Do rankings still matter for AI citations?
Pairs your Search Console position against whether engines quoted you, on the same terms — and refuses where too few terms sit in a band to quote a rate.
What this checks
Pairs your Search Console position against whether engines quoted you, on the same terms. Refuses the comparison where too few terms sit in a rank band to quote a rate.
When to ask this
Best once you have some organic traffic and at least one AI-visibility measurement on file — useful across Some Traction and Heavy Traction stages. This is a live diagnosis over your own data, not a static report, so there's nothing to check before you've been measured at least once.
When this refuses
Suppresses the citation rate for any rank band holding fewer than 3 terms — a rate quoted over one or two terms is a coin flip dressed as a statistic, not a finding.
How to ask it in chat
"what is the relationship between classic top rankings and the chance of being cited"
What you'll get back
A direct answer computed from measurements already on file — no extra cost, no new data is purchased to answer this.
Do engines quote us, or the people who quoted us?
Reads the citation graph rather than your pages: what share of citations were yours, against publications, reviews and forums writing about your category.
Do reviews and forums change whether AI recommends us?
Classifies the sources engines actually drew on, and says plainly how much of the graph it could not classify.