The Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance report reports citation visibility in Microsoft Copilot, Bing AI answers, and select partner experiences. In addition to Total Citations and Average Cited Pages, Grounding Queries are included; the 2026 expansion includes Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare features.
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Compare periodsThe Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance report reports citation visibility in Microsoft Copilot, Bing AI answers, and select partner experiences. In addition to Total Citations and Average Cited Pages, Grounding Queries are included; the 2026 expansion includes Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare features.
Record brand, query, platform, source URL and measurement date in standard format.
Check robots, WAF, canonical, index, structured data and HTTP responses.
Do not interpret mention, citation, impression, referral and conversion values as the same metric.
Verify which hypothesis works with baseline, changelog, and remeasurement.
Don't present Citation Share as a ranking or site quality score.
Meaning: This represents the total number of sources shown as references in your site's AI responses.
Possible cause: Bing AI Performance metric.
Meaning: Shows your daily average different source pages.
Possible cause: Total citation is different from total scope metric.
Meaning: Displays the source query phrases that trigger Citation.
Possible cause: AI answer grounding process
Meaning: Queries are classified into intent categories such as informational, commercial, local, etc.
Possible cause: AI/ML classification.
Meaning: Combines similar grounding queries in theme clusters.
Possible cause: Semantik konu analizi.
Meaning: The percentage of your site in all citations in the specific grounding query.
Possible cause: Relative visibility metric.
Meaning: It compares seasonal citation trends in succession.
Possible cause: Zaman serisi analizi.
Meaning: The site may not receive citations or preview/coverage may be limited.
Possible cause: New feature or low data.
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curl -sSI -A 'bingbot' https://example.com/rehber | grep -iE '^HTTP|location|x-robots-tag|content-type:'Displays the basic response for Bingbot.
curl -sL https://example.com/robots.txt | grep -iE 'bingbot|User-agent|Allow|Disallow|Sitemap' | head -n 120Lists Bingbot and sitemap rules.
curl -sSI https://example.com/INDEXNOW_KEY.txt | grep -iE '^HTTP|content-type|location:'IndexNow checks the key file.
curl -sS https://example.com/sitemap.xml | grep -F 'https://example.com/rehber' || trueTests if the guide URL is found in the sitemap.
curl -sL https://example.com/rehber | grep -iE 'dateModified|Updated|Last Update' | head -n 20Checks freshness signals.
curl -sL https://example.com/rehber | grep -iE '<h2|<h3|<table|Kaynak|Referans' | head -n 60Shows title, table, and source structure.
%40 citation share = 1st place on BingInterpret it as a relative citation area; do not mean ranking and traffic shareCreate a similar page for each query.Segregate queries into intent/topic clusters and create an extensive content plan.The increase after the update is definitely from the content.Noting model, request, and freshness impacts, with correlation report.Notify URL on each page view.It only reports new, meaningful updated or deleted URLs via the queue.First side citation reporting, cited URL and grounding query visibility.
AI visibility goes beyond the classic single keyword approach.
It shows relative citation and periodic changes.
No. Technical feasibility, access, content quality, and measurement can be improved; citation and AI response depend on the dynamic systems of the platforms.
No. Crawl, index, canonical, content quality, and site reliability are the foundation of GEO work.
No. It is a community suggestion; Google Search explicitly states that it does not use it as a special visibility signal.
There is no special schema for Google AI features. Supported structured data must be used in a manner compatible with visible content.
No. Bot access only provides discovery and retrieval permission; source selection is not guaranteed.
AI impression, mention, citation, cited URL, referral, assisted conversion, and answer accuracy should be measured together.
There is no fixed duration. Crawl refresh, platform scope, content change, and user request vary accordingly.
We audit bot access, content, entity, citation and measurement processes for Google AI, ChatGPT Search, Bing Copilot and Perplexity. We do not guarantee exact citation or ranking.