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AI Search Citation Dashboard: 10,000+ Local Citations Interactive Dashboard

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The Citation Ledger

Ask Gemini “best plumber near me” and it doesn’t just answer — it grounds that answer in real web sources, then logs exactly which ones. So we asked it. Live, directly, across 50 of the 50 largest U.S. metros and 10 local-service categories, and wrote down every citation it handed back. No scraping. No sampling from screenshots. This is the model’s own grounding metadata, straight from the source.

Model: gemini-flash-latest 3 query phrasings / city Coverage: 50 / 50 metros
Updated Sept 9, 2026 Reddit has now fallen out of both major AI engines — 13.7% to 1.7% of Gemini’s citations, five weeks after the same thing happened in ChatGPT. Directories absorbed the share in both, and a re-test retired the Grounding Drift page’s next-day decay finding. Read what changed →
Part One

What Gemini Actually Cites

Every citation, every query, sorted into eight source types. One bar, drawn to scale.

View exact figures as a table
Part Two

The Most-Cited Sources

Ranked by raw citation count across every query in the selected wave. Color tells you the source type — check the legend above.

View as table
Part Three

By Service Category

The source mix shifts hard by vertical — dentists pull from healthcare directories, lawyers from legal-ranking sites. Pick one and see for yourself.

Top sources

Source-type mix

Part Four

By Metro

Same query, different city. Does the citation mix hold steady across markets? All 50 metros, pick any one.

Top sources

Source-type mix

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About Ben Fisher

As a specialist in local SEO, Ben has been helping businesses grow their online presence since 1994. Thanks to his contributions to the Google Business Profile Forum, Ben has been hand-picked by Google as a Google Business Profile Diamond Product Expert. Ben is also a contributor to the annual Moz Local Search Ranking Factors Study, and a regular contributor to BrightLocal.

Ben is the co-founder of Steady Demand, a local SEO company. The team at Steady Demand specializes in helping clients fight map spam, navigate the most complex Google My Business issues, and troubleshoot ranking issues on Google.

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