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Citation Gaps

Automatic analysis of your visibility gaps, with concrete recommendations for action.

What Are Citation Gaps?

Citation Gaps is an analysis tool that checks cited pages for your brand and competitors and turns gaps into content recommendations. It shows which cited pages matter for your topic, whether your client appears there, and where competitors are more visible.

Where to Find Citation Gaps

You can find the tool under Tools → Citation Gaps in the dashboard sidebar.

How Does the Analysis Work?

The Citation Gaps analysis runs in three phases:

Collect sources: ucited.ai identifies cited URLs and relevant sources from your current answers.
Check URLs directly: the pages are fetched and checked for whether your client or competitors appear in the HTML/text.
Derive content actions: the result is recommendations such as “what to create next,” prioritized topics, and supporting source evidence.

Brand on page reports whether your brand, or a link to your website, is on the fetched page. This is independent of whether the AI answer names your brand or lists the page as a Citation or Source. A Citation has a confirmed evidence link in the answer text; a Source appears in the source list without that confirmation. On the Citations page, each page counts once per answer as a reference. All shows citations and sources together. Pages that could not be fetched provide no verdict.

Understanding Results

The analysis results are presented across several tabs:

Overview: summary of the most important gaps, priorities, and next actions.
Sources: cited pages with Brand on page (Yes or No) and Competitors on page. Open a result to read the matching text.
Content: concrete suggestions for what to create or improve.
History: previous analyses so you can track developments and recurring gaps.

Citation Gaps analysis with findings and recommendations

Progress and Status

While the analysis is running, you will see a progress bar with the current status. The analysis typically takes a few minutes. If a phase fails or produces no usable results, you can retry the affected phase.

Note

The analysis requires sufficient data. If you have just set up prompts and competitors, it may take a few days before enough data is available for meaningful recommendations.

Implementing Recommendations

The generated recommendations are directly actionable. Typical recommendation types:

Close content gaps: Create content on topics where competitors are visible but you are not
Expand presence on third-party sites: Get your brand onto frequently cited pages
Optimize existing content: Improve pages that are cited but not yet optimally prepared for AI models
Track new prompts: Expand your monitoring to cover topic areas that are not yet included

Practical Tip

Work through the recommendations from top to bottom. They are sorted by priority. Start with the actions that have the greatest impact on your visibility.

Next Steps

Prompt Research: Discover new prompts that are relevant to your industry.
Improving Visibility: Practical strategies for more AI visibility.