See where Google and Bing AI answers cite you

Google and Bing now answer many searches with an AI summary at the top of the page. In Google these are AI Overviews and AI Mode; in Bing they are Copilot and Bing's AI answers. Each summary links to a few pages as its sources. A site that is linked there gets about twice the clicks of one that isn't, so it's worth knowing which of your pages make it in.

The AI answers card at the bottom of the Performance page shows three things:

• Google AI Overviews and AI Mode: how often Google showed your pages inside those answers, and which pages.
• Bing and Copilot: how often their AI answers cited your pages, which pages, and the searches the AI made before citing you.
• Blog AI's weekly checks: for the questions you track in AI visibility, how many answers cited you this week compared with the week before.

Why you upload a file

Google and Bing show these numbers in their own dashboards, but neither lets other apps read them yet. Until they do, you download the report and upload it to Blog AI, which takes a couple of minutes. Blog AI never changes anything on your site or in your Google or Bing account.

Everything that comes from an upload is labelled with the day you uploaded it and the dates it covers, so you always know how fresh it is.

Upload the Google report

1. Open Search Console. Go to Google Search Console and choose your site.
2. Open the AI report. Under Performance, open the report for AI Overviews and AI Mode (Google calls it the generative AI report).
3. Pick the dates. The last 3 months is a good start. Open the Pages tab.
4. Export it. Click Export, then Download CSV. If you get a .zip file, open it and use the Pages file (the Dates file works too, and adds a chart).
5. Upload it to Blog AI. On the Performance page, find AI answers, click Upload the report under Google, choose the file, set the same dates you picked in Search Console, and click Upload.

Google's AI report counts times shown: each time one of your pages appeared as a source in an AI answer. It has no clicks or searches, so Blog AI can't show those.

Upload the Bing report

Open Bing Webmaster Tools, choose your site and open AI Performance. Set List by to Pages and download the table as a CSV file. Then do the same with Grounding queries (the searches the AI made before it cited you). Upload each file under Bing and Copilot on the AI answers card.

Bing's report counts citations: each time an AI answer linked to one of your pages.

If the upload is refused

Blog AI tells you why in plain words. The usual reasons:

• It's the normal Performance report. That report has clicks and positions, and Blog AI already reads it from Google for you. Upload the AI Overviews and AI Mode report instead.
• It's the other search engine's file. Choose the other report at the top of the upload box.
• It's a spreadsheet, not a CSV. Download it again as CSV, or open it and save it as CSV.
• None of the pages are on your site. Check you exported the report for this site.

Rows for another site, or rows Blog AI couldn't read, are left out, and the message says how many. Files over 2 MB are refused: export a shorter date range.

Suggestions on your Actions list

When Blog AI's weekly checks show a pattern, your Actions list says what to do about it. Both are free to open; a refresh from the post page uses credits as usual.

• AI answers mention you but rarely cite your post. Answers to one of your tracked questions name your business, but link to other sites as their sources. AI assistants link to pages they can quote, so add your own figures or a worked example to the post.
• Another site is cited for your question, not your post. Over the last 4 weeks no answer cited your site, and one other site was cited again and again. Read their page and add what it has that yours doesn't.

These need at least 3 checked answers for the question in the last 4 weeks, and a post of yours on the same question. A question with no post of yours is a new post idea, not a fix.

On the Results page

The Results page shows Cited in AI answers under Behind the scenes: how many answers to your tracked questions cited your pages in the last 4 weeks, and the totals from your latest uploads.

Good to know

• AI answers change from one search to the next. Compare a few weeks rather than reading too much into one.
• Uploading a new file doesn't delete the old one straight away: Blog AI keeps your last 6 uploads of each report and shows the newest. Click Remove under a file to delete it.
• Google's AI numbers are also counted in your normal Google impressions on the Performance page. The AI report is the only place that separates them out.