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Citations and sources

Sources are the pages an answer cites. Basiro keeps the raw answer, the brand mention, the cited domain and the cited URL apart.

Last updated 7 October 2026

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AI answersQuestions

  1. Open AI answers → Questions.
  2. Find the customer question. Use Only lost when the brand should have been the source and was not.
  3. Open AI answers → Raw answers to read the text the engine returned.
Raw answer
The text the engine returned for that question and sample.
Lost question
A question where the brand is missing, wrong, or not the cited source you intended.
Question table with your mention share and the top competitor.
The You column records a mention. Open Sources before you treat that row as a citation.

Cited domains and cited URLs

AI answersSources

A cited domain is the site an answer points to. A cited URL is the specific page. For a fix with a target URL, success means that URL appears in a later answer's cited URLs.

Sources table of sites cited in answers, with who wins there and whether the brand is named.
AI answers → Sources. Cited in counts answers that pointed at that site. Names you is a mention on that site's answers, not proof your URL was the citation.
What you seeWhat it means
Cited inHow many answers pointed at that site.
Who wins thereWhich brand the answers recommend when that site is the source.
Names youWhether those answers mention your brand. A mention is not the citation itself.

What to do next

If the intended page is missing, open To do and review a fix or a passage. Leave the opportunity open until a later measurement cites that URL.

What this does not prove

  • A brand mention is not a citation.
  • A crawler visit is not a citation.
  • Publishing the page is not resolution.
  • Basiro does not guarantee a citation or a first-place ranking.

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