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Coverage & Citation Analysis

Audit your prompt coverage across intent and funnel stages, then understand citation sources and quality mix.

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Coverage & Citation Analysis

These views help you audit what you're monitoring and where AI platforms get their information — two complementary inputs to your visibility strategy.

Prompt Coverage Matrix

The Prompt Coverage Matrix audits the composition of your own monitored prompt set so you can spot blind spots in your data-acquisition strategy. It maps every active prompt onto a 3 × 3 grid:

  • X-axis: Brand specificity — Unbranded → Competitive → Branded
  • Y-axis: Funnel depth — Top → Middle → Bottom

Each of the 9 cells shows the prompt count for that bucket, scaled by size (number of prompts) and fill intensity (share of your total). Empty cells render with a dashed outline so coverage gaps are obvious.

The four corner quadrants

QuadrantPositionWhat it means
DiscoveryTop-leftTop-of-funnel × Unbranded. Awareness-stage queries where users seek category answers without naming any brand.
AwarenessTop-rightTop-of-funnel × Branded. Users introducing themselves to your brand — "what is X?", "tell me about X".
Conversion GapBottom-leftBottom-of-funnel × Unbranded. High-intent buyers shopping the category without naming brands — a major opportunity surface.
Loyalty / RetentionBottom-rightBottom-of-funnel × Branded. Decision-stage queries from users who already know you — pricing, signup, support.

Reading the chart

  • Coverage badge in the header shows X / 9 cells covered. Aim for breadth — the more cells with prompts, the more complete your visibility surface.
  • Imbalance warning appears when a single cell holds more than 50% of your prompts — a sign you're over-concentrated on one slice of the funnel.
  • Hover an empty cell for a tailored prompt-suggestion tooltip explaining what's missing.
  • Filter chips above the chart let you narrow the matrix by any custom tag dimension (campaign, product line, etc.) to audit coverage within a slice.

Citation sources

The citation sources table shows the top domains that AI platforms reference when responding to your prompts.

Each source includes:

  • Domain with favicon and external link
  • Source type — Classified as Editorial (professional journalism), UGC (Reddit, Quora, Stack Overflow, YouTube), Corporate (company and brand websites, including your own domain), Competitor (tracked competitor domains), or Other (government, educational, and reference/utility sites)
  • Citation count and percentage share
  • Sentiment and Trend (paid plans) — The average brand sentiment of the AI answers that cite the source, from -100 to +100, and how it moved over the period. The bar's length is the score: red below 40, amber from 40 to 59, green from 60. A score appears once at least 3 of those answers were scored. Until then the column shows a dash
  • Compare button — Opens a comparison view against your content

On the Ultra and Enterprise plans, the pages listed under a source, and every row of the Unique URLs list, also have Add to outreach. It puts the page's publisher on your Outreach board and looks for a contact the publisher has published. See Citation Outreach.

Source type distribution

At the top of the table, chips show the percentage breakdown across source types. This tells you what kind of content AI platforms trust for your category.

Source TypeExamplesWhat it means
EditorialForbes, TechCrunch, BBC, ReutersAI trusts professional publications for your topic
UGCReddit, Quora, YouTube, MediumCommunity content influences AI responses
CorporateCompany and brand websites, including your own domainAI is citing vendor-owned pages for your topic
CompetitorPages from your tracked competitor domainsAI prefers competitor content for your target queries
Other.gov, .edu, Wikipedia, reference and utility sitesInstitutional and reference sources carry weight
OtherEverything elseGeneral web sources

Citation quality mix

A pie chart showing the overall distribution of citation types across all your monitored prompts. Track this over time to see if your optimization efforts shift the mix toward more editorial or domain-specific citations.

Cited passages

The Cited passages panel sits under the citation sources table. It shows the part of a page an AI engine quoted when it answered your prompts, so you can see what won the citation and not only which page did.

It covers the engines that say which part of a page they used:

  • Gemini — the Gemini web app marks the passage it quoted. Each row shows how the passage opens and the words it ends with.
  • Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode — each row shows the snippet Google displays beside the source, labelled Snippet shown.

Other engines cite pages without saying which part, so they do not appear in this panel. Passages are collected going forward: dates before collection began show none.

Two views

  • Your pages — passages quoted from your own domain. These are the parts of your site AI engines rely on, so keep them accurate and current.
  • Pages cited instead of you — passages quoted from every other site, most-quoted first.

Each row shows the passage, the page, the engine, how many of your prompts it was quoted for, how many answers quoted it in the selected dates, and when it was last quoted. A Gemini row also carries a format label read from the passage itself: Table, List, Contents or Text, plus Price when the passage states a price.

What you can do with a row

  • View on page — opens the page. For a Gemini passage your browser scrolls to the passage where it can find the text.
  • Add to Action Board — files the passage as a card on your Actions Board, with the prompt, the page and the passage.
  • Draft a better answer — on pages cited instead of you. It opens Content Optimization with a brief. Enter the page of yours that should carry the answer, choose Analyze, then Draft a better answer. The draft answers the prompt directly, near the top, in the same format. The quoted passage is shown to you for reference and is not sent to the drafting model.

Viewers see the panel without the action buttons.

What each plan sees

PlanYour pagesPages cited instead of you
FreeEvery passageThe page, the engine and the counts. The passage itself is locked: choose Reveal the passages that beat you to upgrade
Pro, Ultra, EnterpriseEvery passageEvery passage

Which engines appear depends on the engines your plan monitors. Gemini is on every plan. Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode are on Ultra and Enterprise.

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