Citation source map
The set of URLs an AI engine actually pulled from when answering a question about your category. Usually not your site — and often your competitors’ blogs.
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Retrieval crawler
A bot that fetches pages in real time to answer a question being asked right now — as opposed to a training crawler, which collects text for a future model. Blocking the wrong one removes you from AI answers entirely.
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Answer volatility
How much an AI answer changes when you ask the identical question again. Measured as overlap between runs. In ten WordPress plugin categories it ranged from 100% to 40%.
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Generative engine optimization (GEO)
Getting a product named in the answer an AI engine gives, rather than ranked in a list of links. Related to SEO, but measured differently and won by different means.