{"id":10404,"date":"2026-07-22T11:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarity.microsoft.com\/blog\/?p=10404"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:19:43","slug":"analyze-ai-citation-queries-by-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarity.microsoft.com\/blog\/analyze-ai-citation-queries-by-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyze AI Citation Queries by Topic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As AI-powered search and chat experiences cite more websites as sources, individual citation queries can quickly grow into large, unstructured datasets. This makes it difficult to review and organize citation activity at scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clarity now adds topic classification to the AI Citations experience, grouping related grounding queries into a smaller set of automatically generated topics. This helps you review citation data at the topic level and more easily navigate large sets of queries without manually sorting them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understanding AI Visibility Through Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Organizing AI citation queries by topic is becoming an important way to understand how content appears in AI-generated answers. Recently, Bing Webmaster Tools introduced Topics<\/a>, helping site owners organize AI citation queries into predefined topic categories<\/strong> for easier analysis.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Query Topics in Clarity takes a more granular approach by automatically grouping related grounding queries based on the citation activity associated with your project. For example, a broad topic like \u201cSports\u201d may be broken down into more specific themes like \u201cWinter Skiing\u201d or other query patterns that emerge from your AI citation data. This helps you understand the specific areas where your content is being surfaced and how AI systems are connecting your site with different topics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Query Topics also complements Topic\u00a0Insights<\/a>,\u00a0another AI Visibility capability\u00a0recently added to\u00a0Clarity.\u00a0While Topic Insights helps teams proactively evaluate visibility and opportunities around the topics they define, Query Topics helps them understand the themes already driving citations for their site.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, these experiences help answer two different questions: Where is my site currently earning visibility in AI experiences?<\/strong> and where are the biggest opportunities to improve?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s\u00a0New<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The dashboard now emphasizes the metrics that best reflect\u202fvisibility and\u202fauthority <\/strong>while making large query sets easier to browse, filter, and export. <\/p>\n\n\n\n