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Checks 18 AEO signals across content, schema, technical SEO, and content quality
What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of structuring your web pages so that AI engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google's AI Overviews, and Bing Copilot — can understand, extract, and cite your content when answering user questions.
Traditional SEO optimizes for ranked search results. AEO optimizes for being the source of the answer itself. When someone asks an AI "What's the best CMS for a small business?", the engine pulls from pages that are structured to be quotable: clear answers near the top, question-based headings, schema markup, and authoritative content.
AEO doesn't replace SEO — it builds on it. A page that's already SEO-friendly has a head start, but AEO adds specific patterns (answer-first paragraphs, structured data, concise answer blocks) that AI engines prefer.
As AI search traffic grows, pages that are AEO-ready become discoverable through an entirely new channel. This tool checks whether your pages are ready.
What This Tool Checks
We analyze 18 AEO signals, grouped into four categories and weighted by their impact on AI citation likelihood.
Content & Answer Signals (48 points)
AI engines extract from content, so content matters most. We check for an answer-first content block in the opening paragraph, question-based headings (H2/H3), concise answer paragraphs (15-60 words), structured lists, data tables, and content depth of at least 800 words.
Schema & Structured Data (30 points)
Schema markup tells AI engines exactly what your content is about. We check for JSON-LD, FAQPage, HowTo, Speakable, Article/BlogPosting, and Organization schemas.
Technical SEO (17 points + AI Bot Crawlability)
The fundamentals still matter. We audit your meta description, heading hierarchy, canonical tag, Open Graph tags, and title tag. We also verify that AI crawlers (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot) aren't blocked in your robots.txt — the most common reason pages go uncited by AI engines.
Content Quality (11 points)
We measure your content-to-code ratio, image alt text coverage, and outbound links to authoritative sources (.gov, .edu, Wikipedia, major publications).
Each failed check returns a page-specific fix recommendation — not generic advice, but what's wrong on your actual page and how to address it.
How to Improve Your AEO Score
Actionable steps for each category. Work through these in order — content signals first, then schema, then technical fundamentals.
Content & Answer Signals
Lead every important page with a 40-60 word declarative paragraph that directly answers the page's primary question. Convert section headings from statements to questions ("What are the best CMS options?" instead of "Our CMS Options"). After each question heading, place a concise 15-60 word answer before expanding into detail. Wherever possible, use bulleted lists and comparison tables instead of long prose.
Schema & Structured Data
Work with your developer to add FAQPage schema wherever you have Q&A content, Article or BlogPosting schema with dateModified and author on every editorial page, and Organization schema in your site template for entity recognition. These are one-time implementations that benefit every page.
Technical SEO
Write meta descriptions between 120-160 characters, use exactly one H1 per page, add a canonical tag to every URL, and ensure all three Open Graph tags (og:title, og:description, og:image) are present.
Content Quality
Aim for 100% alt text coverage on images, reference 2-3 authoritative sources per page (linking out to Wikipedia, research papers, or industry publications strengthens your credibility with AI engines), and keep your visible-text-to-code ratio above 25%.
Check Your robots.txt
AI engines can't cite content they can't read. Confirm GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, and Google-Extended are not blocked. Our tool checks this automatically when you analyze a URL.