You get cited by being the clear, well-sourced, extractable authority on a specific claim, making sure the page is crawlable and indexable so the tool can actually retrieve it, earning mentions and citations elsewhere that build your credibility, and structuring your answers so they can be lifted cleanly. There is no submit-your-site button and no guaranteed trick, and because AI citation behavior shifts quickly, treat the levers below as current best practice to verify rather than a fixed recipe.
The first lever is retrievability. A page cannot be cited if the tool cannot reach it. That means it needs to be crawlable and indexable, not blocked, not hidden behind barriers these tools cannot pass, and present in the sources the tool draws from (which for several tools means ranking in conventional search, since that is part of how they retrieve). If your page is invisible to the retrieval layer, nothing else matters.
The second lever is extractability. The tool needs a discrete, self-contained answer it can pull. State your core claim in a clean sentence, support it with specifics, and structure steps or comparisons so they lift cleanly. A page that makes the reader infer the answer gives the tool nothing to quote.
The third lever is authority and corroboration. These systems prefer sources that look credible and whose claims are echoed elsewhere. Being mentioned, linked, and cited across the web, and citing solid sources yourself, raises the odds your page is the one chosen when several pages say roughly the same thing. Specific, verifiable detail reinforces this, because checkable claims read as more trustworthy.
What you cannot do is force it. There is no submission, no payment, no hack that guarantees a citation, and anyone promising one is selling the trick-hunters a fantasy.
Take a page you want cited and audit it against the three levers: is it retrievable, is its answer cleanly extractable, and is it the kind of corroborated, specific source these tools trust? Fix the weakest one first.