AI Sources Analysis

Every category has a citation hierarchy: a handful of domains that AI engines return to again and again when answering buyer questions. If those domains mention you favorably, you win by default; if they ignore you, no amount of on-site optimization fully compensates. This is topical authority as the engines actually compute it — not a theoretical metric, but observed citation behavior. Most brands have never seen this hierarchy because it only becomes visible when you aggregate thousands of real AI answers.

Geonimo rolls every citation from your tracked prompts up to the domain level, scores each domain's authority and classifies its type — corporate site, editorial publication, UGC platform. The result is a trust map of your category: you might find that 60% of citations go to five review sites, or that Perplexity leans editorial while ChatGPT favors community content. You can filter by provider and location to see how the source mix shifts across engines and markets.

First, earn placement: the dominant domains are your PR and outreach hit list, and Geonimo's GEO Outreach feature builds that queue directly from this data. Second, emulate: study what the most-cited domains do — format, depth, freshness — and apply it to your own pages to raise their citability. Third, monitor: when a new domain starts climbing the citation rankings, you'll see it early and can engage before competitors notice it exists.