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AI Citation Visibility

The measurable state of being the cited source inside an AI-generated answer — not merely present in the results. 3LA measures citation rate and sentiment across five LLMs: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Mistral. Critically distinct from AI Visibility: visibility means a page ranks or appears; citation visibility means the model quotes YOU as the authority.

The measurable state of being the cited source inside an AI-generated answer - not merely present in the results. 3LA measures citation rate and sentiment across five LLMs: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Mistral. Critically distinct from AI Visibility: visibility means a page ranks or appears; citation visibility means the model quotes YOU as the authority. Demonstrated live — a precisely defined, structured entity (e.g. a coined glossary term such as 'Classical SEO with a wig on') wins the AI Overview citation as the single authoritative source, while broad or ambiguous queries make models drift and hallucinate from weaker third parties. The entity is the mechanism: you can deliberately manufacture citation visibility by defining and structuring a term, rather than hoping for it. 16% of audited pages are completely invisible to AI systems despite ranking in classical search.

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