Why is my website never cited on Doubao?

Doubao draws on ByteDance's own corpora rather than the open web. Open-web content is structurally disadvantaged here.

Is Doubao worth tracking then?

Yes — proving the zero is exactly what justifies a short-video budget to a client.

Doubao citations tracking

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Doubao cites through ByteDance-style source cards pointing largely at Douyin, Toutiao and Xigua. Nostimates parses the card set and reports frequency across n samples, with platform tagged per source.

How it renders

Card-style source references beneath the answer, weighted to ByteDance properties.

Sampling

Citation sets are the least stable field we return. The same prompt run n times will produce overlapping but non-identical URL sets, which is why we report frequency across samples rather than a list from one run.

Gotcha

If your client has no short-video or Toutiao presence, their Doubao citation share is near zero no matter how good their website is. That is a finding, not a collection failure.

What the API returns

A single collection call against Doubao for the citations field, sampled n times and returned as one object per prompt.

{
  "engine": "doubao",
  "field": "citations",
  "prompt": "best ai visibility tracking tool",
  "country": "GB",
  "language": "en",
  "n": 30,
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://nostimates.com/engines",
      "domain": "nostimates.com",
      "position": 1,
      "sample_frequency": 0.63
    },
    {
      "url": "https://example.org/guide",
      "domain": "example.org",
      "position": 3,
      "sample_frequency": 0.4
    }
  ]
}

GET /v1/collect?engine=doubao&field=citations

Response fields

Key	Type	Notes
url	string	Absolute URL as the engine rendered it, redirects resolved.
domain	string	Registrable domain, normalised for grouping.
position	integer	Order within the citation set for that sample.
sample_frequency	float	Share of the n samples in which this URL appeared.
anchor_text	string \| null	Visible anchor or chip label, when the engine renders one.
first_seen	date	First run in which this URL appeared for this prompt.

What it costs

1 credit per prompt per sample. Citations are included in the base collection — no surcharge.

See credit pricing →

Doubao citations FAQ

Why is my website never cited on Doubao?: Doubao draws on ByteDance's own corpora rather than the open web. Open-web content is structurally disadvantaged here.
Is Doubao worth tracking then?: Yes — proving the zero is exactly what justifies a short-video budget to a client.

Prove the ByteDance gap with data

We will run your prompts on Doubao and show you how much of the citation set is off-limits without a Douyin presence.

Other Doubao data

Brand mentions Sources Answer text Share of voice Sentiment Prompt volatility Locale variance

Across every engine

Compare how citations behaves on every engine we track.

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