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  "slug": "why-is-claude-citing-resellers-instead-of-my-site",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/why-is-claude-citing-resellers-instead-of-my-site",
  "question": "Why is Claude citing resellers instead of my site?",
  "description": "Discover why Claude prioritizes resellers over your official site in search results and learn actionable strategies to reclaim your brand authority and traffic.",
  "summary": "When Claude cites resellers instead of your primary domain, it often stems from issues with domain authority, content syndication, or lack of clear canonical signals. This guide explores how to optimize your site structure, improve technical SEO, and ensure that AI models correctly identify your brand as the authoritative source for your content.",
  "answer": "Claude prioritizes sources based on perceived authority, freshness, and relevance. If resellers appear instead of your site, it is likely because their domains have higher aggregate authority or your content lacks clear canonical tags. To fix this, ensure your site has a strong technical foundation, implement proper schema markup, and use robots.txt or canonical tags to signal that your site is the original publisher. Additionally, building high-quality backlinks and ensuring your brand is consistently represented across the web helps AI models distinguish your official site from third-party resellers, ultimately improving your visibility in AI-generated responses and search results.",
  "keywords": [
    "why is claude citing resellers instead of my site",
    "claude ai citations",
    "reseller seo issues",
    "brand authority optimization"
  ],
  "keywordVariants": [
    "why is claude citing resellers instead of my site",
    "claude citing wrong site",
    "preventing reseller cannibalization",
    "improving ai source attribution",
    "canonical tags for ai"
  ],
  "entities": [
    "Claude",
    "Anthropic",
    "Search Engine Optimization",
    "Canonical Tags",
    "Domain Authority"
  ],
  "createdAt": "2025-12-02",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
  "tags": [
    "Citation Intelligence",
    "Claude",
    "Anthropic",
    "Search Engine Optimization",
    "why is claude citing resellers instead of my site",
    "claude ai citations"
  ],
  "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/reporting",
      "title": "Reporting And ROI"
    },
    {
      "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": "reporting-ai-visibility",
      "title": "How teams report AI visibility, traffic, and ROI",
      "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/guides/reporting-ai-visibility/"
    },
    {
      "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": "llms.txt specification",
      "url": "https://llmstxt.org/",
      "type": "standard"
    },
    {
      "label": "Trakkr docs",
      "url": "https://trakkr.ai/learn/docs",
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}