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 pre-deployment metrics state that establishes what normal looks like for a domain before IEO Engine methodology is applied. Observation baselines enable measurement of methodology effects by providing the comparison point against which post-deployment changes are evaluated.
Observation baselines should include search console data, analytics data, citation tracking data, and adversary atlas data prior to deployment. Without baseline data, methodology effects cannot be cleanly attributed because there is no measurement of the natural state.
For new domain deployments, the observation baseline is zero across all metrics — the methodology effects are visible against the absence of any prior signals. For existing domain deployments, baseline establishment is the first methodology phase before architectural changes are introduced.