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Why ChatGPT doesn't cite your site: 5 technical causes you can check in 10 minutes Marketing

Why ChatGPT doesn't cite your site: 5 technical causes you can check in 10 minutes

Almost all GEO advice is about how to write. But across dozens of sites we analysed, the reasons an AI assistant doesn't cite a page are nearly always five others, and they're all technical: the engine doesn't know you published, you're blocking the very crawler that would cite you while believing you're protecting yourself, your author is a different person on every article, your figures have no source, and your content has nothing worth lifting.

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