A tracked prompt is a real question you want an AI assistant to answer with you cited. CiteTrack runs it against the engines you choose, on a schedule, and records whether you’re cited, mentioned or absent, plus your position and share of voice against named competitors.
Add one
- Go to CiteTrack AI → Citations and click Add prompt.
- Type the question the way a real person would ask it, e.g. “best WordPress AI analytics plugin” or “how do I track AI crawlers”.
- Enter your domain and your competitor domains (comma-separated) so CiteTrack can score share of voice.
- Pick the engines to run it against and a frequency (daily / weekly / monthly), then save.
What makes a good prompt
Track the questions a buyer actually asks before choosing, not your brand name (you’ll always “win” that). Mix intents: category questions (“best X for Y”), problem questions (“how to fix Z”), and comparison questions (“X vs Y”). Start with 5–15 high-value prompts rather than hundreds; you can expand once you see which ones move. Not sure what to ask? Use query fan-out discovery to generate the real questions in your niche.
Cost & cadence: each run spends a little of your own API credit (cents per prompt per engine). Daily on a few critical prompts plus weekly on the rest keeps spend low while catching changes fast.
No results, or a prompt won’t run?
- Every engine shows “absent”, that’s a real result, not a bug; it means you genuinely aren’t cited yet. Open the AEO/GEO fixes for the target page and re-check after a week.
- An engine shows an error, its API key is missing or out of credit. Fix it under Citations (see “Add your engine API keys”); a failed call is recorded as an error, never as “absent”.
- Nothing runs on schedule: WP-Cron may be disabled on your host; add a real server cron (see the install guide).