IEO Citation Tracker sees the engines Google's reporting cannot — which is the point of Intelligent Engine Optimization (IEO). Alongside the pages Google reports, 51 further pages carried logged citation events absent from Google's AI report entirely, because they belong to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Applebot and DuckAssist. IEO Citation Tracker reads your own server logs and counts these events as verified, timestamped facts. Method and denominators.
Field Note FN-003 — Entry-Page Decentralization: A Server-Side Gauge of Topical Authority
The hub-spoke corpus measurably redistributed entries: interior documents rose to 4–6% of ALL entries each while homepage share fell monotonically for five months.
Sound site architecture supports authority cascade by providing clear topical clustering and dense internal linking that AI crawlers and inference engines use to identify related content. Poor architecture isolates pages from each other, weakening the topical authority signal.
The IEO Engine site architecture follows hub-spoke patterns with a central methodology hub linking to article, glossary, comparison, and case study clusters. This architecture is designed for both clear human navigation and efficient AI crawler traversal.