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MechanismAI Visibility Mechanics8 min read

The Gap Between Ranking and Citation Is Entity Density

A page can rank and still be invisible to answer engines. That’s not a contradiction—it’s the system working as designed. Rankings reward page relevance; citations reward machine-confidence. Entity density is the conversion layer between the two: the difference between “you showed up” and “you got chosen.”

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