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Isaiah Kim
Isaiah Kim

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CiteRank tracks whether answer engines cite your site

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CiteRank's commit 9435a68 fixed a layout defect in src/app/globals.css: prose width rules were leaving dead space beside the console rail. The fix removed those limits so content could fill its column.

CiteRank

The board

The board shows one row per buyer question and one column per answer engine. Each result distinguishes cited, named, and absent.

The board tracks whether an engine links your domain, names your brand without a link, or leaves you out. Its status line shows the last recorded answer date.

CiteRank, The main console: Weekly tracking of whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Claude cite your site, name your brand,

Free check

The Free check view presents a question field and a check control for a single prompt. It gives the console a direct way to inspect one answer before tracking it.

The control runs a one-off check and reports whether the answer cites, names, or omits the supplied site. CiteRank keeps that result separate from its weekly board.

CiteRank, Free check: Ahead of every paying refresh Somebody is sitting there waiting on a free check. A weekly refresh is not time-critical t

llms.txt

The llms.txt view explains the file format and shows the content that can be provided to answer engines. The page presents the document as a readable text artifact.

The view helps inspect whether a site has a clear machine-readable description. It keeps the document itself visible instead of reducing the check to a score.

CiteRank, llms.txt: Does an llms.txt get you cited? THE HONEST ANSWER Mostly, no. Ahrefs analysed 137,000 sites and found that 97% of publis

AEO tools

The AEO tools view presents structured tables for improving how a site appears in answer-engine results. Its controls organize the work around questions, sources, and answer visibility.

The page turns a missing citation into a concrete research task by showing the answer context around the result. It keeps cited, named, and absent states distinct.

CiteRank, AEO tools: One of the earliest movers, and the cheapest way into a standalone AEO tool from an established vendor: Lite is $29/mo f

How to rank

The How to rank view contains guidance for improving visibility in ChatGPT and related answer engines. Its sections explain how the board's result states differ.

The page connects a result to the source material an engine used. It makes the cited-source list part of the workflow instead of treating visibility as a single number.

CiteRank, How to rank: How to know whether any of it worked TWO TRAPS Measure before you change anything, then keep measuring on a fixed cadenc

The width fix

The defect lived in three selectors that applied the reading measure to content that already had a console column.

- .doc > section > p.doc > section > ul,
- .doc > section > ol.doc > section > h3 {
-   max-width: var(--measure);
- }
+ .doc > section > p.doc > section > ul,
+ .doc > section > ol.doc > section > h3 { }
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The same change removed the measure from band headers and ledger captions. I kept the full-width rule for tables because those artifacts use the whole column.

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