Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Audit
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is about making a page easy for AI assistants to read, understand, and quote when they answer a question. This free AEO audit grades your page against the signals answer engines look for and ranks the fixes by impact.
The audit is deterministic and page-level. We read your rendered HTML and check for structured data, a clear entity identity, question-and-answer structure, extractable text, and specific facts an engine can safely quote. You get an AI Search Readiness grade and the exact changes to make first — framed as readiness, never as guaranteed visibility.
What this audit checks
- ✓Question-style headings with a direct one-to-three-sentence answer under each — the exact shape answer engines quote
- ✓FAQ content marked up with FAQPage schema, so engines can map your answers to questions
- ✓Entity clarity: Organization, LocalBusiness, Person, Product, or SoftwareApplication schema plus a single H1 and declared language
- ✓Schema matched to the page's purpose (Product for products, Service for services), not just any schema
- ✓Extractable, server-rendered text and specific facts (numbers, prices, results) that give an engine something concrete to cite
Who it’s for
SEOs, content teams, and marketers adapting their pages for AI-driven answers.
You’ll get a Revenue Grade, all nine subscores, and your top fixes free — with the full ranked plan and downloadable report available on upgrade.
See what’s includedFAQ
- What does an AEO audit actually check?
- It checks the on-page signals that answer engines rely on: JSON-LD structured data and whether it matches the page, a clear entity identity, question-style headings with direct answers, FAQ markup, server-rendered text the engine can read, and specific facts worth quoting. Each check is deterministic and returns a specific fix.
- What is the difference between AEO, GEO, and SEO?
- SEO optimizes for ranking in traditional search results. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) optimize for being read and cited inside AI-generated answers. They overlap — clean headings and structured data help both — but AEO emphasizes extractable answers and a clearly identified source.
- Will fixing these things get me into AI answers?
- It improves your readiness, which makes citation more likely, but nothing can guarantee it. Inclusion depends on the engine, the query, and your broader authority. We report readiness across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini as lenses, not as confirmed placements.
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