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Citations and sources

What is Source freshness?

The age or recency of a source selected by an engine

Source freshness compares a source's publication or update date with query time. Its importance changes with intent and topic stability.

What Source freshness means in GEO

A brand mention and a URL citation are different signals. This category separates presence, evidence and attribution quality.

Why it matters

Update when information changes, show honest dates and preserve historical context when it remains useful.

What to check in practice

Save the claim, cited URL and source passage. This makes it possible to verify whether attribution is correct and sufficient.

How it connects to other concepts

Source freshness belongs to citations and sources. It is best analyzed alongside related terms because AI visibility depends on several stages and signals rather than one isolated optimization.

Common mistake

Counting every link as a valid citation without checking which claim it supports.

Turn these concepts into metrics

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