News schema engine
Clean NewsArticle structured data with publisher, author, section, and dateline, plus conflict detection so it never clashes with Rank Math or Yoast.
AEO · GEO for newsrooms
When an AI answers, make sure it cites you.
Citeroom is answer engine optimization built only for news. It gives your reporting the structure, freshness, and identity that get it quoted by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews, and links the answer back to you.
Free, open source, and built for WordPress. By journalists, for journalists.
AI answer
Local officials confirmed the old river bridge will reopen Monday after three weeks of repairs.[1]
Sources
- nagaland.meyour newsroom
- nagalandai.com
- nagalandprofiles.com
What success looks like: your sites in the sources.
Tuned for the engines your readers already ask
ChatGPTPerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsGeminiClaude
Good journalism already answers first. That is exactly what AI wants to quote.
The inverted pyramid, the lede that states the answer in the first two sentences, is the shape AI assistants reach for when they build an answer. Your newsroom has written that way for a century.
Citeroom takes that strength and adds the machine readable signals the engines look for, so the work you already do becomes the work that gets cited.
In the free plugin
The groundwork for getting cited, on every story.
Everything in the free version runs on your own site, with no outside calls and no data leaving your server.
Freshness and Google News sitemap
A live Google News sitemap of recent stories, and an honest “updated” date that only appears when a story genuinely changed.
Answer readiness check
A score in the editor for how easily an AI can pull a direct answer from a story, with plain guidance on the lede, headings, and structure.
llms.txt and crawler control
Generate an llms.txt guide that points AI assistants at your best reporting, and welcome or block any AI crawler with one click.
Citeroom Pro
See it working, and pull ahead.
The add-on for newsrooms that want proof and an edge: deeper schema, AI review, and tracking that shows whether the assistants actually cite you.
Citation tracking
Monitor the questions your readers ask and see whether Perplexity, OpenAI, and Anthropic cite you, charted over time.
AI answer review
A deep review in the editor, using your own AI key, that rewrites your lede and suggests how to make a story more quotable.
Entity grounding
Link your publication and your journalists to their verified identities, so AI knows exactly who reported the story.
Advanced schema
ReportageNewsArticle for original reporting, LiveBlogPosting for breaking events, and ClaimReview for fact checks.
Multi author bylines
Credit every contributor on co-reported stories, each one fully identified in the structured data.
Bulk actions
Apply Citeroom across your whole archive at once, instead of opening every story one by one.
See Pro pricingRequires the free Citeroom plugin. One licence for the news sites you own.
How it works
Live in an afternoon, not a quarter.
Step 1
Install the plugin
Add Citeroom from WordPress in a couple of clicks. No developer, no migration, no theme changes.
Step 2
Let it mark up your news
Citeroom adds clean schema, a news sitemap, and an answer readiness check to your stories automatically.
Step 3
Track the citations
With Pro, watch whether the AI assistants quote you, and use the guidance to climb.
Why trust it
Built on the same honesty your masthead is.
A tool for newsrooms has to hold the line newsrooms hold. Citeroom never trades your credibility for a number.
Never fakes freshness
An updated date only shows when a story truly changed. No silent timestamp bumping to game recency.
Never guarantees a citation
No one can promise what an AI will quote. Citeroom earns it through structure, and tracks it honestly.
Keeps your data yours
The free plugin makes no outside calls. Pro uses only the AI keys you provide, sent only to the provider you choose.
Your reporting deserves the citation.
Install the free plugin today, and give the machines a reason to quote you by name.