# Get Cited by AI: Show Me the Number
No-Hype Answer Engine Optimization for SaaS Founders and Site Owners

- Price: $12.99 (Kindle ebook)
- Level: Beginner
- Pages: 186
- Best for: Site owners measuring AI citations
- You finish with: A baseline citation scorecard, a monthly tracking loop, and pages AI actually quotes
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## What you get

You ask ChatGPT who's best in your space and it names three competitors, not you. Your buyers stopped Googling; they ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini now, and you have no idea if those answers mention you. This is the proof-driven system the whole AI-search shelf forgot: measure your AI-citation share in 20 minutes, run a monthly tracking loop wired into Google's Search Console AI report, rewrite pages so AI actually quotes them, make your site agent-readable with a real llms.txt, and prove the number moved. No hype, just the part of GEO that's real.

Sixteen other AI-search books sit on this shelf and none of them shows you a number. This one is the instrument they forgot. In Chapter 4 you run your first citation audit and see your real number today. By Chapter 6 you have a monthly tracking loop and you know which tools are lying to you. By Chapter 9 your pages are built to get quoted, your site is readable by AI agents, and the crawlers you actually want can reach you. By the last page you have a quarterly system that runs without the book. Built for people who own a site and have no patience for hype.

## Chapters

1. You're Invisible to the AI Your Buyers Now Ask: See why your competitors get named in AI answers while you find out by accident.
2. How AI Decides Who to Cite (and Why Your Google Rank Doesn't): Trace the four-step engine pipeline and learn which of three citation surfaces your goal lives in.
3. Signal vs Snake Oil: What Google Tells You to Ignore: Build a three-question filter that sorts any AEO tactic into real, myth, or unproven.
4. Your First Citation Audit, in 20 Minutes: Fill a baseline scorecard and state your real citation share versus your top competitor.
5. The Measurement Loop: Watch Your Citation Share Move: Turn the audit into a monthly loop and wire in Google's Search Console AI report honestly.
6. Which Tracking Tools Lie to You (and Which to Trust): Score any tool against a trust-verify-ignore rubric and cross-check it against your hand-collected truth.
7. Citation-Worthy: The Content AI Actually Quotes: Rewrite a page answer-first with liftable passages, then prove the citation gain on your scorecard.
8. llms.txt, Honestly: A Map for Agents, Not a Citation Hack: Write a real llms.txt with an H1, summary, and curated links, then validate it in Lighthouse.
9. Don't Block the Robots You Want: Curl-knock as each AI search bot and fix the CDN block silently killing your citations.
10. What a Citation Is Actually Worth: Build a citations-to-pipeline ROI model that separates buyer-intent value from vanity mentions.
11. When the Number Won't Move: Run a diagnostic that tells a fixable failure from a query sourced entirely off-site.
12. Your Quarterly Citation Operating System: Assemble every artifact into a measure-monthly, act-quarterly system with a seeded 90-day template.

## Free guides from this book

- [Are AI Visibility Tools Accurate? Trust, Verify, Ignore](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/are-ai-visibility-tools-accurate.md): Are AI visibility tools accurate? No engine ships a brand-mention API, so every tracker is guessing. A trust-verify-ignore rubric to grade any tool you buy.
- [How to Get Cited by ChatGPT (Answer-First Content)](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/how-to-get-cited-by-chatgpt.md): How to get cited by ChatGPT: put the answer in the first 50 words, add a comparison table, back every claim, then prove the citation moved on your scorecard.
- [How to Track Your AI Citations in 20 Minutes](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/how-to-track-ai-citations.md): Track your AI citations free by hand: build a 10-query, 3-engine scorecard, read your real citation share, and check it before you trust any paid tool.
- [What Is llms.txt? (And Does It Actually Help SEO)](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/what-is-llms-txt.md): What is llms.txt? A curated Markdown map at your site root that helps AI agents use your site. It does not get you cited. Here's how to build a real one.
- [Which AI Crawlers Should You Allow?](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/which-ai-crawlers-to-allow.md): Which AI crawlers to allow: the search bots (OAI-SearchBot, not GPTBot), why robots.txt isn't enough, and a curl knock test that catches the CDN block.