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  "slug": "why-is-claude-citing-low-quality-sources-instead-of-our-primary-landing-pages",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/why-is-claude-citing-low-quality-sources-instead-of-our-primary-landing-pages",
  "question": "Why is Claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary landing pages?",
  "description": "Discover why Claude prioritizes specific sources over your landing pages and learn how to use Trakkr to diagnose and improve your AI citation visibility.",
  "summary": "Claude selects sources based on relevance and technical accessibility. Trakkr helps you monitor these citation patterns to ensure your primary landing pages are correctly identified as authoritative sources by AI models.",
  "answer": "Claude prioritizes sources based on perceived relevance to user intent and technical accessibility. If your landing pages lack clear, machine-readable context, the model may favor third-party discussions that offer more explicit answers. You can diagnose these citation gaps by using Trakkr to track specific URLs and citation rates. By comparing your brand's presence against competitors, you can identify if specific content formats or structural improvements are required to align your pages with the model's evaluation criteria. This proactive approach ensures your primary landing pages gain the visibility they deserve within AI-generated responses.",
  "keywords": [
    "why is claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary landing pages",
    "claude citation sources",
    "claude ai source ranking",
    "ai citation intelligence"
  ],
  "keywordVariants": [
    "why is claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary landing pages",
    "claude landing page indexing",
    "ai answer engine monitoring",
    "claude source selection",
    "optimizing for ai citations"
  ],
  "entities": [
    "Claude",
    "Anthropic",
    "Trakkr",
    "AI answer engines",
    "Citation intelligence"
  ],
  "createdAt": "2026-03-05",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-18",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-17",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
  "tags": [
    "Citation Intelligence",
    "Claude",
    "Anthropic",
    "Trakkr",
    "why is claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary landing 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/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "technical-ai-visibility",
      "title": "Technical AI visibility setup for crawlers, schema, and discovery",
      "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/guides/technical-ai-visibility/"
    }
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      "label": "Anthropic Claude",
      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/claude",
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    {
      "label": "Google AI features and your website",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features",
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    {
      "label": "Schema.org HowTo",
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      "type": "standard"
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    {
      "label": "Trakkr docs",
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