passage has to survive.
For each question the audit takes the strongest passage on your page, cuts it out, and checks whether it still stands.
Answer first
The answer is in the first sentence, not after a run-up.
No unresolved references
“It,” “this,” and “above” resolve inside the passage.
Entity named
The product or method is named, not left to the heading.
Roughly 40 to 120 words
diagnostic
A useful size. Never a reason to pad.
Answers in isolation
With nothing around it, it still answers the question.
Every question comes back one of three ways.
What the audit will not do.
- No scoreNo grade, no percentage, no gauge. Three counts, and that is the whole headline.
- No predictionIt never tells you the page will rank, be retrieved, or earn a citation.
- No invented factsEvery quoted passage is text from your page. An Absent finding stays a requirement, not a draft.
- No SEO checklistNo meta tags, no schema, no word-count targets. One job, done at passage level.
Fix the page. Run the same questions again.
Example counts from a sample page, not results from a real audit.
first run
4 Covered
5 Not Extractable
2 Absent
after edits
8 Covered +4
1 Not Extractable -4
2 Absent
Four passages were rewritten to stand on their own. Two answers are still genuinely missing. That is a writing decision, not a defect. Counts are compared between runs and never turned into a percentage.