Why AI Cites Reddit, Wikipedia and Forums More Often Than Your Site
AI engines favour forums and Wikipedia for structural reasons, not conspiracy. Here is the mechanism behind it and which question types your site can realistically win.
AI Citation Patterns: The Content Structures That Get Your Work Cited by ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity
Key takeaways 73% of top-ranking business content gets zero AI citations — the problem is structural incompatibility, not quality. LLMs skip passages when claims can’t be extracted without inference: name the framework, specify the duration, cite the source inline. Numerical ranges with stated variance drivers (“10–16 weeks, depending on SharePoint governance maturity”) get cited consistently;…
