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GEO Audit

Get your site cited by AI search.

Search is moving from a list of blue links to a single AI answer. The GEO Audit measures how ready your website is to be quoted and cited by AI search, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT search and Perplexity, then hands you the exact fixes to get there.

What it is

Generative Engine Optimization, SEO for the AI answer

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the practice of making your content easy for AI systems to understand, trust, and quote when they generate an answer. Classic SEO got you ranked in a list of links. GEO gets you named inside the answer itself, where most users now stop reading. The GEO Audit fetches your live site fresh, analyzes it against the signals AI engines actually rely on, and scores how citable you are today, with a clear path to improve.

Built for AI answers

Optimizes for being quoted in AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity, not just blue-link rankings.

Your real site, fetched live

Every audit pulls your page fresh (cache-busted), so the score reflects what AI crawlers see right now.

Fixes, not just a grade

Every issue comes with a concrete fix: a copy-paste AI prompt for content, or step-by-step technical instructions.

Why it matters now

The answer is the new first page

When someone asks Google, ChatGPT or Perplexity a question, the engine writes one answer and cites a handful of sources. If your brand is one of those cited sources, you win the attention; if it is not, you are invisible, no matter how you rank in the old ten blue links. GEO is how you make sure that when an AI talks about your topic, it talks about you. A key, often-missed fact: brand mentions correlate with AI citations far more than backlinks do, so the playbook is different from traditional SEO.

AI Overviews

Google increasingly answers directly above the results. Citable, well-structured pages get pulled in.

ChatGPT search

Millions ask ChatGPT instead of searching. It cites pages it can read and trust.

Perplexity

An answer engine built on citations, perfect for measuring how quotable your page is.

Zero-click reality

Users act on the answer, not the link. Being inside the answer is the whole game.

What we audit

Five weighted pillars of AI citability

The audit grades your page on the five factors that decide whether an AI engine will quote it, each scored 0-100 and weighted into your overall GEO score.

Citability 25%

Quotable, self-contained answer blocks, direct answers in the first 40-60 words, specific facts and stats with sources, and clear "X is..." definitions an AI can lift verbatim.

Structural readability 20%

A clean H1 to H2 to H3 hierarchy, question-based headings, short paragraphs, lists, tables, and FAQ formatting that machines parse cleanly.

Multi-modal content 15%

Relevant images, video and infographics with supporting structured data, the richer signals AI engines favor.

Authority & brand signals 20%

Author and credentials, publication and updated dates, citations to primary sources, and entity presence (Wikipedia, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn). Brand mentions matter more than backlinks here.

Technical accessibility 20%

Can AI crawlers actually reach and read you, server-side rendering, robots.txt access, llms.txt, and schema markup.

One weighted score

The five pillars combine into a single 0-100 GEO score and an A-F grade, so you always know where you stand at a glance.

The technical checks, run automatically

Beyond content, the audit inspects whether AI engines can even access your site, the part most teams miss.

AI crawler access (robots.txt)Checks whether GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot and Bytespider are allowed or blocked.
Server-side renderingAI crawlers do not run JavaScript. We measure the real text in your raw HTML to flag content that only appears after JS runs.
llms.txtDetects whether you publish an llms.txt guide that tells AI systems what your site is about and where to look.
Structured data (schema)Finds JSON-LD schema types (Article, FAQPage, Organization and more) that help engines understand your content.
Content signalsHeadings, lists, tables, images, videos, FAQ blocks, word count and freshness dates, extracted straight from your page.
Title & metaYour title and meta description, the first thing an engine reads to decide what your page is about.
What you get

A clear GEO score and a per-engine visibility breakdown

In about a minute you get a complete readiness report: one headline score, how you look to each AI engine, a full scorecard, and a prioritized list of what to change.

72/100 · B

GEO Readiness Report

A weighted overall score with an A-F grade and a 2-3 sentence executive summary that names your brand and the single biggest opportunity. (Example shown.)

Google AI Overviews

68

ChatGPT search

74

Perplexity

71
Recommendations that fix the problem

Every issue comes with a ready-to-apply fix

A score is useless without a fix. So for every problem found, the audit gives you one of two things, matched to the kind of problem it is.

For content problems

A copy-paste AI prompt

When the fix is about your words, headings, answer blocks, dates or media, you get a ready-made prompt, written around your brand and the exact gaps found, that you can paste into any AI writing assistant (or our AI Content Studio) to produce the fixed content.

Rewrite the intro of our pricing page so the first 50 words directly answer "How much does [Brand] cost?" with a specific starting price. Add a short FAQ block (3 Q&As) using question headings, and a one-sentence "What is [Brand]?" definition an AI can quote verbatim. Keep our voice: clear and friendly.
For technical problems

Step-by-step instructions

When the fix is technical, robots.txt, llms.txt, schema markup or server-side rendering, you get concrete, ordered steps with the exact files and directives to add.

  1. Open robots.txt at your site root.
  2. Allow AI crawlers: add User-agent: GPTBot then Allow: / (repeat for ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot).
  3. Publish an /llms.txt describing your site and key pages.
  4. Add Article + FAQPage JSON-LD schema to the page.
  5. Ensure key content is server-rendered, not JS-only.

Content fixes flow straight into the rest of the platform: hand the prompt to the AI Content Studio and publish the improved content to your site and blogs in a few clicks.

How it works

From your URL to a fix list in about a minute

No setup, no tags to install. The audit uses the website you already entered in Product & Branding.

1 · Connect your brand

Fill in your product name, description and website URL once in Product & Branding. That is all the setup there is.

2 · Run the audit

We fetch your page, robots.txt and llms.txt fresh, extract the signals, and score everything against the five pillars.

3 · Apply the fixes

Work through the top changes and quick wins, paste the content prompts, follow the technical steps, then re-audit to watch your score climb.

See how citable your site is to AI search

Run your first GEO Audit and get a score plus a prioritized list of fixes for AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity.