How often Claude's answers link to example.com for 3 questions customers ask, from the United States.
answers that link to example.com, 3 questions × 2 checks
API answer, may differ from claude.ai
more answers that name example.com but don't link to it
Each of your 3 questions was asked 2 times: 6 answers from Claude. example.com was linked in 1 of them.
Each question as Claude was asked it, with the sites its answers linked.
Claude: API answer, may differ from claude.ai. Asked through Anthropic's official API on 24 October 2026, as a user in the United States. Model: claude-haiku-5-5 with Anthropic's web search tool.
| # | Question | example.com (answers) | Sites linked |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | What is a widget | Linked 1 of 2 | rival.com, example.com, wiki.org |
| 02 | How much does a widget cost | 0 of 2 | rival.com, wiki.org |
| 03 | Best widget supplier near me | 0 of 2named without a link in 1answered without searching in 2 | – |
How many of the 6 answers link to each site, counted once per answer. Sites linked in at least two answers are shown, plus yours.
Questions where Claude links to other sites and not example.com. For each, what we found on the cited pages: how they open, whether they have an FAQ section or tables, and how recently they were updated. Observations only.
Links in 2 of 2 answers. Cited: rival.com, wiki.org. Not cited: example.com.
The page opens with a one-sentence definition, then a table.
Widget guide
A widget is
Questions(marked up as FAQPage)
Drawn only from what the cited pages above do. Anthropic doesn't publish how Claude chooses its sources, so these are things to test, not a formula.
The start of Claude's first answer to each question, and the sites it linked. They show how the question is answered today, and what a page of yours would be compared with.
A widget is a small part. Example.com sells them.
Sites linked: rival.com, example.com, wiki.org
Widgets cost between $5 and $50.
Sites linked: rival.com, wiki.org
Example is one supplier worth a look.
Each question was asked 2 times to Claude (claude-haiku-5-5 with Anthropic's web search tool) through Anthropic's official API on 24 October 2026, as typed, in a new conversation with no history, with the United States given as the user's location and Anthropic's web search tool available (Claude decides itself whether to search, up to three searches an answer). Each ask is one check. These are API answers and may differ from what claude.ai shows, especially to a signed-in user with history and settings.
Why 2 checks: Claude's answers, and the pages it cites, often differ between identical questions asked minutes apart. So each result is given as a count, such as "linked in 2 of 2 answers", and the score at the top counts answers, not questions.
An answer counts as citing a site when a passage of it carries a citation to one of the site's pages (subdomains included). Pages Claude was shown in its search results but didn't cite are not counted. A site named in the answer's text without a link is shown separately, as "named without a link". Sites are counted once per answer, however many of their pages are linked.
AI answers change from one day to the next and can differ between people and places, so this report is a careful snapshot, not a permanent ranking. A monthly re-check shows how it moves.
The page notes above come from reading each cited page on 24 October 2026. They describe what the page contains, nothing more: Anthropic doesn't publish how Claude chooses its sources.