Before you start
If you haven't yet, run the free audit with your AI assistant. It takes five minutes and tells you whether a paid audit is worth it.
A paid audit adds what the free one leaves out: more AI engines and models, three answers per question, the site check, recommendations, fix files, and PDF and Markdown reports.
Prefer to let your AI assistant do all of this? Connect the hosted MCP connector and ask it to "run a Cited audit of my site". The steps are the same; the assistant just clicks the buttons.
Step 1: Create an account
Go to youcited.com/register and sign up with your email or with Google. There's no card and no subscription.
Step 2: Add your website
Enter your website. Cited reads your homepage and fills in your business name, industry and a one-line summary. Check them and fix anything that's off, because they shape the questions Cited drafts in the next step.
Step 3: Pick your questions
Open your business and go to Questions. Cited drafts five questions that buyers in your industry ask AI, such as "Who are the best wedding photographers in Austin?" or "Which bookkeeping service is best for a small restaurant?"
Edit them so they sound like your real customers:
- Ask what a buyer would ask before they know your name. "Best family dentist in Denver" is a useful question; "Is Smith Dental good?" usually isn't.
- Mix broad questions with specific ones (a service, a location, a problem you solve).
- Write them in the language your customers use. Reports come back in the same language.
You can add more than five; each extra question costs a little more. See Businesses and questions.
Step 4: Choose how the audit runs
Below your questions:
- Depth: Standard, or Deep (slower, more detail).
- Models: by default Cited asks a flagship and a fast model from OpenAI, Gemini and Claude. Turn on Compare specific models to add others, or Google AI Mode and AI Overviews.
- Recommendations: leave on to get recommendations and fix files when the audit finishes.
The screen shows the price in credits before you run.
Step 5: Buy credits and run
If your balance is too low, click Buy credits, pick a pack and pay with Stripe. Or buy a single audit without a pack. Then click Run. A standard audit usually takes a few minutes; you can close the page and come back.
If an audit fails, its credits come back to you automatically.
Step 6: Read your report
When it finishes you get:
- one overall score, a score per engine and a score per model,
- every question with each AI's answer and the sites it cited instead of you,
- the site check,
- a short summary with the next step.
See Reading your report and Understanding your scores.
Step 7: Fix and re-check
Open Recommendations, generate the fixes you want (or Generate all fixes), and follow each fix's guide. Mark a fix done and click Verify on my site. Run another audit in a few weeks to see whether the fixes are working.