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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
What you'll do
- Open an answer and read the raw text.
- See which domains and URLs were cited.
- Mark a lost question when your brand should have been the source and was not.
Answers, raw answers and lost questions
The raw answer is the text the engine returned. A lost question is one where the brand is missing, wrong, or not the cited source you intended.
Cited domains and cited URLs
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.
A brand mention is not a citation. A crawler visit is not a citation. Publishing the page is not resolution.
What the result means
You can tell whether the engine cited your domain, a competitor, or a third-party page. You should not treat a mention as that proof.
Important distinctions
- Basiro does not guarantee a citation or a first-place ranking.
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