Your Notion-powered blog, cited by AI search.
Many blogs are written in a Notion database and published by a site that reads it. Citable writes articles into that database, with properties filled in and the body as native Notion blocks, and measures whether AI cites the result.
Why AI cites (or skips) Notion sites
AI search engines don’t read your Notion workspace: they read the public website that turns the database into pages. Whether they can quote you depends on that website: the HTML it serves, its robots.txt and its sitemap.
Citable’s audit checks that public site, whatever builds it. And it measures every week which buyer questions AI answers with someone else’s page, then writes articles to answer them, into your Notion database.
What gets in the way on Notion
Citable’s weekly audit checks your public site from outside, the way AI crawlers see it, and tells you what to change.
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Pages built in the browser
If the site fetches the Notion content with JavaScript after the page loads, crawlers that don’t run JavaScript see an empty shell. The audit flags it as “an empty JavaScript shell”: render the content on the server or pre-render the key pages.
02
No draft state in the database
Without a Status (or Select) property with Draft and Published, or a Published checkbox, Notion can’t tell a draft from a live page: your site decides what to show. Add one so new articles wait for you.
03
robots.txt and sitemap live elsewhere
They belong to the website that publishes the database, not to Notion. The audit checks both on your domain and tells you what’s missing.
04
Images by URL
The cover is linked by URL, not copied, and images in the article are image blocks linked from Citable’s image storage (public, read-only). Make sure your site displays external images.
Connect Notion 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 Notion.
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In Notion’s developer portal, create an internal connection and copy its installation access token.
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Open your blog database in Notion → ••• → Connections → add the connection.
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Paste the token in Citable and choose the database. We test it and show which properties we’ll fill.
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In the same tab, choose how articles get published: scheduled with an approval window, or Drafts only.
What you need
- An internal connection in Notion’s developer portal with read, update and insert content capabilities
- The blog database shared with that connection
- Recommended: a Status property with Draft and Published options
What Citable publishes on Notion
Draft or live
Arrives as a draft when your database has a Status or Select property (Draft / Published) or a Published checkbox; it’s only set to Published with automatic publishing. You can unpublish from Citable for 7 days. Without a status property, Notion can’t tell a draft from a live page: your site decides.
One-click unpublish from Citable for 7 days
Citable detects your database’s properties by name and type, in English or Spanish (Slug, Summary, Status, Date, Tags, Language, Author, Image), shows which ones it will fill and leaves the rest alone.
Fields we fill
- Title (the database’s Name property)
- Slug, Summary, Status, Date, Tags, Language, Author and Image, when your database has them (English or Spanish names)
- Body as Notion blocks: headings, paragraphs with bold, italics and links, lists, quotes, tables, images and code
- Cover image (linked by URL)
- Images in the article (charts, diagrams): image blocks linked from Citable’s image storage (public, read-only)
Citable on Notion: questions
What people ask before they start. If something’s missing, write to us.
Write to usHow do I connect a Notion database?
Create an internal connection in Notion’s developer portal with read, update and insert content capabilities, add it to your blog database (••• → Connections) and paste its token in Citable. Then choose the database.
Will my article look right in Notion?
The body arrives as Notion blocks: headings, paragraphs with bold, italics and links, lists, quotes, tables, images and code.
Can I unpublish from Citable?
Yes, for 7 days after publishing, when your database has a status property: it goes back to draft.
Does Citable work with any site built on Notion?
It writes to the Notion database; what your site does with it is up to the site. The audit and the AI measurement look at your public domain, whichever tool builds it.
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.