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AEO Checker Free Tool

Score how ready your content is to get cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Google's AI overviews - 12 questions, 3 minutes, and the specific fixes for your weakest area. No signup, no email gate.

💡 Information gain

Does your content include data, numbers, or screenshots nobody else has?

Your own analytics, benchmarks, pricing you collected, real campaign results.

Does it take a clear position or share firsthand experience?

"We tried this and here's what happened" beats a neutral summary of the top 10 results.

Would an expert learn something new from it?

If it could be reconstructed from the current SERP, an LLM has no reason to cite you over anyone else.

🧱 Structure & schema

Does each page answer its core question directly in the first ~100 words?

LLMs and featured snippets both reward an immediate, quotable answer.

Do you use proper H1/H2 structure, FAQs, and descriptive titles?

One H1, question-shaped H2s, an on-page FAQ that mirrors real queries.

Do your pages ship structured data (FAQ, Article, HowTo schema)?

JSON-LD makes your answers machine-readable - check with Google's Rich Results test.

🏆 Authority & citations

Is a real, named person with expertise attached to your content?

Author bylines with titles and LinkedIn profiles - LLMs weight identifiable experts.

Is your brand present where LLMs look - LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit, listicles?

LinkedIn is now a top-2 most-cited domain on LLMs; being discussed there matters.

Do other sites in your niche mention or link to you?

Not bulk backlinks - genuine mentions in roundups, comparisons, and communities.

🤖 AI crawler access

Does your robots.txt allow AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot)?

Many sites blocked them by default in 2023-24 and forgot - blocked means never cited.

Does your key content render without JavaScript?

Most AI crawlers read server-rendered HTML; content that only appears client-side is invisible to them.

Are your pages fast, indexed, and in a clean sitemap?

Basic technical SEO still gates everything - if Google can't crawl it, neither can anyone else.

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Why AI-search readiness is worth 3 minutes

A growing share of B2B buying research now happens inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and AI overviews instead of a results page. The clicks that survive are worth more: in our own analytics, visitors referred by AI assistants convert at a 26.3% key event rate versus 4.4% from organic search - about 6x. Someone arriving from an AI recommendation was already told you're the answer.

The scoring above reflects what actually drives citations: content only you could publish, structured so a machine can lift the answer, attached to a credible named human, on a site AI crawlers are allowed to read. (That last one bites more companies than you'd think - we've audited sites wondering why AI never mentions them while their robots.txt blocked every AI crawler.)

Frequently Asked Questions

AEO - also called GEO, Generative Engine Optimization - is making your content the thing AI assistants cite when they answer questions. Instead of only ranking in a list of blue links, you're optimizing to be the source ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI overviews quote and recommend. The inputs overlap heavily with good SEO, with extra weight on original information, direct answers, machine-readable structure, and being present on the platforms LLMs cite most.
It's a 12-question self-assessment across the four things that determine whether LLMs cite you: information gain (do you say anything new?), structure and schema (can a machine extract your answer?), authority and citations (is a credible person behind it, and are you present where LLMs look?), and AI crawler access (can they even read your site?). You get a score out of 100 and the specific fixes for your weakest pillar. It's an honest audit you can run in three minutes - no crawler, no signup, no email gate.
They're overlapping, not competing. The same information-gain content that ranks in Google is what LLMs cite - our own blog posts win both. The differences: AEO cares more about direct quotable answers, structured data, entity-level authority (named people), and AI crawler access, and it cares less about some classic ranking factors like exact-match keywords. If you have to prioritize, fix the overlap first: original content with real structure.
Because it converts dramatically better. In our own GA4, visitors referred by AI assistants hit a key event at 26.3% versus 4.4% for organic search - roughly 6x. Someone arriving from a ChatGPT recommendation has already been told you're the answer. Fewer clicks, radically better clicks.
Open yoursite.com/robots.txt and look for user-agents like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, or CCBot followed by 'Disallow: /'. Many sites added blanket blocks in 2023-2024 (often via their CDN or a CMS plugin) and forgot. If they're blocked, LLMs can't read your content and will never cite it - it's the single fastest fix on this list.
Faster than classic SEO in our experience, because LLMs refresh their retrieval sources continuously and there are fewer entrenched incumbents. We've seen pages picked up in AI answers within weeks of publishing. But it compounds the same way SEO does: consistent, information-gain publishing beats any one-time optimization.

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