Rule aeo-8c937d61bf6d56d4 · measurement · high confidence
Use Bing Webmaster Tools' AI Performance report (beta, launched Feb 2026) to track total citations, average cited pages, grounding queries, page-level citation activity, and visibility trends across Copilot and Bing AI summaries.
Applies to: all
Why this matters
It is the first dedicated dashboard showing which URLs are cited in AI-generated answers and which queries trigger citations, though metrics reflect citation frequency only — not ranking, prominence, or clicks.
Implementation
Type: not_automatable
Anti-pattern
Interpreting Bing citation counts as traffic, ranking, or business-outcome data.
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