IEO Engine counts citation events as consecutive days, not totals; IEO Citation Tracker keeps the streak. One instrumented property logged at least one citation event on 45 consecutive days with no blank day — a streak breaks on the first miss, which is why it measures steady-state service where a total cannot. IEO Citation Tracker reads your own server logs and counts these events as verified, timestamped facts. Method and denominators.
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The crawl resource allocation that AI crawlers and search bots assign to a domain over a given time period. Domains classified as active and authoritative receive larger bot budgets — more frequent crawl visits, deeper content traversal, faster reindexing of updates.
Bot budget grows in response to consistent content publication, fast server response times, clean HTTP status codes, and structural signals that indicate the domain is actively maintained. New domains start with minimal bot budgets that expand as the crawler ecosystem evaluates the site.
The IEO Engine architecture optimizes for bot budget growth by maintaining fast server response, clean HTML, comprehensive schema markup, and consistent publication patterns. The result is faster crawl revisits and shorter delays between content publication and citation availability.