An AI citation tracker has to settle one thing first: what counts. My rule: an answer used a page if that page shows up in its cited sources, or, on ChatGPT, in the pages it looked up while answering.
The organic results that come back alongside an AI Overview are out. That's Google ranking pages, not the AI reading them. Padding the numbers with them would be easy, and dishonest as hell.
And a page the bots can't read is a page they can't cite. The free AI crawler test shows which AI bots your robots.txt lets in.


