- —AI Search Health
- Whether the crawlers behind the answer engines can reach your pages. Reported per crawler as Healthy, Have issues, or Blocked. See AI Search Health
- —AI visibility
- Whether assistants name your brand and cite your domain when answering questions in your market. Distinct from rank tracking, which measures the classic results. See AI visibility
- —Answer engine
- A surface that generates an answer rather than returning a list of links. Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini
- —Auto-Optimize
- A run that closes the gaps a content score found and reports what changed. Nothing publishes without approval. See Auto-Optimize
- —Brand Space
- One domain and everything Ranksmile knows about it. Nothing crosses between spaces. See Brand Spaces
- —Citation
- An engine linking your domain as a source for its answer. Different from a mention
- —Content score
- How a page compares to the pages currently winning its target query, with the breakdown of what is missing. See content score
- —Coverage gap
- A topic your content does not answer at all, as opposed to answers it badly
- —Fanout query
- A sub-question an engine generates from your prompt before answering it. Where the citation decision actually happens. See fanout queries
- —Mention
- An engine naming your brand in its answer, whether or not it links you. Different from a citation
- —Prompt
- A question you track in AI visibility, put to every engine you have enabled. See choosing prompts
- —Refresh schedule
- How often tracked prompts are scanned again. Your plan sets it: weekly on Growth, daily on Scale and Agency. New and edited prompts are scanned right away
- —Site Health
- The technical state of the pages a crawl covered, as a share of checks that passed. See site audit
- —Site Speed
- How fast the site is, measured during the crawl rather than separately, so it is comparable to the issues listed beside it
- —Source
- A page cited in an answer, yours or a competitor's. See Sources
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