AI citation tracker
An AI citation tracker records whether AI engines cite your website, mention your brand without linking, or recommend competitors when buyers ask target prompts. RankEcho tracks this across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews at the prompt level - citation rate, mention rate, share of voice, and source domains - and then goes past tracking: each gap is classified by cause, a fix is generated, and the same prompt is re-tested on a schedule to record before and after movement.
What an AI citation tracker should measure
The signals worth tracking:
- Mentions and citations, recorded separately.
- Citation rate and share of voice against competitors.
- Engine coverage across the major answer engines.
- The source domains behind each answer.
Why a fixed prompt set matters
Tracking is only meaningful if the questions stay the same. Because the same prompt can produce different answers between runs, a tracker that holds the prompt battery fixed and re-runs it on a schedule separates a durable trend from day-to-day noise. A tracker that changes its prompts cannot tell you whether you improved or the question did.
Tracking is necessary but not sufficient
Knowing your citation rate does not tell you which change to make or whether it worked. That is the line between a tracker and a closed loop: RankEcho pairs tracking with a Fix Engine that turns each gap into a shippable change and a Proof Loop that re-tests the prompt afterward.
How RankEcho tracks and proves
RankEcho monitors your prompts across engines, records mentions, citations, share of voice, and sources, then recommends the first fix and verifies movement with a before-and-after re-test — so the tracker is the start of the work, not the whole of it.
Frequently asked questions
A mention names your brand in the answer; a citation is a clickable source link. A good tracker records both because engines differ in what they expose.
On a fixed cadence — weekly for most brands, tighter while shipping fixes — so movement is separated from variance.
No. Tracking measures; improvement comes from shipping fixes and verifying them, which is why RankEcho adds the fix-and-prove loop.