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AI search glossary: what "AI visibility" means

AI visibility shows whether tracked AI answers mention your client or cite their pages. It is measured separately from search rankings and website visits.

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How it is measured

Scheduled prompts track mentions and citations in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. Google AI Overviews and AI Mode are tracked separately by keyword. These are sampled answers to test questions, not access to anyone’s private conversations.

Three signals

Read each signal separately. A crawler request, a citation and a referral visit measure different events.

Three examples · three separate measurements

Crawler request
An AI service requests a page.

The page was requested. This does not prove a citation.

Citation
An answer links to the client’s page as a source.

The page is cited. This does not prove anyone visited it.

Referral visit
A visitor arrives through a link from an AI service.

A visit is recorded, separately from citations and crawler requests.

What it is not

AI visibility is not search traffic, and it is not a guarantee. Answers can change between runs. Improving readable HTML gives services a page they can access; it does not guarantee that they will choose it as a source.

A crawler visit, a citation and a referral visit answer three different questions.

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