AEO Scanner audits any website for SEO, AEO, and GEO in one pass, showing you whether AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews can find, trust, and cite your content. Sign in to run a scan and get a scored report with evidence for every finding.
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Sign inAI answer engines pull from sites they already trust — so strong SEO is what earns the citation in the first place. AEO and GEO are the next layer up: they decide whether you're the source it names, and how cleanly it can quote you.
Get found and trusted.
Strong SEO and authority are what get an AI to cite you at all — it pulls from sites that already rank. The foundation everything else sits on.
The entry ticket to being cited.
Be the answer it extracts.
The next layer up: structure your content so an answer engine can lift it straight into a reply — clear questions, direct answers, schema.
Wins the answer box.
Be the source it names.
The next layer up: become the brand cited and recommended inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini answers.
Wins the AI recommendation.
In practice: get SEO-strong first so AI trusts you, then layer AEO & GEO on top so you're the one it picks.
Search isn't dying — it's changing shape. 800M people use ChatGPT every week, nearly half of Google searches now open with an AI-written answer, and around 60% end without a single click to any website. Your next customer increasingly meets an AI before they ever reach your site.
That breaks the old assumption. Ranking #1 earns nothing if the AI answers the question and no one clicks — the brand that gets named and cited inside that answer wins the consideration. And right now most of your competitors are still optimizing only for the old game. That gap is the opening.
SEO, AEO, and GEO aren't rivals. They're layers on the same foundation — clear, structured, trustworthy content — and this scanner audits all three so you can see exactly where you stand.
Honest guidance, not hype — here's how hard to lean on AEO & GEO, and where to stay skeptical.
This isn't a prediction. Hundreds of millions of people already use AI answer engines every week, and the usage data is public and measured. Assume your buyers are among them.
Structured data, letting AI crawlers in, clear answer-first content, real expertise signals — documented best practices that help AI and classic SEO at the same time. Low risk, dual payoff. Invest here now; you won't regret it even if the specific tactics evolve.
The newest tactics (things like llms.txt) and any single "AI visibility score" are still emerging — useful signals, not guarantees. Treat them as experiments you track, size the bet accordingly, and don't abandon what already works. This tool labels every finding Standard, Emerging, or Heuristic so you always know which is which.
Bottom line: lean in hard on the fundamentals — they're safe and they double as SEO — treat the frontier as experiments you measure, and keep SEO running underneath. AEO and GEO are an added layer, not a gamble you replace your strategy with.
No black box. Here's exactly what runs, and how we keep every finding honest.
We fetch your pages exactly as AI crawlers (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot) see them — no JavaScript execution, so the audit reflects what actually gets indexed and cited.
Deterministic checks for structured data, robots.txt / AI-crawler access, meta tags, canonical, E-E-A-T signals, and freshness.
One Claude pass per page rates answer-first structure, quotability, and entity clarity — the things a parser can't judge.
Each layer scored 0–100, with every finding backed by evidence, a reason it matters, and its source.
Documented, precisely detectable facts (schema.org, robots.txt / RFC 9309, Google Search Central, E-E-A-T). We detect the tag or we don't.
Recommended conventions not yet ratified (e.g. llms.txt, answer-first formatting). Labeled honestly, not oversold.
Model-judged, directional signals from Generative Engine Optimization research — useful, not certified.
Every finding shows its evidence and its basis, so nothing is a black box.
Each layer starts at 100; findings subtract points weighted by severity and by tier — emerging and heuristic signals count for half, since they're recommended or model-judged rather than proven citation drivers. Deterministic checks are precise; scores are on-page readiness signals, not a prediction of AI citations (which depend heavily on off-page authority this tool can't see).
The biggest driver of AI citations is authority and relevance — much of it off-page — which no on-page scan can fully measure; this tool audits the on-page half you control.
Each layer builds on the one before it.
In practice: get SEO-strong first so AI trusts you, then layer AEO and GEO on top so you're the one it picks.
The scanner runs a four-step pipeline on every page it crawls.
Every finding shows its evidence and its basis, so nothing in the report is a black box.
Search rankings still matter, but they no longer guarantee the click. 800M+ people now use ChatGPT every week, 48% of Google searches now show an AI Overview, and around 60% of Google searches end without a click to any website. Ranking #1 earns nothing if the AI answers the question and no one clicks — the brand that gets named and cited inside that answer wins the consideration.
AEO Scanner is invite-only: there's no public sign-up, and an admin has to create your account before you can sign in and run a scan. The product itself has no billing or payment flow built in — access is controlled entirely through invitations.