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The 31-Point Citation Readiness Checklist: What Makes AI Actually Cite Your Content

We track AI citations across hundreds of brands at Writesonic. One pattern keeps repeating: pages ranking in Google’s top 3 get passed over by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini in favor of competitors sitting at position 8 or lower. Not because the…