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AI Citability Checker

Most AI visibility tools tell you whether you're already being mentioned. This one checks the thing you control: whether your page is written so an answer engine can lift a passage and quote it accurately.

Plain text works too — lines under 90 characters with no ending period are treated as headings.

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Citability score · heuristic, not an official metric

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What This Measures

Five Traits That Make a Passage Quotable

AI answer engines don't quote pages — they quote passages. A passage gets picked when it stands alone, answers directly, and can be trusted. That's what these checks look at:

  • Answer-first opening — the answer inside the first two sentences, not after a warm-up
  • Question headings — headings phrased the way people actually search
  • Extractable passages — paragraphs short enough to lift whole
  • Concrete evidence — numbers and named specifics beat vague claims
  • No filler — throat-clearing dilutes the quotable part

An honest caveat

No AI provider publishes a citability metric, and anyone claiming to measure one precisely is guessing. This scores observable writing traits that make extraction easier — it's an editing aid, not a prediction of whether ChatGPT will cite you.

Pair it with valid structured data and real authority. Structure gets you quotable; trust gets you quoted.

Our data: 48% of AI citations don't rank top-10 →

FAQ

AI Citability Questions

What makes content citable by AI?
Answer engines lift short, self-contained passages that directly answer a question. What helps most: answering in the first two sentences, headings phrased as real questions, paragraphs short enough to quote whole, concrete numbers instead of vague claims, and no filler around the useful part.
Is there a real AI citability score?
No. No provider publishes one, and anyone claiming to measure it exactly is guessing. This tool scores observable traits that make a passage easy to extract — treat it as an editing aid, not a ranking prediction.
Do question headings help with AI search?
They mirror how people phrase queries. "How much does SEO cost?" followed by a direct answer creates a clean question-and-answer pair that's easy to match and quote. A heading reading "Pricing" gives an engine far less to work with.
Does this replace schema markup?
No — different problems. Schema tells a machine what your page represents; writing structure decides whether a passage can be lifted accurately. Do both.

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