B
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44%
44% -- share of ai citations from page top for AI search citations (2023)
44% of AI citations reference content located within the first 30% of a page.
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44%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2023
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Princeton University
Primary
Tier B
https://writeseo.vercel.app/blog/why-content-invisible-ai-search ↗
Source Article
Why Your Content Is Invisible to AI Search (And How to Fix It)
Why Your Content Is Invisible to AI Search (And How to Fix It)
Your content ranks on Google. You get decent traffic. But ChatGPT never mentions you. Perplexity never cites you. Google AI Overviews skip your pages entirely. Here's why — and what to do about it.
The uncomfortable truth: AI search syst…
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Princeton University
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Princeton University study of 10,000+ AI-generated answers
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AI search citations: 44% share of ai citations from page top. Source: Princeton University (2023). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-citations-first-30-percent
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