Source Map

Source Map aggregates the links cited in your collected answers over the last 90 days.

#The table

Each row is a domain, with:

• Type — owned, competitor, review site, community, editorial, documentation, marketplace, directory, video or social. Types come from a rules-based classifier (known review sites, forums, video and social hosts, your competitors' domains, and so on). Unknown domains default to editorial, which is sometimes wrong.
• Answers citing it — the share of answers that cite at least one page on the domain. A domain is counted once per answer however many pages it cites.
• With you / with a competitor — in how many of those answers you were named, and in how many a competitor was named.
• Engines that cited it, and a sample page.

#Gap lists

A gap is a domain, other than your own, that is cited in answers naming a tracked competitor but in no answer naming you. Gaps are where being present would most plausibly change what the engines say.

Gap lists are included on Summit and during a trial. On other plans Source Map shows how many gaps exist and the first one in full.

#Using gaps well

1. Open the cited page and understand why it is cited.
2. Decide whether there is a legitimate way to be included: a review you can earn, a listing you can claim, a correction to request, a community thread you can join openly.
3. Prioritise sources that appear near Comparison and Purchase questions.

Citeroot doesn't contact anyone for you.

#Limits of this view

It's built from the answers you collected, so it reflects your panel, not the whole market. Citation behaviour differs between engines and between runs; a source that appears once is weak evidence.