How to set up the watchlist for your brand and domain
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Add your brand names and domains in Only Fan Out's Settings, and every ChatGPT, Claude or Grok answer you capture shows whether each one was cited, mentioned, fetched or absent. The matches are flagged in the queries, the sources and the answer text, and the watchlist stays in your browser.
How do you add a brand or a domain?
- Open the side panel and choose Settings.
- Under Watchlist, type a brand name or a domain in the Brand or domain box, and pick brand or domain beside it.
- For a brand, add other spellings in Aliases, comma-separated.
- Click Add. Then go back to Live and send a prompt, or click Re-read on the conversation you have open.
- Read the Watchlist section at the top of Live. Each entry shows its status and its counts: c for cited, f for fetched and m for mentioned.
How do brand and domain entries match?
A brand matches as a whole word in any case, so Acme matches Acme's but not Acmeco. A domain matches the site and its subdomains, so example.com also catches www.example.com and blog.example.com.
Add your domain as well as your brand name, because a cited page may never say your brand in its title, as our post on tracking brand mentions in AI answers shows.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| cited | At least one cited source matched the entry |
| mentioned | The entry appeared in the answer, a search, a product card, or the title, snippet or address of a page the assistant read, with no cited source |
| fetched | A page from the entry's domain was read and not cited, and nothing else matched. Most matches on pages the assistant read show as mentioned |
| absent | The entry did not appear anywhere in these turns |
Does the watchlist track your brand over time?
No. It scores the answers you capture yourself, one conversation at a time. Each row in History shows its watchlist hits, so you can look back across past conversations, and searching your history shows how.
Read next
- How do you track brand mentions in ChatGPT, Claude and Grok answers?
- Fetched vs cited sources: why AI answers leave out pages they read
- How to search your past AI searches
- How do you use fan-out queries for GEO?
Related questions
Is my watchlist sent anywhere?
No. It is stored in your browser with your captures, and the extension has no analytics.
Does a change to the watchlist score old conversations?
It scores the conversation you open next. Open an older conversation from History, or click Re-read, to see it scored against the new list.
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