Cited·Index · Reference
Glossary
Plain definitions of the terms used across CitedIndex — each one written to be quoted, and linked to the tools it describes.
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A
- AI Overviews
- Google's generated answer block above the organic results, which cites a handful of pages instead of ranking ten. A page can be cited without ranking, and can rank without being cited.
- AI rank tracking
- Measures where a brand's citation or mention sits, and what share of the answer space it holds, inside AI-generated responses over time — extending classic SEO rank tracking to AI Overviews, AI Mode and chat answers that have no fixed position to rank in.
- AI visibility monitoring
- Tracks how often and how prominently a brand is named or cited in AI-generated answers from engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, instead of tracking a rank position in a results page.
- API
- A documented set of endpoints that lets other software pull an AI-visibility tool's citation, mention, or ranking data directly, rather than an operator reading it off a dashboard by hand.
B
- Brand monitoring
- Brand monitoring tracks how often, where, and how favorably a specific brand's name is mentioned inside AI-generated answers from tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, a signal distinct from citations, which are the sources an answer links to rather than name-mentions of the brand.
C
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI's conversational AI, built on GPT models and reached at chatgpt.com or via API, answers in a single generated response rather than a ranked list of links, making it one of the AI surfaces that brand-visibility tools measure for mentions.
- Claude
- Anthropic's family of large language models, reached via claude.ai or the Claude API, and one of the AI engines that GEO and AI-visibility tools test for brand mentions and citations alongside ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.
- Content optimization
- Analyzes web copy for structure, readability, keyword use, and citable evidence, then recommends or rewrites it to rank in traditional search and get quoted by engines like ChatGPT and AI Overviews, rather than just tracking whether that already happens.
G
- Gemini
- Powers Google's AI assistant and Search's AI Overviews, and is the multimodal large-language-model family that AI-visibility tools track brand mentions across alongside ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity.
- GEO & Content Optimization
- Adjusts a page's structure, phrasing, and cited evidence so a generative engine — ChatGPT, Gemini, Google's AI Overviews — quotes or cites it directly inside a synthesized answer, rather than aiming for a ranked blue-link position.
P
- Perplexity
- An AI-powered search engine that answers a query in real time with a single synthesized, cited response instead of a ranked list of links, built by Perplexity AI on its own Sonar model plus selectable backends like GPT and Claude.
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