Claude Rank Tracker

Where does Claude get its information?

Claude answers from two places. The first is what it learned during training, which has no sources you can check. The second is the web: when Claude searches, it reads pages at the moment of the question, writes its answer from them, and marks the sentences it took from each page with a citation.

For a buyer who asks "what is the best tool for X", those cited pages decide which products get named. This tool shows you which pages they are.

How to check what Claude cites for a question

With the tracker above. Type the question the way a buyer would ask it, and pick a country. The tracker asks Claude with web search turned on and shows you four things: the answer, the pages it cites, every page it read during the search, and the Reddit threads among them. Each number in the answer matches a page in the source list. Add your domain to see if your site is cited or only read.

By hand. Open Claude, make sure web search is on, and ask the question. Claude shows the sources under its answer. This shows the cited pages, but not the pages Claude read without citing, and you have to repeat it for every question.

Cited, read or absent: what the result means

The tracker puts your site in one of three cases. A fourth case is about the question itself.

• Cited. Claude links one of your pages in its answer. The position shows how early it appears in the source list.
• Read, but not cited. Your page came up in Claude's search, but the answer cites other pages. You are close: the search finds you, the answer prefers another source.
• Not read. None of your pages came up in the search for this question. Start with being findable for it.
• No page cited at all. Claude searched but wrote its answer without citations. It happens on simple questions. Try the question in a more specific form, such as "best X for Y".

Does Claude use Reddit?

Yes. When it searches the web, Claude reads Reddit threads when they answer the question, because people there compare products and answer each other in plain words. Whether it cites them depends on the question and on what else it found.

That is why the tracker shows both lists. A Reddit thread that Claude reads for your question still shapes the answer, even when it is not cited. And a thread is the one source in the list you can take part in: a helpful reply puts your product inside a page Claude already reads.

How to rank in Claude

Claude has no ranking list like Google's top 10. "Ranking" means being among the pages it reads and cites. What helps:

1. Be findable by its search. Claude's web search reads pages that rank for the question, so regular SEO still comes first. Do not block Anthropic's crawlers, ClaudeBot and Claude-SearchBot, in your robots.txt.
2. Answer the question in one clear passage. Claude cites sentences, not pages. A short paragraph that answers the question directly is easy to cite; an answer spread over a long page is not.
3. Be named on the pages Claude reads. Look at the cited and read pages for your questions: comparison articles, review sites, Reddit threads. Being mentioned there counts, even when your own site is not cited.
4. Check again. Answers change. Run the same questions every few weeks.

Why does Claude give a different answer each time?

Claude writes every answer fresh, and its web search can return different pages from one day to the next. Two people asking the same question can get different products named. One check is a snapshot. The pages that come back check after check are the ones that matter.

What this tool does not check

The tracker asks Anthropic's model with web search turned on, from the country you pick. It is close to Claude, but not the Claude app itself: the app can use another model, your past chats and your exact location. The tracker always makes Claude search, while the app sometimes answers from memory. It checks one question at a time, and the result is kept for 7 days.

Follow the threads, not just one question

Your buyers ask Claude many versions of the same question, and new Reddit threads start ranking every week. RedShip finds the Reddit threads that rank on Google and in AI answers for your keywords, and tells you which ones are worth a reply. Check a question here, and let RedShip watch the rest.