What Drives Citations in Production Large Language Models? An Observational Multi-Method Study of Two Million AI Citations Across Ten Thousand Web Pages
An observational study of approximately 2 million LLM citations from four commercial engines over six months, joined to 10,000 crawled pages from nineteen B2B SaaS workspaces, finding prompt-content alignment is the dominant page-level predictor and domain-level AI authority exceeds the strongest non-alignment page-lev...