AI Search & Answer Engines

LLM Citation

Definition

An LLM citation is a reference in an AI-generated answer to a specific source URL. Citations appear as inline links in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude with web access, Google AI Overviews and Copilot. Earning LLM citations requires both technical readiness (structured data, llms.txt, server-side rendering) and content patterns the models extract reliably.

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