Community citations are the sources an AI engine pulls from where a community creates the content: Reddit, Quora, forums and review sites. You cannot publish them yourself, which is exactly why they carry weight with engines.
Community sources are cited far more heavily than most marketing teams expect, and they are the hardest channel to influence because you do not own the page.
The instinct is to dismiss them as noise. That is a mistake: a single recurring thread can be the reason a competitor keeps appearing in answers where you do not.
Citations are classified by channel, so community pages sit in their own view rather than being mixed into a flat link list.
Per prompt, engine and country, so you can tell a one-off from a source the engines return to.
A cited thread is not the same as a thread that mentions you. Pages can be scanned to confirm whether your brand appears on them at all.
CSV export of every community URL, so participation effort goes where the citations already are.
Who it's for. Marketers who suspect their category is being decided in community discussion rather than on vendor websites, and want to find out where.
Anywhere a community contributes the content: Reddit, Quora, forums, review sites and similar. We use "Community" rather than "UGC", because UGC misleads people into thinking the brand has to create the content itself.
They read as independent. An engine looking for validation weighs a discussion among practitioners differently from a vendor landing page.
Yes. Cited pages can be scanned to check whether your brand actually appears, so you can tell a mention from a citation that happens not to involve you.
Yes, it has its own view and its own set of tools. See the Reddit AEO page.
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