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  "slug": "why-is-claude-citing-low-quality-sources-instead-of-our-primary-category-pages",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/why-is-claude-citing-low-quality-sources-instead-of-our-primary-category-pages",
  "question": "Why is Claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary category pages?",
  "description": "Discover why Claude selects specific sources over your category pages and learn how to optimize your content for better visibility in AI-generated answers.",
  "summary": "Claude prioritizes content based on relevance and structural clarity. You can improve your category page visibility by using Trakkr to diagnose citation gaps and refining your content to meet AI platform requirements.",
  "answer": "Claude selects sources based on how well content aligns with the specific intent of a user prompt. If your category pages are being bypassed, it is often because the model finds more concise or structurally accessible information elsewhere. To influence Claude, you must ensure your pages provide direct, authoritative answers to buyer queries while maintaining a clean technical structure. Using Trakkr allows you to monitor these citation patterns, compare your performance against competitors, and identify the specific technical or content-based barriers preventing your category pages from being cited by the model.",
  "keywords": [
    "why is claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary category pages",
    "claude citation sources",
    "ai platform citation",
    "claude category page visibility"
  ],
  "keywordVariants": [
    "why is claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary category pages",
    "improving ai source relevance",
    "claude source selection",
    "optimizing category pages for ai",
    "ai visibility diagnostics"
  ],
  "entities": [
    "Claude",
    "Anthropic",
    "Trakkr",
    "Category pages",
    "Citation intelligence"
  ],
  "createdAt": "2026-01-09",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
  "tags": [
    "Citation Intelligence",
    "Claude",
    "Anthropic",
    "Trakkr",
    "why is claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary category pages",
    "claude citation sources"
  ],
  "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/"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
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      "label": "Anthropic Claude",
      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/claude",
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    },
    {
      "label": "Schema.org HowTo",
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    },
    {
      "label": "Trakkr docs",
      "url": "https://trakkr.ai/learn/docs",
      "type": "first-party"
    }
  ]
}