Which websites do AI engines cite in my category?
Run your category prompts in each engine, collect every cited link and rank the domains by how often they appear. Engines that show links are telling you which pages shaped the answer. Google says AI features link to supporting pages, so the list is a map of where to be present.
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Engines that show their sources
Straight from the companies' documentation. Not every engine shows links in every answer.
AI answers link to supporting pages
Google says AI Overviews and AI Mode show links to supporting pages, and that a wider set may appear because of related searches.
AI features and your websitePerplexity surfaces and links indexed sites
Perplexity says PerplexityBot indexes sites so they can be surfaced and linked in its search results.
Perplexity crawlersChatGPT search draws on indexed sites
OpenAI says OAI-SearchBot surfaces websites in ChatGPT's search features.
Overview of OpenAI crawlersFive steps to do it yourself
Do it by hand with these steps, or hand the whole thing to Nova.
Run the category prompts
Ask your discovery and comparison prompts in each engine and save every answer.
Nova: runs your prompts across engines.
Collect every cited link
Copy each cited URL with the engine, prompt and date.
Nova: collects the citations automatically.
Group by domain and type
Group links by domain, and tag each as review site, directory, news, blog, forum or vendor.
Nova: groups and tags the domains.
Rank by frequency
Count how often each domain appears across prompts and engines.
Nova: ranks domains by frequency.
Decide where to be present
Mark domains where you are absent but rivals appear, and plan a move for each.
Nova: hands the gaps to the source-gap routine.
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Take it to NovaThe sources behind the answers
| Domain | Type | Appears (n) | Engines | You present? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [review-site].com | Review site | [N] | [N] | No |
| [blog].com | Blog | [N] | [N] | No |
| [forum].com | Forum | [N] | [N] | Yes |
Nova then updates the map each run, so you see which sources rise and fall.
Take this Maneuver into your own AI agent
Get citation-source-map.md, a ready-to-use skill file with a citation log, a domain tagging guide and a ranking table. Drop it into Claude, Cursor or any agent that reads SKILL.md files.
Skill file for Claude, Cursor and other agents
- A citation log template
- A domain type guide
- A ranked source table
Questions, answered.
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