Fertility journeys start with a question, asked privately to an AI.
Success rates, protocols, costs and second opinions — patients ask an assistant first because it feels safer than a search results page. CiteRank AI shows how the 8 major engines answer fertility prompts for your city and treatment types, and what it takes to be named.
Vertical benches currently run 4 engines; full tracking covers all 8.
The shortlist is written before the first call.
Fertility decisions are long, private and high-stakes. By the time a couple contacts a clinic they have already read AI answers naming two or three names — usually the ones with the most structured, citable public material.
'Best IVF success rate for women over 38' resolves to a handful of clinics per city, with numbers engines pull from wherever they can.
Regulated claims mean answers must be sourced and precise; a hallucinated statistic is a compliance problem, not a marketing one.
Embryologists and reproductive endocrinologists rarely exist as resolvable entities, so their credentials never reach the answer.
Engines default to the same two or three clinics per metro, regardless of newer centres with better outcomes.
Cycle costs, packages and financing are usually behind a form, so aggregators answer the money question instead of you.
Directory and health-portal listings absorb the citation your own clinic pages should be earning.
Which clinics the engines name for fertility prompts.
A sample of the fertility prompt graph replayed across engines, by treatment type and city.
| Category prompt | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity | Claude | Answer concentration | You cited? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best IVF clinic in the city | Clinic A, Clinic B, Clinic C | Clinic A, Clinic B, Clinic C | Clinic A, Clinic B, Clinic C | Clinic A, Clinic B, Clinic C | 3 of 22 | — |
| IVF success rates after 38 | Clinic B, Portal, Clinic D | Clinic B, Portal, Clinic D | Clinic B, Portal, Clinic D | Clinic B, Portal, Clinic D | 4 of 18 | |
| How much does one IVF cycle cost | Portal, Clinic A, Clinic E | Portal, Clinic A, Clinic E | Portal, Clinic A, Clinic E | Portal, Clinic A, Clinic E | 5 of 20 | — |
| Second opinion after two failed cycles | Clinic C, Clinic B, Forum | Clinic C, Clinic B, Forum | Clinic C, Clinic B, Forum | Clinic C, Clinic B, Forum | 3 of 16 | — |
Illustrative modelled data — not live client results. Names anonymised.
A three-centre fertility group, modelled end to end.
A fertility group was cited only for its flagship centre while two satellite units were invisible. We rebuilt clinic, clinician and treatment entities and turned patient-education content into citable, attributable answers.
- MedicalClinic, Physician and MedicalProcedure schema published across all three centres
- Clinician bios normalised with registration numbers, sub-specialties and publications
- Treatment pages rewritten as question-led answers with sourced, dated outcome statements
- Transparent cost-range blocks published for each treatment package
- Weekly replays across treatment and city prompts to attribute each citation change
Illustrative modelled data — not live client results. Names anonymised.
Per-centre visibility in one view.
Visibility trend and share of voice, loaded with a fertility-shaped dataset.
AI Visibility — Share of Voice over time
12-week trend, weighted across the tracked LLMs.
Tip: tab into the chart to focus a weekly data point, then use the left and right arrow keys to step through weeks. Press Escape to exit.
AI recommendation share — you vs competitors
Per-engine Share of Voice across the last 30 days of replays. Hover or focus a bar for the breakdown.
Illustrative modelled data — not live client results. Names anonymised.
Questions from ivf clinics teams.
Do you publish medical claims on our behalf?
No. CiteRank measures and reports what AI engines already say. Any recommended content is drafted for your clinical and compliance review before you publish it.
Can we track each centre separately?
Yes. Prompt graphs are built per city and per centre, so every unit gets its own visibility and share-of-voice reporting instead of one blended group number.
Is any patient data involved?
Never. Only public-intent prompts are replayed. No patient records, enquiries or identifiable information leave your systems at any point.
How many prompts does a fertility clinic need?
Most clinics start with 200 to 400 prompts covering treatments, success-rate questions, costs and city intent, then expand as new services launch.
What actually moves citations in fertility?
Clinician entity hygiene and sourced, dated outcome reporting move the most. Engines strongly prefer clinics whose claims can be attributed to a named, credentialed author.
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