AI Citations in 2026: Why Getting Named by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity Is the New SEO
AI Citations in 2026: Why Getting Named by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity Is the New SEO TL;DR AI citations are mentions of your website or brand inside the answers generated by AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, and Claude. In 2026, the SaaS and marketing communities are actively debating whether showing up in AI-generated answers is replacing traditional search rankings as the primary traffic and trust signal. A Reddit thread in r/SaaS with 78 upvotes and 58 comments highlights that practitioners are urgently trying to understand and track this shift. New tools like Ranklyst have emerged specifically to monitor AI citations across multiple LLM platforms, and established players like Semrush have added AI Overview tracking features. ...