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  "slug": "why-is-meta-ai-citing-resellers-instead-of-my-site",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/why-is-meta-ai-citing-resellers-instead-of-my-site",
  "question": "Why is Meta AI citing resellers instead of my site?",
  "description": "Discover why Meta AI prioritizes resellers over your brand site and learn how to use citation intelligence to reclaim visibility in AI-generated answers.",
  "summary": "Meta AI often favors resellers due to their broad content coverage and high domain authority. By using Trakkr to monitor citations and optimizing your site for AI crawlers, you can shift preference back to your brand.",
  "answer": "Meta AI prioritizes resellers because its models are trained to favor comprehensive, neutral, and comparative content that addresses complex buyer queries. When your brand site lacks machine-readable signals or clear, direct answers, the AI system defaults to aggregators that provide broader context. To reclaim visibility, you must move beyond traditional SEO and focus on AI-specific crawler diagnostics. By tracking how your brand appears across prompts and implementing structured data, you can ensure the AI identifies your site as the primary, authoritative source for your products and services.",
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    "meta ai citing resellers",
    "ai platform citation bias",
    "meta ai source selection"
  ],
  "keywordVariants": [
    "why is meta ai citing resellers instead of my site",
    "ai crawler diagnostics",
    "improving ai source ranking",
    "ai answer engine optimization",
    "brand mention monitoring"
  ],
  "entities": [
    "Meta AI",
    "Trakkr",
    "AI Answer Engines",
    "Resellers",
    "Brand Authority"
  ],
  "createdAt": "2026-01-16",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
  "tags": [
    "Citation Intelligence",
    "Meta AI",
    "Trakkr",
    "AI Answer Engines",
    "why is meta ai citing resellers instead of my site",
    "meta ai citing resellers"
  ],
  "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/meta-ai",
      "title": "Meta AI Pages"
    }
  ],
  "guides": [
    {
      "slug": "track-brand-mentions",
      "title": "How to track brand mentions across AI platforms",
      "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/guides/track-brand-mentions/"
    },
    {
      "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": "Google robots.txt introduction",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro",
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      "label": "Meta AI",
      "url": "https://www.meta.ai/",
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      "label": "llms.txt specification",
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