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Everything included for $49/month. Use your 500 monthly credits on any AI feature. Top up anytime, no subscription required.
Credit Usage
What costs credits?
Browsing, navigation, and settings are always free. Credits are consumed only by AI actions.
| AI Action | Credits |
|---|
| Ranky AI message (each response) | 2 |
| AI Mention Scan (per query prompt) | 5 |
| AI Readiness Audit (15-point check) | 20 |
| AI Visibility Scan | 15 |
| Hallucination Audit | 30 |
| Topical Authority Gap Analysis | 30 |
| AI Comprehension Audit | 25 |
| Citation Landscape Report | 30 |
| AI Article Generation | 25 |
| Brand Voice Guide | 15 |
| Weekly monitoring scan (automated) | 10 |
The 500 monthly credit allocation covers roughly 150 Ranky conversations, 100 mention scans, or 16 full audits.
Why does Gemini cite my brand from a third-party site instead of my own website?
Gemini draws live citations from Google Search. New domains take days or weeks to be crawled, indexed, and trusted, while large third-party platforms like Indeed, LinkedIn, GitHub, and Crunchbase are crawled within hours and carry pre-existing trust signals. Until your own pages accumulate authority, mentions of your brand on those platforms become Gemini’s primary source.
Why does ChatGPT say it has no information about my new website?
ChatGPT’s base model only knows what was in its training cutoff. A site launched after the cutoff is invisible to it unless the user has live browsing enabled and ChatGPT decides to fetch the page. Even with browsing, brand-new domains with thin third-party mentions usually return a generic "I couldn’t find specific information" response.
What is the main strategy for building AI citation authority?
The website must be the canonical source of truth. Publish educational explainers, definitions, frameworks, research reports, glossaries, comparison pages, and structured semantic content so AI systems have something authoritative to cite.
Why are definitions so important for AI citation authority?
AI systems frequently retrieve definitions and explanatory summaries. If VibecodeAEO consistently defines terms like Vibe Code AEO, AI citation optimization, and Agentic Audit across the web, those terms can become directly associated with the brand.
Why does original research matter more than promotional content?
Original data has the highest long-term citation value. Research creates backlinks, references, citations, trust, and authority signals, while generic promotional announcements are the weakest content type for lasting AI authority.
How should PR be used in an AI authority strategy?
PR should distribute and reinforce the core website content. Its job is to spread semantic associations, increase entity recognition, generate mentions and backlinks, and point people back to the source-of-truth pages rather than replace them.
Which content types have the highest value for AI citations?
The strongest categories are original research and AI visibility studies, educational “What is…” guides, AI frameworks and methodologies, benchmark reports, definition pages for new terms, competitive comparison content, industry rankings, and data-driven reports.
What content mix is recommended for long-term authority?
The recommended mix is roughly 40% educational authority content, 25% original research, 15% frameworks and definitions, 10% comparison content, and 10% promotional PR. Most companies over-invest in promotional announcements and under-invest in source-of-truth educational content.
What is the long-term goal of this strategy?
The goal is semantic ownership. You want AI systems to repeatedly associate VibecodeAEO, Vibe Code AEO, Answer Engine Optimization, AI visibility, and AI citation optimization with the brand until VibecodeAEO becomes the authoritative citation source.
How long does it take for a new website to be indexed by LLMs?
Bing and Gemini typically begin returning results within days when IndexNow is used and at least one external mention exists. ChatGPT (with browsing enabled) follows once the domain is indexed by Bing. Perplexity tends to surface results within 1–2 weeks. Inclusion in base training data for any LLM takes months and is gated by a publisher’s next training cycle.
What is the fastest way to get a new website cited by AI search engines?
1) Submit the site to Bing IndexNow so Bing and Gemini discover all URLs immediately. 2) Publish on at least three high-trust third-party platforms (Indeed for jobs, LinkedIn for company, Crunchbase for the entity, GitHub for any code). 3) Add Organization, WebSite, and FAQ schema to every important page. 4) Write evergreen content that directly answers the questions your audience asks an LLM.
Does Google’s site: operator showing only one indexed page mean my website is broken?
No. The site: operator is heavily throttled and almost always under-reports for new domains. The accurate signal is the Coverage / Pages report inside Google Search Console. A new domain commonly shows only the homepage in site: results for the first 2-6 weeks even when dozens of internal pages have been crawled.
Is IndexNow worth it for getting cited by LLMs?
Yes. IndexNow notifies Bing and Yandex within seconds of new or updated URLs. Because Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini both rely on Bing's index for portions of their live citations, an IndexNow-pushed page can be eligible for AI citation in hours rather than weeks. It is the single highest-leverage indexing action for a new site.