CITED

Which CITED is this?

CITED is Chris McCarron’s book about getting a business recommended in AI search. The author’s page identifies GoGoChimp as publisher and labels the book a 2026 edition, updated July 2026. It advertises paperback and Kindle formats. Author’s book page.

The company’s overview identifies it as self-published. That is publication information, not a judgment about quality. Its position in the author’s own best-book list is also not an independent recommendation.

What is the stated focus?

The author describes work on pages that AI systems can extract, engine-specific approaches and visibility measurement. Sales-page references associate chapters with page structure, platform differences, industry examples and measurement. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews are named in the positioning. See the stated scope.

This makes CITED a topical candidate if your starting question concerns your business’s presence in AI answers. Before choosing it, seek a sample that lets you judge how its explanations connect evidence, actions and limitations.

What needs a closer look?

The same page promotes an accompanying scoring tool and reports results from the author’s agency. Neither the tool’s behavior nor those results have been independently verified for this profile.

When comparing books, separate the usefulness of an explanation from the strength of its outcome claims. Check whether examples identify the platform, period and measurement method, and whether those conditions resemble your own work. Compare CITED’s stated scope with the other candidates in our AI-search reading guide.