AgentsCited

E-commerce SEO for AI search and shopping agents

Get your products found, chosen and cited by AI.

Shoppers now ask Google AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity what to buy. AgentsCited helps e-commerce brands become a source those answers draw from, through clean product feeds, crawlable stores, citation-worthy content and honest measurement.

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The problem

Fewer clicks reach your store, and AI decides who gets mentioned

This is no longer a forecast. Controlled experiments published in 2026 measure the click loss directly.

39.8%

fewer organic clicks

In a randomized study of 68,089 searches, outbound organic clicks fell by 39.8% on queries where an AI Overview appeared (0.37 clicks per search versus 0.62).

Source: Agarwal & Sen field experiment (summary); coverage

73%

zero-click searches

In the same study, zero-click searches rose to 73% from 54% when an AI Overview was shown. AI Overviews appeared on about 41% of queries.

Source: ecorpit; seomadman

−18.8 pts

click-through in AI Mode

A preregistered study of 1,100 users found that moving people to Google AI Mode cut external click-through by 18.8 percentage points.

Source: arXiv 2608.18352

81%

of ChatGPT citations from list pages

One study of 60,350 citations found list-style comparison and "best-of" pages made up 81% of ChatGPT citations. Homepages made up 7%.

Source: citations.press

We report these numbers with their limits. One caveat flagged in coverage of this research: the "hide AI Overviews" arm only worked about half the time, and its effect across everyone assigned was small and not statistically significant (GetFoundAgent). AI answers also vary from one ask to the next, which is why we talk about odds and share of citations, never guaranteed placements.

What changed for stores

Your product feed is now part of your SEO

ChatGPT Shopping matches and ranks products from merchant feeds built to the Agentic Commerce Protocol spec, with updates accepted every 15 minutes (ACP feed spec). Google's Universal Commerce Protocol puts checkout inside AI Mode and Gemini, driven by Merchant Center data (Google UCP).

That makes GTINs, images, variants, accurate price and stock, reviews and return policies ranking inputs, not admin chores.

What still works

The fundamentals, aimed at new engines

Google says that to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode a page must be indexed and eligible for a snippet, and that there is "no special schema" required (Google: AI features and your website).

Getting cited is a two-step problem: the engine first has to select your page as a source, then actually use it. Evidence-dense pages with clear sections get used more. FAQ formatting on its own did not help (arXiv 2604.25707).

Services

Five ways we help

Start with an audit, then add only what your store needs. All work is sold as capability and evidence, not click guarantees.

AI-Commerce Readiness Audit

Indexation and snippet eligibility, AI-bot crawl access, schema, feed health, and a citation baseline across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode.

Feed Optimization Retainer

Ongoing tuning of Merchant Center and ChatGPT Shopping feeds: titles, attributes, GTINs, images, reviews and freshness.

Comparison Content + Digital PR

On-site comparison and buying-guide pages full of original data, plus ethical outreach to earn places on third-party "best" lists.

AI Visibility Reporting

Monthly share-of-citations from repeated prompt panels, Search Console AI data, GA4 bot cleanup and revenue, in one honest report.

How it works

From baseline to share of citations

  1. Baseline

    We check whether AI engines can reach your store and run a prompt panel to see who gets cited for your category today.

  2. Be retrievable

    Fix crawl access for Googlebot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User and PerplexityBot, indexation, structured data that matches the page, and feed gaps.

  3. Get selected and used

    Build evidence-dense comparison and product pages, and earn mentions on the third-party lists engines already cite.

  4. Measure honestly

    Track citation share and answer influence over repeated runs, alongside branded search and revenue. No single-screenshot wins.

Free AI-commerce mini-audit

A short, no-obligation look at how ready your store is for AI search and shopping agents.

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What we check

  • Whether your robots.txt and CDN let AI search crawlers in
  • Indexation and snippet eligibility for key product and category pages
  • Structured data that matches what's visible on the page
  • Obvious product-feed gaps (GTINs, images, price and stock accuracy)
  • A small prompt-panel spot check in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode