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how to get cited by AI?
AI systems increasingly choose what to cite based on clarity, authority, structure, and topical relevance — so brands must build for machine-readable trust, not just human-readable SEO.
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude don't rank ten blue links — they summarize an answer and cite the few sources they trust. Winning that citation is a different discipline: direct-answer writing, entity authority, schema and structured data, llms.txt, WebMCP, and digital PR working together.
The companies establishing this position now will own their category inside the answer engines for years. The window is open — and narrowing.