Get your Webflow site cited by AI search.
Webflow gives you clean HTML and real SEO settings. Citable checks they’re set right for AI crawlers, measures every week whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI cite you, and publishes sourced articles as items in your CMS collection.
Why AI cites (or skips) Webflow sites
AI answers are built from pages the engine can fetch, read and trust. Webflow serves pre-rendered HTML, so the content is there for crawlers that don’t run JavaScript; our audit expects that when it detects Webflow.
What decides whether you’re cited is coverage: does a page on your site answer the exact question a buyer asks, with sources and a clear answer near the top? A CMS collection for the blog is the right place for those answers, and it’s exactly where Citable publishes.
Citable asks your buyers’ questions to each AI every week, records who gets cited instead of you and turns those gaps into articles, so you can see when a new URL starts being cited.
What gets in the way on Webflow
Citable’s weekly audit recognises Webflow and, for each problem, gives you the steps in Webflow itself.
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A robots.txt that shuts out AI search
Webflow’s robots.txt lives in Site settings → SEO tab → Indexing, and it needs a paid site plan and your own domain. Rules copied from elsewhere often block AI crawlers by accident. The audit checks each one and gives you the corrected text; after saving, publish the site.
02
noindex left in custom code
“Disable Webflow subdomain indexing” only affects webflow.io. A robots meta tag in a page’s Custom code (Inside <head> tag) or in Site settings → Custom code → Head code does affect your domain. The audit flags important pages with noindex.
03
Blog posts without Article schema
The audit checks blog posts for Article structured data. In Webflow, add a JSON-LD block in the CMS template page’s Custom code, which can insert collection fields such as the title and date.
04
Canonical and default domain
Set the Global canonical tag URL in Site settings → SEO tab and the default domain in Site settings → Publishing, so AI and search engines see one version of each page.
05
Sitemap and llms.txt
Auto-generate sitemap is a switch in Site settings → SEO tab. llms.txt can be uploaded in the same tab (LLMs.txt → Upload file); we treat it as optional, because its effect on AI visibility is unproven.
Connect Webflow to Citable
Takes a few minutes. Every article then arrives in your CMS, as a draft or published on its own, depending on how you set publishing.
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Create your Citable account and add your site: website, competitors and buyer questions.
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Open Settings → CMS & publishing for that site and choose Webflow.
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Click “Connect Webflow” and authorise the site.
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Choose the blog collection.
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Check the field mapping we suggest and save.
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In the same tab, choose how articles get published: scheduled with an approval window, or Drafts only.
What you need
- A Webflow site with a CMS collection for the blog
- Permission to authorise apps on that site
What Citable publishes on Webflow
Draft or live
Arrives as a draft (staged item) unless automatic publishing is on. You can unpublish from Citable for 7 days.
One-click unpublish from Citable for 7 days
Items are created as drafts and don’t go live with the next site publish until someone marks them ready. With automatic publishing on, Citable publishes that item only, not the rest of your site.
Fields we fill
- Whatever fields your collection has, mapped once: name, slug, rich-text body, summary, main image, image alt, author, date, tags, language
- Images in the article (charts, diagrams): inside the rich-text body, linked from Citable’s image storage (public, read-only)
Citable on Webflow: questions
What people ask before they start. If something’s missing, write to us.
Write to usDoes Citable need my Webflow password?
No. You authorise Citable with Webflow’s own consent screen for the site you choose, then pick the blog collection and check the field mapping.
Which fields does Citable fill in my collection?
The ones your collection has, mapped once: name, slug, rich-text body, summary, main image and its alt text, author, date, tags and language. Fields you don’t map are left alone.
Will publishing an article publish my unfinished pages?
No. With automatic publishing, Citable publishes only that collection item through the Data API. Your other pending changes stay where they are.
Can I unpublish an article from Citable?
Yes, for 7 days after it goes live: it goes back to draft in Webflow.
Can Citable promise AI will cite my site?
No, and nobody can. Citable measures every week how often each AI mentions and cites you, with a confidence range, publishes sourced articles for the gaps and shows when a published URL starts being cited.
See what AI says about you before connecting anything.