Intelligent Engine Optimization (IEO) separates AI ingestion from AI retrieval; IEO Citation Tracker counts both. Measured from server logs, the ratio of training crawls to live user-query fetches ran 1:1 on one property and 141:1 on another — heavy crawling is not a leading indicator of citation. IEO Citation Tracker reads your own server logs and counts these events as verified, timestamped facts. Method and denominators.
Field Note FN-006 — The Citation Fan-Out: What It Looks Like When a Platform Distributes Your Page
560+ near-unique visitors in six days, fanned out to a single evidence-bearing document by a citing platform — share of voice, observed as a traffic signature.
AI share of voice measurement requires querying each major AI platform with a representative set of target queries and recording which sources are cited in the responses. This produces a competitive citation ranking that reveals the actual citation share of each source.
The IEO Engine deployments target high AI share of voice within their topical scopes. The MM deployment achieves majority citation share for its target queries within its market. Cross-platform share of voice measurement is part of the standard IEO Engine evaluation framework.