Vendor and first-party agreement

These bands describe relative disagreement between vendor traffic and Google Search Console. They do not certify accuracy.

High confidence: disagreement below: 15.00%
Medium confidence: from the high boundary up to: 40.00%
Low confidence: disagreement above: 40.00%

Visibility index weights

The versioned index combines normalized search visibility, citation rate and AI-referral traffic. Search visibility uses keyword volume weighting. Missing inputs are excluded and the remaining weights are renormalized. They are never filled with zero.

Weights version: v1
Search visibility: 0.4
Citation rate: 0.4
AI-referral traffic: 0.2

Measurement floors and thresholds

Each surface needs enough observations on both sides of a change. Crossing a threshold describes movement; it does not establish what caused it.

Citation window floor (days): 35
Search observations per side: 3
Citation checks per side: 4
Traffic baseline clicks (or impressions): 50
Traffic baseline impressions (or clicks): 500
Verified crawler baseline site-days: 14
Verified page fetches across baseline and window: 5
Relative movement threshold (percent): 10.0
Search movement threshold (positions): 2

What is not measured

Checks cover the sampled prompts, engines and dates. They do not measure every AI answer, guarantee a citation or prove that a change caused traffic to move. A missing sample is not a zero.

Claims ledger

These are the eligible feature statements, with their feature references and the work that owns them.

Know what to change for search and AI answers, and see whether it worked.

F11, F13, F18, F27, F33, F34, F36 · G0-T6, G1-T4, G3-T1, G2-T5c, G2-T2, G2-T3, G2-T4
CiteSonar turns your Search Console, analytics and AI-answer checks into a ranked list of changes, each with its receipts. You apply the change; we check it went live and measure what moved.

F11, F13, F18, F27, F33, F34, F36 · G0-T6, G1-T4, G3-T1, G2-T5c, G2-T2, G2-T3, G2-T4
See it. Change it. Check it.

F11, F13, F18, F27, F33, F34 · G0-T6, G1-T4, G3-T1, G2-T5c, G2-T2, G2-T3
CiteSonar never writes to your site.

F33, F34 · G2-T2, G2-T3
Figures show their source and how fresh they are.

F26 · G2-T5d
Metered actions show their price before you click.

F32 · G0-T4, G2-T5c
Outcomes read improved, flat, declined, confounded, or not enough data yet.

F36 · G2-T4
Your Google data, read-only

F11, F13 · G0-T6, G1-T4
When you connect a site, CiteSonar asks Google for read-only access to that site's Google Search Console and Google Analytics data. We use it only to show your search and traffic figures, rank the changes worth making, and measure whether a change you made moved clicks and visits. We never change anything in your Google account, never sell the data or use it for advertising, and never use it to train AI models. You can disconnect at any time.

F11, F13 · G0-T6, G1-T4
Weekly checks on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini

F18 · G3-T1
Plain terms, priced up front.

F32 · G0-T4, G2-T5c, G4-T5
Start with a free page grade. Plans and prices are on the pricing page.

F74 · G4-T6, G4-T5
Free

F74 · G4-T6
Price shown before you click

F32 · G0-T4, G2-T5c
Read-only, disconnect any time

F11, F13 · G0-T6, G1-T4
One loop, in three verbs.

F18, F27, F33, F34, F36 · G3-T1, G2-T5c, G2-T2, G2-T3, G2-T4
Each step below is the product screen with example data loaded: what the answers say, what to change, and what moved after you changed it.

F18, F27, F33, F34, F36 · G3-T1, G2-T5c, G2-T2, G2-T3, G2-T4
See it.

F18 · G3-T1
Which answers cite you, prompt by prompt.

F18 · G3-T1
Add the prompts your customers ask. Every week CiteSonar checks them on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini and keeps the receipt.

F18 · G3-T1
Change it.

F27, F33, F34 · G2-T5c, G2-T2, G2-T3
What to fix first, and why.

F27, F33, F34 · G2-T5c, G2-T2, G2-T3
Get a ranked list of changes for your own pages. Each comes with its receipts and a draft you apply yourself. CiteSonar never writes to your site.

F27, F33, F34 · G2-T5c, G2-T2, G2-T3
Check it.

F34, F36 · G2-T3, G2-T4
Did it move?

F34, F36 · G2-T3, G2-T4
Once you ship, CiteSonar checks the change went live, then reads clicks, visits and citations against the weeks before. Outcomes read improved, flat, declined, confounded, or not enough data yet.

F34, F36 · G2-T3, G2-T4
Every prompt, every engine.

F18 · G3-T1
One run for the example workspace, each answer filed with a receipt.

F18 · G3-T1
A new receipt every week.

F18 · G3-T1
Each check is filed with what it saw. Lay eight weeks side by side and you can point to the week the answer started naming you.

F18 · G3-T1
Word for word, as your customers ask it.

F18 · G3-T1
ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini.

F18 · G3-T1
When the check ran, to the minute.

F18 · G3-T1
The words of the answer, kept as returned.

F18 · G3-T1
The URL it cited, yours or another site's.

F18 · G3-T1
Cited or not cited, filed next to last week's.

F18 · G3-T1
CiteSonar shows evidence, not proof. When a number moves after you make a change, we show what moved and when, and we say plainly when there is not enough data to tell.

F36 · G2-T4
CiteSonar never writes to your site. It drafts the change, you apply it, and we read your page to check it went live.

F33, F34 · G2-T2, G2-T3
Connecting Google asks for two read-only scopes: webmasters.readonly for Search Console and analytics.readonly for Google Analytics. Neither lets CiteSonar change anything in your Google account, and you can disconnect at any time.

F11, F13 · G0-T6, G1-T4
The Google access and refresh tokens you grant are encrypted before they are stored, with a key kept outside the database. A copy of the database alone does not hold them in readable form.

F11, F13 · G0-T6, G1-T4
You can export your data and delete your workspace yourself, with no email to us first.

F77, F62 · G2-T5e, G4-T3
See daily Search Console data and its available history.

F11 · G0-T6, G1-T4
See analytics sessions with AI referrals identified separately.

F13 · G1-T4
Review ranked next moves with receipts and ready-to-apply drafts.

F27, F33 · G2-T5c, G2-T2
Check whether a change went live and inspect its before-and-after verdict.

F34, F36 · G2-T3, G2-T4
Check whether sampled AI answers cite your site.

F18 · G3-T1
Inspect the raw-answer receipts behind citation checks.

F18 · G3-T1
See the credit price before running a metered action.

F32 · G0-T4, G2-T5c
Inspect source and freshness stamps alongside figures.

F26 · G2-T5d