Google Brand Mention & Citation Tracker

Find out whether Google mentions your brand when buyers search for what you sell. Type your brand and a few words about your product. We build the searches people type, run each one on Google, and read the summary box at the top of the results (Google calls it AI Overview).

Quick start

Press Start. The sample checks Notion across 4 buyer searches built from note taking app. Add your own searches if you have a list; you can check up to 500 in one run.

What you get

• Per search: whether Google showed a summary box, and an excerpt of it
• Whether your brand (or any alias) is mentioned
• Whether one of your pages is linked, and which ones
• Every site the box cites, so you can see which competitors and publishers Google leans on
• A run summary with mention rate, your citation rate and a Markdown report that lists the most-cited competitor sites

Good for

• Seeing where competitors get cited and you don't
• Picking which pages to improve for buyer searches
• Monthly tracking for clients, on an Apify schedule
• Checking a launch or rebrand shows up in search

Pricing

• $0.012 per search that shows a summary box
• Searches with no summary box are free
• 50 searches cost at most $0.60

You pay only for results that come back. Set a max cost per run in the run options and the run stops cleanly when it hits it. Normal Apify platform usage applies.

Input

Field	What it does
brand	Your brand or product name.
category	A few words, like note taking app or payroll software. We turn it into the searches buyers type (best note taking app, note taking app alternatives, and so on), so you don't have to write a query list.
autoQueries	How many buyer searches to build from your brand and category, up to 10. Set 0 to use only your own list below.
queries	Extra searches to check, one per line, up to 500 per run. Each takes a few seconds.
domains	We flag every search where Google's summary box links to one of these. Subdomains count.
brandAliases	Nicknames or product names that should count as a mention.
country	Two-letter code for which Google to search.
engines	Read from the normal Google results page, including Google's AI Overview summary when it shows one. Older saved values (aiMode, perplexity) are skipped with a warning.

Limits

• Reads one Google results page per search from the country you pick. Results can differ by person and day.
• Google does not show the summary box for every search.

Run it from code

Same input as the Console sample:

{
  "brand": "Notion",
  "category": "note taking app",
  "autoQueries": 4,
  "domains": [
    "notion.so"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "engines": [
    "aiOverview"
  ]
}

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/physealabs~ai-search-visibility-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @input.json

from apify_client import ApifyClient
items = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN").actor("physealabs/ai-search-visibility-monitor").call(run_input={"brand": "Notion", "category": "note taking app", "autoQueries": 4, "domains": ["notion.so"], "country": "US", "engines": ["aiOverview"]})

It also works from Zapier, Make, n8n and Apify schedules.