LLM Visibility Monitoring
LLM Visibility Monitoring tracks whether AI assistants recommend your site when users ask about your niche. Every week RankAscend probes multiple language models with niche-relevant questions and records whether your site appears in the response, where it ranks, and what the model says about it.
Enabling monitoring
Go to Settings → Integrations → LLM Visibility and toggle Enable weekly scans.
No OAuth or API keys are required. RankAscend uses your site's niche configuration to generate prompts automatically. If your site has no niche set, configure one in Settings → General first.
When you enable the feature, RankAscend checks whether a scan is overdue. If your last scan was more than seven days ago (or never run), it triggers one immediately.
How scans work
Models probed
Each scan queries three models in parallel:
- Name
OpenAI- Type
- model
- Description
Probed via the Pollinations API proxy with the
openaimodel.
- Name
Gemini- Type
- model
- Description
Probed via the Pollinations API proxy with the
gemini-fastmodel.
- Name
Perplexity- Type
- model
- Description
Probed via the Pollinations API proxy with the
perplexity-fastmodel.
Configuration
- Name
Enable weekly scans- Type
- boolean
- Description
Turns the weekly Sunday 6:00 AM UTC scan schedule on or off. When disabled, no automatic scans run, but existing data is preserved.
- Name
Mention keywords- Type
- string[]
- Description
Keywords RankAscend looks for in model responses. Defaults to your site name and domain. Add product names, brand variants, or specific URLs you want to track. Separate entries with Enter or a comma.
Data is retained for 12 weeks by default. Older probe records are deleted automatically during each scan run.
Error handling
Individual model failures do not stop a scan. If one model times out or errors (RankAscend waits up to 20 seconds per probe), that probe is skipped and logged, and the scan continues with the remaining models and prompts. Partial results are saved normally.
| Scenario | What happens |
|---|---|
| One model times out | That probe is skipped; others complete normally |
| Site has no niche configured | Scan is skipped for that site; no error shown |
| Mention keyword list is empty | Falls back to site name and domain as defaults |
| Data retention pruning fails | Logged as a warning; new probe data is still saved |