Cited sources in AI answers
Chapter 6
Continued from Reasoning data
Cited sources are the pages AI answers cite for your market, which the book treats as the list of places to get listed and described accurately.
Defined in Chapter 6: Campaign Research: The Five Datasets That Decide GEO and AEO Strategy of LLM Mastery: How AI Recommends Brands for LLM Domination.
Also called citation dataset and citation list.
What are cited sources?
Cited sources are the pages AI answers cite for your market, which the book treats as the list of places to get listed and described accurately.
Chapter 6 says to rank sources by how often the answers cite them across the whole prompt bank and to work down the list in that order, and Chapter 14 makes working the citation list its third step.
Related terms: Citation share, The five datasets, Off-page signals and Listicle frameworks.
Where does the book define cited sources?
Chapter 6, Campaign Research: The Five Datasets That Decide GEO and AEO Strategy, defines it:
Every source an answer cites is a place the machines demonstrably trust for your market, which makes the citation list your placement target list.
Which other chapters use cited sources?
Chapter 8: Winning the Retrieval Layer, Chapter 11: Off-Page Signals LLMs Trust, Chapter 13: Measuring LLM Domination, Chapter 14: The Domination Playbook and Take Action use cited sources too.