AI Citation Readiness Scorer

How to use the citation readiness scorer

1. Enter the page you want assistants to recommend, or paste its source.
2. Look at the highlighted text first. Green sentences carry a figure, a named thing or a date and can be quoted as they stand. Red sentences are claims any competitor could make. Amber sentences contain a fact but open with “it” or “this”, so they lose their meaning when quoted alone.
3. Use “Copy sentences to rewrite” and work through the red list. For each one, ask what evidence sits behind the claim and write that instead.
4. Check the attribution table. A missing author, date or organisation is a five-minute fix that applies to every page built on the same template.
5. Run the page again. Then test it with a real prompt in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity after they have had time to recrawl.

Why generated answers quote some pages and skip others

A generative engine does not rank pages and hand over a list. It retrieves passages, a few sentences at a time, and writes an answer from them. A passage is useful to it only if it says something specific. “We offer high quality services at competitive prices” gives the engine nothing to say. “A technical SEO audit takes two weeks and covers 170 checks, priced from PKR 35,000” gives it three facts it can repeat and attribute.

Most business websites are written almost entirely in the first style. That is why a company with years of real work behind it can be absent from assistant answers while a directory page that simply lists facts about it gets cited.

What counts as quotable here

• Figures with units: prices, durations, counts, percentages, sizes.
• Named things: people, companies, products, tools, places, standards.
• Dates: when something was published, measured, launched or changed.
• A sentence that stands alone: between eight and forty-five words, naming its own subject.

What counts against a page

• Generic claims: the tool carries a list of around fifty stock marketing phrases. A sentence that uses one and contains no fact is marked red.
• Dependent sentences: retrieval works on passages, so a sentence that leans on the one before it arrives without its meaning.
• No attribution: an engine choosing between two sources prefers the one it can name and date.
• Text drawn by JavaScript: most AI crawlers read the raw HTML only.

What this tool cannot tell you

• The score is a working heuristic. No engine publishes how it selects sources, and none uses this score.
• It cannot check whether your facts are true, or whether other websites agree with them. Consistency across the web matters as much as the page itself.
• Entity detection is based on capitalisation, so it misses names written in lower case and may pick up capitalised headings.
• It analyses English and Roman-script text. Urdu-script pages are read, but the generic phrase list is English.

Related tools and services

For the rewrites, entity markup and the off-site work, see the GEO service.