AI SEO Tool — Google AI Overview Sources & Citation Gaps

Give it your keyword set. Get back every domain Google's AI Overviews cite, ranked — plus the exact keywords where a competitor is cited and you are not.

Ranking #1 no longer guarantees the click. When Google generates an AI Overview it answers the searcher directly and credits a handful of sources. Those sources are the new first page. This Actor maps them across your whole keyword set and shows you where you sit in that ranking.

It answers three questions in one run:

1. Who does Google's AI actually trust in my category? — a ranked leaderboard of every cited domain.
2. Where do I stand? — your rank, citation count and keyword coverage inside that leaderboard.
3. Which keywords am I losing? — every keyword where an AI Overview cited somebody and it wasn't you.

Output: three views of the same run

Cited domain leaderboard — one row per domain

Field	Meaning
rank, domain, citations	Position and raw citation count across your keywords
keywords_cited_in, keyword_coverage_pct	How much of your keyword set this domain owns
share_of_citations_pct	Its share of all citations in the run
is_you, is_competitor	Flags for your domain and the competitors you named
example_pages	The exact URLs Google cited — read these before you write

Per-keyword gaps — one row per keyword

Field	Meaning
ai_overview_present	Did Google generate an answer at all
you_cited / is_citation_gap	Were you cited; is this a keyword you are losing
competitors_cited, cited_domains	Who won the citation instead

The run summary adds your overall rank, citation rate, and the full list of gap keywords ready to paste into a content plan.

Use cases

• Digital PR target list — the leaderboard is a ranked list of the publications Google's AI already trusts. Pitch those, in that order.
• Content briefs — example_pages are the exact pages that informed the answer. Study them before writing.
• Competitive share of voice — measure what fraction of AI citations in your category each rival holds.
• Content gap prioritisation — citation_gap_keywords is a ready-made backlog, ordered by where you are already losing.
• Pitching a GEO retainer — run it on a prospect's keywords and show them their rank on page one of AI.
• Market mapping — leave your domain blank and just map who owns a category's AI citations.

Pricing

Pay per event. No monthly fee, no setup fee, no minimum.

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.001 per run
Keyword analysed	$0.008 per keyword

A 50-keyword audit costs $0.401. You are billed per keyword analysed, not per output row — the leaderboard can be hundreds of rows and it costs nothing extra.

Input example

{
  "keywords": [
    "best crm for small business",
    "best email marketing software for ecommerce",
    "best project management tool for agencies"
  ],
  "yourDomain": "hubspot.com",
  "competitorDomains": ["salesforce.com", "zoho.com"],
  "countryCode": "us"
}

Output example

{
  "record_type": "domain",
  "rank": 1,
  "domain": "reddit.com",
  "citations": 34,
  "keywords_cited_in": 28,
  "keyword_coverage_pct": 56.0,
  "share_of_citations_pct": 12.4,
  "is_you": false,
  "is_competitor": false,
  "example_pages": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/...",
      "title": "What CRM do you actually use? - Reddit",
      "keyword": "best crm for small business"
    }
  ]
}

FAQ

How is this different from a rank tracker? A rank tracker tells you your organic position. This tells you whether Google's AI cited you — a separate, and increasingly more valuable, kind of visibility.

How is it different from your AI Overview Tracker? Google AI Overview Tracker is for monitoring: one row per query, run it weekly, watch it move. This one is for strategy: it aggregates across the whole keyword set into a domain leaderboard and a gap list. Same price per query, different question.

Do I need an API key? No. Add keywords and run.

How many keywords should I use? 20–100. Fewer than 20 and the leaderboard is too sparse to be meaningful.

Why do some keywords show no AI Overview? Google does not generate one for every search — navigational and very niche queries usually get none. Those are excluded from your citation rate rather than counted against you.

Can I export it? Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, or via the Apify API into n8n, Make or Zapier.

Track every AI surface

Each Actor in this family covers one AI surface deliberately, so you only pay for the check you need:

• Google AI Overview Tracker — does Google's AI Overview cite you for your keywords?
• Google AI Mode Tracker — Google's conversational AI tab, tracked the same way.
• ChatGPT Brand Tracker — does ChatGPT recommend you? Optional web-grounded mode with sources.
• Perplexity Brand Tracker — full live answers plus the numbered citation list Perplexity is known for.
• AI Rank Tracker Pro — every platform in one run, with share-of-voice reports across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI.

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