Articles about "AI search citations"

AI Mode is Google's conversational search, launched at I/O 2025. Sites are cited from the same index as regular search — here is the checklist to become citable.

PerplexityBot builds the index behind Perplexity citations and honors robots.txt. Perplexity-User fetches pages for people's questions and generally ignores it. Blocking the wrong one costs you traffic.

E-E-A-T is not a score, but it decides which pages get cited: build experience, expertise, authority, and above all trust, and AI engines notice.

You.com's AI answers blend search, YouWrite and its own index — but its citation rules are different from ChatGPT or Perplexity. Here is how to earn a mention.