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Check your AI visibility score across 11 AEO & GEO factors. Optimize for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and more. Free scan in seconds.
What is AEO? Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring website content so AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews can extract, understand, and cite it. Strong AEO combines answer-first passages, fresh dated content, statistics and citations, clear author and entity signals, semantic HTML, and open access for AI citation crawlers — the same 11 signals this tool scores.
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What We Analyze
11 AI visibility factors
Rebuilt for 2026 — including the freshness, authority, and citation signals AI answer engines actually use to pick who gets cited.
Quick Answer Blocks
AI engines lift self-contained 40–75 word answer passages. We check whether your content is formatted to be pulled and cited.
AI Bot Access
We check robots.txt for the 2026 citation crawlers — OAI-SearchBot, Perplexity-User, Claude-SearchBot — and that Googlebot (which powers AI Overviews) isn’t blocked.
Content Freshness
NewRecency is the single strongest citation signal. We check for machine-readable published and updated dates that AI engines trust.
Semantic HTML
A single H1, landmark tags, and a clean heading hierarchy help AI parse and chunk your content into citable passages.
Statistics & Citations
NewThe top GEO levers: inline statistics, quotations, and outbound citations to primary sources make content far more likely to be cited.
Author & E-E-A-T
NewMachine-readable authorship, credentials, and “reviewed by” trust signals — the expertise cues Google AI Overviews re-rank on.
Entity Clarity
NewOrganization schema with sameAs links so AI can resolve your brand across Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and Crunchbase.
Structured Data
NewBreadth and validity of Schema.org types — Article, Product, Review, Breadcrumb (and FAQ/HowTo) — that help AI understand the page.
Extractable Formatting
NewTables, lists, question-style headings, and TL;DR blocks that AI engines lift as ready-made answers.
LLMs.txt File
The emerging llms.txt convention gives AI models a curated map of your site. Early-stage, but easy future-proofing.
Image Alt Text
NewDescriptive alt text and captions help multimodal AI understand your images and the entities in them.
Simple Process
How it works
Enter any page URL
Paste any page URL — homepage, blog post, product, landing page. Our analyzer scans that one page using a headless browser to see what AI crawlers see.
Get your score
See your AI visibility score (0-100) with pass/fail results for all 11 AEO & GEO factors.
Fix the gaps
Follow fix-it guides with platform-specific code for WordPress, React, Shopify, and more.
Why It Matters
How is AI changing search?
TL;DR: people increasingly get answers directly from AI instead of clicking links — so being cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews now matters as much as ranking in Google.
- ChatGPT passed 1 billion weekly users in 2026 — if your pages aren't AI-readable, you're absent from those answers
- Google AI Overviews appear in ~48% of searches, citing sources directly inside the answer
- Generative engines favor fresh, well-structured pages that cite statistics and link to primary sources
- Perplexity, Claude, and ChatGPT reward clear semantic structure and machine-readable authorship
- Google's AI Overviews heavily weight demonstrated expertise, authority, and trust (E-E-A-T)
Traditional SEO vs. AEO / GEO
| Dimension | Traditional SEO | AEO / GEO |
|---|---|---|
| Goal | Rank a blue link on the results page | Get cited inside the AI answer |
| The reader | Clicks through to your site | Reads the AI's synthesized answer |
| Wins with | Keywords and backlinks | Answer-first passages, freshness, citations, entity clarity |
| Measured by | Position and click-through | Citation share in AI answers |
| Unit of content | The page | Extractable passages + structured data |
“Optimizing content for generative engines can boost a source’s visibility in AI-generated answers by up to 40%.”
Sources: Princeton GEO study, Gartner, and Reuters.
FAQ
Common questions
What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of structuring website content so AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews can extract, understand, and cite it. AEO uses structured data, semantic HTML, quick answer blocks, and AI crawler access to improve AI visibility.
What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) focuses specifically on getting your content cited within AI-generated responses. While AEO emerged from featured snippets and voice search, GEO targets LLM-powered platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. In practice, AEO and GEO overlap roughly 95% — both require structured data, semantic HTML, and AI crawler access.
How are AEO and GEO different from SEO?
SEO optimizes for search engine result pages with links. AEO and GEO optimize for AI-generated answers where your content is directly cited. While SEO focuses on keywords and backlinks, AEO/GEO focus on structured data, semantic HTML, and AI crawler access. You need both — Gartner predicts a 25% drop in traditional search volume by 2026.
What is an AI visibility score?
An AI visibility score is a 0-100 rating measuring how ready your website is for AI search engines. Our scanner evaluates 11 AEO/GEO factors — Quick Answer passages (16%), AI Bot Access (14%), Content Freshness (13%), Semantic HTML (12%), Statistics & Citations (11%), Author & E-E-A-T (9%), Entity Clarity (9%), Structured Data (6%), Extractable Formatting (4%), llms.txt (3%), and Image Alt Text (3%) — weighted by their real impact on getting cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.
How do I improve my AI visibility score?
Run a free scan to see which factors need work. The highest-impact fixes in 2026: add a self-contained 40–75 word answer near your H1, keep a visible and machine-readable “last updated” date, cite statistics and link primary sources, add author (Person) and Organization schema with sameAs links, and make sure the AI citation crawlers — and Googlebot, which powers Google AI Overviews — are allowed in robots.txt.
Which AI search engines does this check for?
We check for the crawlers that actually decide whether you get cited: ChatGPT Search (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User), Perplexity (PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User), Claude (Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot), and Googlebot — which powers Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. We also flag the training/grounding crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, CCBot) so you can make an informed licensing choice.
Is the scan free?
Yes. Free scans show your overall AI visibility score and pass/fail for all 11 factors. Paid plans (from $9.99/mo) unlock detailed analysis, fix-it guides with code snippets, and scan history.
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