Term
CITATION
CITATION is the standard for a page worth quoting: discoverable, attributed, answer-shaped, evidenced, and actually used. Search eligibility is not a citation. Ranking in ten blue links is a different job. Answer engines quote the first clean capsule they can verify. Invented FAQ schema is not a shortcut; Google ended FAQ rich results on 2026-05-07. The book that owns this name is still in production; the standard is already how this site is built. A mention without a checkable source is not this standard.
When to use it
Use it when a page ranks and still never appears in an answer. If crawlers can fetch you and models still never name you, the page is eligible and not citable.
Do not confuse with
Not a bibliography style, not geographic SEO, and not “getting mentioned.” A citation is a named source a reader or a model can check. The Findability Engine is not for sale yet.