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Semantic Landscape (Ultra)

For each question you monitor: the pages AI engines cite, whether those pages name you, your nearest page, and what to do next, with a map of all of it.

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Semantic Landscape (Ultra)

A brand reaches an AI answer in two ways: one of its pages is cited, or the pages the engine reads name it. The Semantic Landscape shows both for every question you monitor: what the AI is reading, whether you are in it, and what to change.

Available on Ultra and Enterprise, in Brand Protection → Semantic Landscape.

The map is a snapshot

Nothing on this tab updates by itself. It changes when someone on your team presses Recompute.

  • Computed N days ago sits beside the Recompute button. It is in normal text for up to 7 days, yellow from 8 to 14 days, and red from 15 days. Hover over it for the date and time.
  • A Recompute runs in the background and takes a few minutes. A banner under the title shows the stage it has reached, also after you reload the page.
  • Only one Recompute runs at a time. The button is held until it finishes.
  • If a Recompute fails, the map you had stays on screen with a message beside it.

What the AI reads for your questions

The table above the map has one row for each question you monitor, measured over the last 14 days of answers.

ColumnWhat it tells you
QuestionThe monitored prompt
You citedThe share of citations for this question that went to pages on your site
Named in sourcesOf the cited pages Vizzybl could read, how many name your brand, and how much of the citations those pages account for
Your nearest pageYour page closest in meaning to the question, with a closeness score (higher is closer)
VerdictOne reading of the row (below)
ActionThe one thing to do next

Verdicts

Each row gets the first verdict that applies, in this order. The thresholds are first settings and may be tuned, so every row shows the numbers behind its verdict.

VerdictWhenAction
No sourcesFewer than 20% of the answers cited any page: the engines answered from memoryNone
You are a sourceYour pages took 25% or more of the citationsKeep it fresh
Not enough readFewer than 10 of the cited pages could be readNone. Recompute to try again
Third-party territoryOther sites took 60% or more of the citations, and fewer than 30% of the pages read name youBuild outreach list
Close, not citedYour nearest page is as close to the question as the cited pages, but is not being citedImprove this page
Content gapYou have no page that close to the questionPlan a new page

A page that could not be read counts as unknown. It never counts as a page that does not name you.

Actions

  • Keep it fresh adds a reminder card to your Actions board for the page that is being cited.
  • Build outreach list adds one card listing up to 20 cited pages that do not name you: the places to get mentioned.
  • Improve this page and Plan a new page open a brief in the right panel, written from the question, the searches the engines ran, and the measured make-up of the cited pages. A brief is written once for each question per map; opening it again shows the same brief. From the brief:
    • Add to Actions board files it as a card that links back to this tab.
    • Work on it with Vizzy hands it to the assistant to refine with you.

Viewers see the table without the action buttons.

A question in detail

Click a row. The map narrows to that question: its AI answers, the pages cited for it, and your five nearest pages, joined by lines that carry the real closeness. The right panel lists:

  • the most-cited pages for the question: the site, how often each was cited, whether it names you, and whether it could be read;
  • the searches the engines ran, where the engine reports them;
  • how your nearest page compares with the cited pages on length, date, lists, statistics and schema.

Show all returns to the whole map.

How to read the map

Each point is a passage of text. Points near each other cover similar topics.

  • Blue points are your indexed content. Orange points are indexed competitor content.
  • Green points are pages AI engines cited for your questions in the last 14 days, whoever owns them.
  • Violet points are AI answers: the responses the engines gave to your monitored questions.
  • Size is how often a page was cited in the last 14 days. AI-answer points are all one size.
  • Shaded regions outline topic clusters.

Position is a 2D summary of meaning, good for seeing what sits together. For how close two things really are, use the closeness figures in the table and on the lines: they are measured in the full embedding space, not in the flattened picture.

Click a point for its details:

  • a green point shows the page, its site, how often it was cited, whether it names you, and whose page it is;
  • a violet point shows the question, the answer, the engine and the date the answer was collected. If an engine has not answered a question for two weeks, its last answer is shown fainter and says so;
  • one of your points shows its citations and its Distance to AI answer (lower is closer).

Pages that could not be read

At each Recompute Vizzybl reads the most-cited pages for each question from the public web, as VizzyblBot, and obeys each site's robots.txt. The line under the title counts what happened, for example "643 pages cited by AI in the last 14 days: 476 read, 136 could not be read, 31 PDF or video."

  • A site that refuses, or whose robots.txt says no, is listed as cited and not read. Vizzybl does not use services that get round a refusal.
  • PDFs and videos are listed, not read.
  • Some links from Gemini are redirects that cannot be resolved to a page. They are counted separately and not read.
  • A Recompute reads the 100 most-cited pages for each question, up to 1,200 pages in all and 800 not read before. Pages read in the last 7 days are reused, so a workspace with many questions fills in over two or three Recomputes. The line says how many were not reached.

The text of a cited page is kept for 7 days and then deleted.

Filters

Use the left panel to focus the map:

  • Overlays shows the competitor citation heatmap.
  • Ownership shows or hides your content and competitors'.
  • Source shows or hides indexed content, AI answers, and pages AI cites.
  • Content type shows or hides text and images. Images is unticked when the tab opens.
  • AI engine shows only the ticked engines' answers and the pages they cited, and sizes pages by those engines' citations. None ticked means all engines.
  • Minimum visibility hides rarely cited pages. It does not hide AI answers.
  • Search highlights matching pages.

The map zooms to fit the points that are showing.

Maps computed before the table

A map computed before the table was introduced shows the older Critical Gaps list and red regions instead, with Bridge This Gap drafting a brief for a gap. Press Recompute to get the table.

How it's computed

The map uses the same content embeddings as the rest of Vizzybl. Your own site must be indexed first, from the Content Index tab. Competitor sites you have indexed appear as orange points. AI answers come from your monitored prompts; answers to questions you no longer monitor are left off.

Press Compute map the first time, and Recompute to refresh. The new map replaces the old one for everyone on your team when it finishes.

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