AI Citation Loss Analyzer: why did AI answers stop citing your page?
Find the likely reason AI answers stopped citing a page.
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About the AI Citation Loss Analyzer
Your page used to appear in AI answers and now it does not. Enter it, and optionally the question and the page that is cited instead, and we check the usual causes: the page cannot be loaded, it is set to noindex or points elsewhere with a canonical, robots.txt or a firewall blocks AI crawlers, the content needs JavaScript, it looks out of date, it is hard to quote, it does not answer the question directly, the competitor's page is a better answer, or it misses topics the competitor covers. Each cause gets a likelihood, the evidence we found and the fix.
How it works
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Step 1
Enter the page that lost the citation.
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Step 2
Add the question it was cited for and the page cited now, if you know them. They make the diagnosis much sharper.
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Step 3
Fix the causes from the top: the most likely ones are listed first, with the evidence.
How likelihood is judged
Problems that stop AI crawlers reading the page (errors, noindex, blocks) are very likely causes. Signs that weaken a page against others (old dates, hard-to-quote text, a stronger competitor page) are likely or possible. If nothing on the page explains the loss, the cause is probably off the page: the answer now relies on other sources.
What it cannot see
We do not see your citation history or the answers themselves. Compare the date you noticed the loss with your own changes: a redesign, a migration, a new firewall, plugin or theme.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find the page cited instead?
Ask the same question in the AI assistant and open the sources the answer links to. Use the one that covers the same topic as your page.
Can a page lose citations without any change?
Yes. Answers change when competitors publish better pages, when your page ages, or when the assistant favours different sources. That is why the competitor comparison matters.
How long until citations come back?
After a fix, AI search crawlers need to visit again, which can take days to weeks. Updating the sitemap date and requesting indexing in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools helps.
Sources and checks
Rules last checked
The AI Citation Loss Analyzer follows these official pages:
- AI features and your website (developers.google.com)
- Robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, and X-Robots-Tag specifications (developers.google.com)
- How to specify a canonical URL with rel="canonical" and other methods (developers.google.com)
- Overview of OpenAI crawlers (developers.openai.com)
Scores, limits and suggestions marked "our checklist", "our measure" or "our suggestion" are ours, not Google's or the platform's. How our tools work
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