Competitor citation share is evaluated by resolving cited domains against registered brand hierarchies, using prefix-based Matryoshka attribution to roll child-brand mentions and domains up to their parent roots for accurate market-share tracking.
flowchart BT
subgraph Parent["Parent Brand"]
P["Acme Corp<br/>Total Citations: 45"]
end
subgraph Children["Child Sub-Brands"]
C1["Acme Cloud<br/>Citations: 20"]
C2["Acme Security<br/>Citations: 15"]
C3["Acme AI<br/>Citations: 10"]
end
subgraph Sources["Domain Citations"]
S1["cloud.acme.com"]
S2["security.acme.com"]
S3["ai.acme.com"]
end
S1 -->|Prefix Match| C1
S2 -->|Prefix Match| C2
S3 -->|Prefix Match| C3
C1 -->|Rollup +20| P
C2 -->|Rollup +15| P
C3 -->|Rollup +10| P