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  "slug": "why-is-gemini-citing-low-quality-sources-instead-of-our-primary-legal-pages",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/why-is-gemini-citing-low-quality-sources-instead-of-our-primary-legal-pages",
  "question": "Why is Gemini citing low-quality sources instead of our primary legal pages?",
  "description": "Discover why Gemini prioritizes low-quality sources over your primary legal pages and learn how to optimize your site structure to improve AI citation accuracy.",
  "summary": "Gemini often bypasses primary legal pages in favor of secondary sources due to indexing priorities, lack of clear schema markup, or poor internal linking. This guide explains how to signal authority to AI models, ensuring your official legal documentation is correctly identified, crawled, and cited as the primary source of truth.",
  "answer": "Gemini prioritizes sources based on crawl frequency, domain authority, and structured data clarity. If your legal pages are buried deep in your site architecture or lack explicit schema markup, Gemini may default to third-party aggregators that appear more accessible. To resolve this, ensure your legal pages are linked directly from the footer, implement comprehensive FAQ schema, and use the llms.txt file to explicitly define your primary content hierarchy. By optimizing your technical SEO for AI crawlers, you can force Gemini to recognize your official legal pages as the definitive source, effectively reducing reliance on lower-quality external citations and improving overall brand trust.",
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    "why is gemini citing low-quality sources instead of our primary legal pages",
    "gemini citation issues",
    "ai source prioritization",
    "legal page indexing"
  ],
  "keywordVariants": [
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    "gemini citing wrong sources",
    "ai hallucination legal pages",
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  ],
  "entities": [
    "Google Gemini",
    "Legal Documentation",
    "Schema Markup",
    "Search Engine Optimization"
  ],
  "createdAt": "2025-12-22",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-24",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-23",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
  "tags": [
    "Citation Intelligence",
    "Gemini",
    "Google Gemini",
    "Legal Documentation",
    "Schema Markup",
    "why is gemini citing low-quality sources instead of our primary legal pages"
  ],
  "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/gemini",
      "title": "Gemini 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": "Google AI features and your website",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features",
      "type": "external-doc"
    },
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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 Gemini",
      "url": "https://gemini.google.com/",
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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": "llms.txt specification",
      "url": "https://llmstxt.org/",
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    {
      "label": "Trakkr homepage",
      "url": "https://trakkr.ai",
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