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Using the Citations page

The Citations page is where AI tracking meets action. It shows you every source that AI models cite when answering your tracked prompts — and lets you engage on those sources directly.


You'll find it under AI Search → Citations in the sidebar.


Top Citations Bar Chart


Below the platforms section, a horizontal bar chart shows the top 10 most-cited domains across all your tracked prompts.


This gives you a quick visual of which domains AI models rely on most. If reddit.com dominates the chart, that tells you most AI answers are pulling from Reddit discussions — which is where your engagement will have the biggest impact.


You can use the filters above the chart to adjust the time period and models shown.



Top Cited Domains


Next to the bar chart, you'll see a Top Cited Domains card listing the most frequently cited domains with their citation counts.


This is the same data as the bar chart but in list format, making it easy to scan through domains and spot patterns. Look for:

  • Domains you can engage on — Reddit, Quora, forums
  • Domains you own — If your own domain appears, that's a good sign
  • Competitor domains — If competitor websites are being cited directly


Citation URL Table


This is the most detailed and actionable part of the page. It's a full table of every cited URL that CrowdReply has captured.


What each row shows:


  • URL — The specific page or thread being cited by AI models
  • Platform — Which website/domain the URL belongs to
  • URL type — The category of the source


Filtering and searching:


  • Search — Type to search for specific URLs, domains, or keywords
  • Platform filter — Filter to show only URLs from a specific platform (Reddit, Quora, etc.)
  • Pagination — Browse through all citations page by page



Taking action on citations


The Citations page is designed to flow directly into engagement. When you spot a high-value cited URL — especially a Reddit thread — here's the workflow:


  1. Identify the opportunity — Look for Reddit threads or forum discussions that AI models are citing for your key prompts
  2. Assess the impact — Threads with more citations across more AI models are higher impact
  3. Engage — Click through to create a task on that thread, posting a helpful comment that naturally mentions your brand
  4. Track results — Come back to the Citations page and your Overview dashboard over the following weeks to see if your citation coverage improves



How to prioritize


Not all citations are equally valuable. Focus your engagement on:


  • Reddit threads — These are the easiest to engage on and have the highest influence on AI answers
  • Threads cited by multiple AI models — If ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini all cite the same thread, engaging there impacts your visibility across all three platforms
  • Recent, active threads — Threads with ongoing discussion are more likely to be re-crawled by AI models
  • Threads related to your weakest prompts — Cross-reference with your Prompts page to find which prompts you have zero visibility on, then engage on the citations for those prompts

Updated on: 22/03/2026

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