Free Google AI Mode checker: does AI Mode cite your site?

What this AI Mode checker does

This AI Mode checker asks Google AI Mode each of your searches from the market you pick, the same way a customer would, and reads three things for every one of them:

• The AI Mode answer: whether AI Mode answers, whether it cites your site as a source and in which position, or whether it names your brand without a link, with the passage around your name and the sites it cites.
• The AI Overview: whether the regular Google results page shows an AI Overview for the same search and whether it cites you. The two often cite different pages.
• Your organic position: where your site ranks in the top 20 regular results, so you can tell a page that ranks but is not cited from one Google does not rank at all.

Below the table you get the sites Google’s AI cites most for your searches: the pages AI Mode builds its answers from, and the ones worth being on.

How AI Mode picks the sites it cites

AI Mode does not answer from the ten blue links of your search. It breaks the question into several related searches, which Google calls query fan-out, reads the results of all of them and writes one answer with the passages that answer each part best. That is why a page on page one can be missing from the answer while a forum thread or a comparison on another site is cited.

Questions also matter more than in classic search. People ask AI Mode full questions, such as “which CRM is best for a five-person team?”, so check the questions your customers would ask, not only your short keywords.

How to read the results

Start with the searches where you rank in the top 10 and AI Mode does not cite you. Google already considers your page relevant; its answer is quoting someone else. Compare your page with the sources it cites: they usually answer the question in the first lines, cover it more completely or come from a brand other sites mention.

Then look at the searches where AI Mode names you without a link. It knows your brand but takes the facts from other pages. Those pages, listed in your results, are where a mention of you or a better page of your own would turn the mention into a citation.

How to get cited in Google AI Mode

• Answer one clear question in the first paragraph of each page, in words AI Mode can quote as they are.
• Cover the follow-up questions too: price, alternatives, how it works and who it is for. Query fan-out searches for them.
• Make sure Googlebot can crawl the page and that no nosnippet or max-snippet rule stops Google from quoting it; our AI crawler checker shows both.
• Earn mentions on the sites AI Mode cites for your topic: the sources list in your results tells you which ones.

From a check to daily tracking

A check shows you today. Mencoro’s Google AI Mode tracker asks your questions in AI Mode every day, next to AI Overviews and your organic rankings, and shows which pages Google cites and how often you appear against your competitors, from €15 a month. To focus on the summary above the regular results, use the AI Overview checker; for what ChatGPT and Perplexity say about your brand, use the AI visibility checker.