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  "slug": "why-is-claude-citing-low-quality-sources-instead-of-our-primary-author-pages",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/why-is-claude-citing-low-quality-sources-instead-of-our-primary-author-pages",
  "question": "Why is Claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary author pages?",
  "description": "Discover why Claude prioritizes low-quality sources over your primary author pages and learn actionable strategies to improve your site's authority and citation accuracy.",
  "summary": "When Claude cites low-quality sources instead of your primary author pages, it often indicates a lack of clear schema markup, weak internal linking, or insufficient topical authority. By optimizing your author page structure and ensuring search engines can easily crawl your content, you can improve how AI models perceive and prioritize your official brand assets.",
  "answer": "Claude prioritizes sources based on perceived authority, relevance, and crawlability. If your author pages are being overlooked, it is likely because they lack structured data, such as Person or Author schema, or have weak internal signals connecting them to your core content. To fix this, ensure your author pages are linked prominently from your articles, contain comprehensive biographical information, and are properly indexed. Additionally, using clear canonical tags and submitting your sitemap to search engines helps AI models identify your primary pages as the definitive source of truth, ultimately improving your citation performance across LLM platforms.",
  "keywords": [
    "why is claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary author pages",
    "claude citation issues",
    "author page optimization",
    "ai source prioritization"
  ],
  "keywordVariants": [
    "why is claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary author pages",
    "claude citing wrong sources",
    "author page seo strategy",
    "ai model source selection",
    "fixing ai citation errors"
  ],
  "entities": [
    "Claude",
    "Anthropic",
    "Schema Markup",
    "Search Engine Optimization",
    "Author Authority"
  ],
  "createdAt": "2026-03-14",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-19",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-16",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
  "tags": [
    "Citation Intelligence",
    "Claude",
    "Anthropic",
    "Schema Markup",
    "why is claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary author pages",
    "claude citation issues"
  ],
  "author": {
    "id": "trakkr-research",
    "name": "Trakkr Research",
    "role": "Research team",
    "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/authors/trakkr-research/"
  },
  "collections": [
    {
      "slug": "collections/citations",
      "title": "Citation Intelligence"
    },
    {
      "slug": "collections/technical",
      "title": "Technical Optimization"
    },
    {
      "slug": "platforms/claude",
      "title": "Claude Pages"
    }
  ],
  "guides": [
    {
      "slug": "citation-audits",
      "title": "How to audit citations, sources, and answer grounding",
      "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/guides/citation-audits/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "technical-ai-visibility",
      "title": "Technical AI visibility setup for crawlers, schema, and discovery",
      "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/guides/technical-ai-visibility/"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Anthropic Claude",
      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/claude",
      "type": "external-platform"
    },
    {
      "label": "Google AI features and your website",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features",
      "type": "external-doc"
    },
    {
      "label": "Google Breadcrumb structured data docs",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/breadcrumb",
      "type": "external-doc"
    },
    {
      "label": "Google FAQPage structured data docs",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/faqpage",
      "type": "external-doc"
    },
    {
      "label": "Google structured data introduction",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/intro-structured-data",
      "type": "external-doc"
    },
    {
      "label": "Trakkr homepage",
      "url": "https://trakkr.ai",
      "type": "first-party"
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  ]
}