AEO toolkit: See who else gets cited, and how much traffic AI sends you

AI citation tracking told you when your blog got cited. It never told you who else showed up in the same answer, or how many readers AI assistants actually send you. Now it does, in two new spots in your dashboard.

Who else gets cited

Go to your dashboard, open AEO, then the AI citations tab. Below your tracked queries, you'll find a new panel.

It ranks every other domain that showed up in the same AI answers, sorted by how often they got cited.

Your own row sits in that list too, marked "You," so you can see exactly where you rank. Filter to one tracked question at a time, or leave it on the aggregate view to see who dominates across all your questions.

AI traffic

Go to your dashboard and open Analytics. Scroll past your usual stats and you'll find a new AI traffic card.

It counts sessions where a reader arrived from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude, the same four engines the citations tab tracks.

You get a 30-day total, a trend against the previous 30 days, a daily bar chart, and a breakdown by assistant.

This one needs Hashnode to render your blog. If your publication is headless, we never see the analytics, so the card stays empty. Track analytics on your own frontend instead.

Wrapping up

Both features are part of the Growth Plan. AI search is a real source of readers now, not a hypothetical one. These two features exist so you can measure it instead of guessing.