Free resource

Citation opportunity template

The Airtable / Google Sheets structure we use inside every SyncSEO workspace — one row per (prompt × engine), with the competitor citation, your coverage, and the planned action. You can build this manually before committing to a tool; then automate with SyncSEO when you’re ready.

The 9 columns you need

ColumnDefinition
buyer_promptThe exact question a real buyer would ask an LLM.
intentCOMPARISON | ALTERNATIVES | HOW_TO | PRICING | REVIEW | EXPLAINER
brandednessBRANDED if your name or a competitor's is in the prompt; UNBRANDED otherwise.
competitor_citedWhich tracked competitor gets mentioned in the LLM answer today.
you_citedtrue / false — do you appear in the answer.
engineCHATGPT | CLAUDE | PERPLEXITY | GEMINI | GOOGLE_AIO
action_kindArticle, schema, placement, or leave blank if no action yet.
action_statusQueued, in-progress, shipped, measuring impact.
last_probedISO date. Keep this fresh or your signal rots.

How to use it

  1. Generate 50 buyer prompts in your category. Split 80 / 20 unbranded / branded.
  2. For each prompt, paste into ChatGPT + Claude + Perplexity. Record which competitor (if any) is mentioned, and whether you are.
  3. Sort by you_cited = false AND competitor_cited != null. These are your gap opportunities.
  4. For each gap, decide on one action: article, schema, placement. Log it in action_kind.
  5. Re-probe weekly. Track action_status and whether citations moved on re-probe.

Or let SyncSEO do this automatically

This is what the product literally does — on 5 engines, with brandedness tagging, with findings synthesis, with the agent drafting the action. Free plan runs your first full probe.