B
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57%
57% -- ai citation rate for Best-list content (2026)
According to Neil Patel's content type performance survey, AI engines cite best-list content 57% of the time.
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57%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Neil Patel
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Tier C
https://rctrl.com/blog/faq-pages-for-aeo-position-zero-ai-answers ↗
Source Article
FAQ Pages for AEO: Position Zero in AI Answers
There's a strange paradox at the heart of FAQ pages in 2026. Google killed FAQ rich results in May, retired the Search Console API for FAQ data in August, and by every visible signal in Google's own tooling, FAQ schema is dead. Meanwhile, AI engines are citing FAQ-formatted content 41% of the time a…
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Neil Patel
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Best-list content: 57% ai citation rate. Source: Neil Patel (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/best-lists-citation-57pct
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