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  "slug": "why-is-claude-citing-low-quality-sources-instead-of-our-primary-legal-pages",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/why-is-claude-citing-low-quality-sources-instead-of-our-primary-legal-pages",
  "question": "Why is Claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary legal pages?",
  "description": "Learn why Claude might prioritize low-quality sources over your primary legal pages and how to improve citation intelligence for better brand authority and accuracy.",
  "summary": "Claude may cite low-quality sources if your primary legal pages lack clear semantic structure or are blocked by robots.txt. Improving technical SEO, schema markup, and content accessibility ensures that AI models prioritize your official documentation over third-party aggregators or outdated legal summaries found elsewhere on the web.",
  "answer": "Claude often cites low-quality sources when primary legal pages are difficult for crawlers to parse or lack authoritative signals. To fix this, ensure your legal content uses structured data, clear headings, and is not restricted by robots.txt. Additionally, verify that your internal linking strategy emphasizes these pages. By optimizing for citation intelligence, you guide Claude to recognize your official legal documentation as the most reliable source, displacing inferior third-party references that may provide inaccurate or outdated information to users.",
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    "why is claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary legal pages",
    "claude citation accuracy",
    "legal page seo",
    "ai source prioritization"
  ],
  "keywordVariants": [
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    "claude legal citations",
    "ai source quality",
    "optimizing legal content for ai",
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  ],
  "entities": [
    "Claude",
    "Anthropic",
    "SEO",
    "Schema Markup",
    "Robots.txt"
  ],
  "createdAt": "2026-02-06",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
  "tags": [
    "Citation Intelligence",
    "Claude",
    "Anthropic",
    "SEO",
    "why is claude citing low-quality sources instead of our primary legal pages",
    "claude citation accuracy"
  ],
  "author": {
    "id": "trakkr-research",
    "name": "Trakkr Research",
    "role": "Research team",
    "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/authors/trakkr-research/"
  },
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    {
      "slug": "collections/citations",
      "title": "Citation Intelligence"
    },
    {
      "slug": "collections/technical",
      "title": "Technical Optimization"
    },
    {
      "slug": "platforms/claude",
      "title": "Claude Pages"
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  ],
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    {
      "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",
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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": "Google FAQPage structured data docs",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/faqpage",
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    },
    {
      "label": "Google structured data introduction",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/intro-structured-data",
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      "label": "Trakkr docs",
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