How does citation tracking know which page got cited?

Every prompt run extracts URLs from the engine response, classifies them as owned vs competitor, and stores the surrounding paragraph.

Intermediate Last updated 3 May 2026

When you run a tracked prompt, we ask Claude / OpenAI / Perplexity / Gemini for the answer plus a list of source URLs. v0.8 added citation source attribution: we extract every URL from the structured citations metadata AND from the prose, and split them into:

  1. Owned - URLs whose host matches your target domain (or any subdomain of it).
  2. Competitor - everything else.

For each URL we store the surrounding paragraph from the engine response. That paragraph is what the sentiment analyser sees and what the content-brief generator uses to understand the citation gap.

You can see owned + competitor citations on /app/prompts/{id} under each run. The counts show on the run summary (cited_url_count, owned_url_count). Pro and Agency tiers also get sentiment classification on each owned paragraph.

Was this helpful?