AI citations are the external sources an AI engine references when it composes an answer, the pages it retrieved, read and trusted enough to base its recommendation on.
Why citations matter
Citations are the supply chain of AI answers. Control the citations, and you influence what millions of users are told. Studies of large citation samples consistently rank Reddit as the single most-cited domain, ahead of Wikipedia and every news site.
How to earn them
- Be present in the threads and listicles already cited for your prompts
- Publish original data, AI engines love citing numbers
- Structure your pages so a model can lift an answer in one clean passage
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Paul-Marie Hamon
Founder @ Readyt
Paul-Marie is the founder of Readyt, the Reddit growth platform for SaaS. He has generated 16K€+ in pre-sales in 2 months using nothing but Reddit, and now helps founders turn Reddit threads into their #1 acquisition channel.
