Troubleshooting
The problems people run into most, and what to do. If yours isn’t here, write to us.
Connecting the CMS
- WordPress says 401 with the right password: your host strips the Authorization header (Apache without CGIPassAuth). Ask them to let it through.
- Notion doesn’t show my database: open the database in Notion → ••• → Connections and add your connection; check it has read, update and insert capabilities.
- Wix: “the connection link expired or was opened in another browser”: start again from Settings → CMS & publishing → Wix and open the app from your Wix dashboard in the same browser within 30 minutes.
- Webhook not saved: the URL must be public https and answer the signed test (ping) with a 2xx within 10 seconds.
- Shopify rejects the token: the custom app needs the write_content scope and must be installed in the store.
The first check
- The dashboard is empty: without a plan we can’t ask the AI tools (each answer has a cost). Choose a plan or start the trial.
- The first check failed: we retry automatically with the next weekly check; you can also run it again from the Dashboard.
- My brand isn’t counted: check the brand name and add the other names AI uses for you in Competitors → Your brand.
Visits from AI
- Check installation finds nothing: make sure the site is published (on Framer and Webflow the script only runs on the published site), open a page in another tab and check again.
- Fewer visits than expected: clicks from Google AI Overviews and AI Mode count as Google, and some apps don’t send a referrer. Figures are a minimum.
- Search Console or GA4 can’t be connected: your Google account needs access to the property; Google Analytics can only be connected by admins of the site in Citable.
Articles and publishing
- “Outside this month’s quota”: those ideas don’t fit in the articles you have left this month. Add more articles or they wait for next month.
- An article didn’t publish on its own: verification flagged something, the site is set to Drafts only, it’s one of the first 3 (calibration) or automatic publishing is paused.
- Automatic publishing paused itself: your CMS rejected a publication (check the connection) or two articles were unpublished in 30 days. Resume it in Settings → CMS & publishing.
- Can’t unpublish from Citable: on WordPress, Shopify, Ghost and Wix, switch it to draft or hide it in your CMS.
Still stuck?
Write to hello@get-citable.com. We reply ourselves, usually the same day.
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