Brand mentions: where the web and AI answers name you
Your name in someone else's words. AI Rankia tracks it in AI answers and on web pages, then shows the pages AI reads that still don't mention you.
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AI Rankia is not named in the latest answer of any engine
Named in the answer, named on the page
Two kinds of data. One step connects them.
Track the questions
The AI engines you pick answer on a schedule; we record every brand each answer names.
Check the web
Web Mentions lists pages naming your brand, with sentiment, page type, country and language.
Close the gap
Get Cited finds pages AI cites that don't mention you: your PR list.
Every mention, and every miss
Is your brand named in the answer?
Per question and engine: who is named, how often and next to whom, over time.
- Competitors ranked by visibility, mention counts alongside
- Sentiment tab: tone from 0 to 100, with quotes, since 1 Oct 2026
Which cited pages mention you, and which mention them
Get Cited opens up to 3 pages per domain AI cited for your questions and checks the text for your brand, free of credits.
- The same check for every competitor
- Our brand: on 0 of 454 cited URLs; Semrush on 47.6%
Pages AI reads that don't mention you
Your pitch list, ranked by how much a mention there could move.
- Find contacts: 25 credits
- Draft a pitch: 10; send it: 2
- You review every pitch before it goes out
The web pages that talk about you
Search any brand or keyword in DataForSEO's crawl index and read the result three ways, each page with its sentiment.
Total pages naming it, the top 20 domains, and a split by type, country and language.
Up to 100 pages per check, author and date when known, filterable by country, language, sentiment, type or domain.
Mentions per day for the last 8 days, with top domains and sentiment mix. Copy it or export an HTML report.
A positive, negative or neutral label per page. Read the snippet before acting on a negative.
Mentions in AI answers
Not in Insights ($249/mo, prospect scans).
Web Mentions
1 credit per check. Monitor includes 1,000 a month.
Get Cited
Mention check free; contacts and pitches use credits.
What brand mention tracking here can’t tell you
| Topic | ✓ What it sees | ! What it can't |
|---|---|---|
| Links | Your name in the page text. Web Mentions and Get Cited read text, not links. | Whether the mention links to you. Use the manual search below. |
| Coverage | One crawl index: DataForSEO's, which doesn't publish its size. | The whole web, or social posts on X, Instagram or TikTok. |
| Timing | A snapshot per check, dated by when DataForSEO's crawler fetched each page. | Real-time alerts. |
| Sentiment | A model's guess: DataForSEO labels web pages; a second AI pass scores AI answers. | Certainty. Read the snippet before acting on a negative. |
| AI answers | A sample: answers to your tracked questions, asked from our side. | How many people saw an answer. We have no prompt-volume data. |
LinksCan't Whether the mention links to you. Use the manual search below.
Sees Your name in the page text. Web Mentions and Get Cited read text, not links.
CoverageCan't The whole web, or social posts on X, Instagram or TikTok.
Sees One crawl index: DataForSEO's, which doesn't publish its size.
TimingCan't Real-time alerts.
Sees A snapshot per check, dated by when DataForSEO's crawler fetched each page.
SentimentCan't Certainty. Read the snippet before acting on a negative.
Sees A model's guess: DataForSEO labels web pages; a second AI pass scores AI answers.
AI answersCan't How many people saw an answer. We have no prompt-volume data.
Sees A sample: answers to your tracked questions, asked from our side.
CreditsTracking: none. Web Mentions 1 per check; contacts 25, pitch 10, send 2 (pricing table, 9 Oct 2026; can change). The free plan has none.Tracking 0 · Web Mentions 1/check · contacts 25 · pitch 10 · send 2. Free plan: none. Pricing table, 9 Oct 2026; can change.
A mention, a citation and a link are three different things
A page can do one without the others, and each asks for a different move.
tools like Your Brand1 help
try it at yourbrand.com3
<a> tag pointing at your siteWhat no screen here detects.sponsored or nofollow.Search "Your Brand" -site:yourbrand.com (Google operators) and open each result. Slow, but exact.
Where brand mentions show up, and what can see them
| Feature | AI Rankia | Google Alerts | Google search operators | AAsking AI by hand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On the web | ||||
| Pages that mention your brand | Web Mentions | New results, by email | One search at a time | No |
| Sentiment, page type, country and language per mention | Yes | Not found advertised | No | No |
| Mentions without a link to your site | No | Not found advertised | Off-site mentions; check links by hand | No |
| In AI answers | ||||
| Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google AI name you | Yes | Not found advertised | No | One answer at a time |
| Same questions re-run on a schedule, with competitors and history | Yes | Not found advertised | No | No |
| Pages AI cites for your questions that don’t mention you | Get Cited | Not found advertised | No | If you open each source |
Yes advertisedNot found advertised not found advertised
Checked on on each vendor's public pages and docs. ✗ means we did not find it advertised on that date, not that it does not exist.
“No” is what we know a method doesn't do. Search operators: quotes, “-” and “site:” are each on Google's help page; combine them yourself. Google Alerts lets you pick frequency, site types and region. AI Rankia from Monitor ($99/mo); Get Cited from Brand ($349/mo).
Questions people ask
What are brand mentions?
How do I track brand mentions?
What is an unlinked brand mention?
-site: for your domain, then check each result for a link.Do brand mentions help SEO?
How do I track brand mentions in ChatGPT?
See whether AI names your brand
The free scan asks AI engines your buyers' questions: whether they mention you, who they mention instead and which sources they cite. No signup to see it.
