Glossary
AEO + SEO,
defined plainly.
The vocabulary b/cited uses across the dashboard, in briefs, and throughout the site. Short definitions, real examples, and what each term means for the way AI engines cite your site.
A
- AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)The practice of getting your site cited by AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Per…(read more)
- AI Gateway (Cloudflare AI Gateway)Cloudflare's proxy in front of LLM providers. Every AI call b/cited makes — embeddings, br…(read more)
- AI Overview (Google AI Overview)Google's AI-generated summary at the top of a search results page that synthesizes an answ…(read more)
- ai.txtA robots.txt-style file declaring whether you opt into AI training on your content. Useful…(read more)
- Authority ScoreA 0–100 score per topical cluster that captures how strongly your site owns the cluster's …(read more)
B
C
- Canonical URLThe page you've told search engines is the master version when multiple URLs serve similar…(read more)
- CitationWhen an AI answer engine names your domain as a source in the answer it generates. The cli…(read more)
- ClusteringThe process of grouping a project's Google Search Console queries into topical buckets so …(read more)
- Content BriefA structured outline for a new page — title, headings, target queries, entities, schema. W…(read more)
- Content GapA topic competitors rank for that you don't. The opportunity space — where you have the ri…(read more)
- Coverage DiffThe LLM's read on what's missing from your existing site coverage for a topical cluster. A…(read more)
- CSP (Content Security Policy)A header that tells browsers which sources of script, style, and other content are allowed…(read more)
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- ImpressionsThe number of times a query's result appeared on a Google Search results page, regardless …(read more)
- IngestionThe seven-step background workflow that pulls a project's last 90 days of Google Search Co…(read more)
- Internal LinkingLinks between pages on your own site. Distributes ranking authority, signals topical relat…(read more)
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S
- Schema MarkupStructured data added to a page via JSON-LD that tells search engines and LLMs what type o…(read more)
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization)The practice of structuring a site so it ranks well on traditional search engines. The fou…(read more)
- SERP (Search Engine Results Page)The page Google shows after a query. Used to be ten blue links; now it's a layered surface…(read more)
- Share of Voice (Share of Voice (SOV))Your slice of the total impressions for a topic or set of queries. A competitive metric — …(read more)
- Site Readiness AuditA 30+ check scan across nine categories — indexing, metadata, social, schema, AEO, interna…(read more)
- Structured DataThe broader category that schema markup belongs to. Any machine-readable annotation that t…(read more)
T
- Topical AuthorityThe concept of being recognized as the authoritative source on a specific subject. Distinc…(read more)
- Topical ClusterA group of search queries that share semantic intent. b/cited discovers them by embedding …(read more)
- Tracked PromptA question you've registered for b/cited to run periodically against ChatGPT, Claude, and …(read more)