Free AEO Audit

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is about whether AI search tools can find, understand, and cite your content. This audit measures five factors that determine your AI visibility.

Enter any URL to check its AEO readiness.

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What is AEO

AEO stands for Answer Engine Optimization. It refers to structuring your content so that AI-powered tools (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude) can extract clear answers and attribute them to your site.

Traditional SEO helps you rank in a list of links. AEO helps you get quoted directly in AI-generated answers. Both matter. They overlap significantly but have different requirements.

What the AEO audit checks

Answer structure

Can AI extract a clear, self-contained answer from your content? Pages that start sections with a direct 40-60 word answer perform better.

Entity clarity

Does AI understand what your content is about? Specific names and defined terms score higher than vague pronouns.

Citation worthiness

Would AI trust your content enough to cite it? Author information, dates, and specific data points increase citation probability.

Semantic completeness

Does your content cover the topic fully? AI prefers citing sources that answer the main question and related follow-ups.

Structured data

Does your page have schema markup that AI can parse? JSON-LD helps AI systems understand the type and context of your content.

What cannot be guaranteed

No tool can guarantee that ChatGPT or Google AI Overviews will cite your specific page. AI citation depends on the query, competing content, model training data, and factors that change without notice. What this audit does is check whether your content has the structural signals that correlate with higher citation rates based on publicly available research.

How SEO and AEO overlap

  • • Both reward clear, well-structured content
  • • Both benefit from schema markup
  • • Both value authoritative, trustworthy sources
  • • AEO prioritizes extractable answers over keyword density
  • • AEO values entity specificity more than traditional SEO does
  • • Good SEO is the foundation for good AEO

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