What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?

AEO prepares your pages to be cited inside direct answers — Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT and voice assistants — rather than merely ranked as blue links. It rewards extractable answers, structured facts and clear entity attribution.

How is the AEO score computed?

Eleven weighted checks across crawl permissions, structured data, answer format, entity clarity and technical access. Heavier citation blockers carry more weight, so the fix queue is ordered by what unblocks citations fastest.

Should I block AI crawlers like GPTBot?

Blocking training crawlers protects your content from model training but can forfeit citations and answer-layer visibility. Decide per bot deliberately — this audit maps your current policy so the trade-off is explicit.

What is the fastest way to raise my AEO score?

Add Organization plus FAQ schema, restructure key pages around direct 40-word answers, and verify AI crawlers can access and render your content. Re-run the audit to confirm each fix lands.

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Answer engine audit,scored across 5 dimensions.

Answer Engine Optimization audit across 5 dimensions: crawl permissions, structured data, answer formatting, entity clarity, and technical access. 12 weighted signals.

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AEO optimizes for answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews) — not just traditional search. This check evaluates 12 signals across 5 dimensions. Results are indicative.

SIGNAL

coverage

Core Analysis

Fundamental signals that determine visibility and performance.

Score breakdownPriority issuesQuick winsCompetitive gaps

Strategic Value

Actionable insights that drive measurable improvements.

Keyword opportunitiesContent gapsTechnical fixesAuthority building

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Answer-engine audit engine

Will AI answers
cite you — or skip you?

Eleven weighted checks across crawl permissions, structured data, answer format, entity clarity and technical access — your AEO posture quantified.

Crawl permissions

GPTBot, Google-Extended and CCBot access policy — blocking training crawlers has citation consequences.

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benchmarkpolicy map

Structured data

Organization, Service and FAQ schema that machines parse when composing answers.

orgserviceFAQparse

benchmarkschema map

Answer format

Direct question-answering content shaped for extraction — definitions first, fluff never.

directdefinitionsextractshape

benchmarkformat score

Entity clarity

Author and organization signals that let answer engines attribute claims to a trusted source.

authorsorgattributetrust

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Technical access

Server rendering, speed and HTTPS posture that decide whether AI crawlers can even read you.

SSRspeedHTTPSreadable

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Opportunity queue

Highest-weight failures ordered into the fastest path to citability.

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benchmarkfix order

How it works

From URL to answer-readiness.

Search sent traffic. Answers send mentions. Audit whether machines can use you as a source.

Step 01

Enter your URL

Any public page. Eleven weighted signals are evaluated live.

11 checks

Step 02

Posture scored

Dimension scores blend into an overall AEO readiness grade.

1 grade

Step 03

Issues ranked

Failures ordered by weight — the heaviest citation blockers first.

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Step 04

Become citable

Fix, re-run, and watch answer engines start quoting you.

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Answer engines, decoded

Citations are the new clicks.

Zero-click answers still build brands — if you are the cited source. These lenses engineer citability.

Policy is strategy, not default

Blocking AI crawlers protects training data but forfeits citations. Decide deliberately per bot.

Per-bot policy inventory
Citation-vs-training framing
Granular rule recommendations

Dimension benchmark82/100

explicit bot policy beats accidental wildcard

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11 weighted AEO checks

Per-bot permission mapping

Weight-ordered fix queue

Citation-format guidance

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Be the answer

AI answers questions. Yours should quote you.

Audit permissions, schema, format and access — then become the source answer engines cite.

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Answer-engine readiness: what the score means and how to become citable.

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