Answer engine optimization is making your site easy for AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews to find, read and quote. It builds on SEO: the same crawlable pages and clear structure, with extra care for questions, short answers and structured data.
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Can AI Find
Your Website?
See if ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini can find, read and quote your site, with a score out of 100 and a fix for every gap.
We read your page the way AI crawlers do: raw HTML, no scripts run. Use the score as a guide.
What we checkTwenty Checks, Five Groups,
Twenty Checks, Five Groups,
One Score
The signals answer engines rely on to crawl, read, understand, trust and quote a page, weighted by how much each matters.
- 4 checks, 25 points
Crawlable
Whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot and the rest are allowed in, and can find your pages.
- 3 checks, 20 points
Readable
What a crawler sees in the raw HTML, before any script runs, and how it is outlined.
- 5 checks, 25 points
Structured
JSON-LD and meta tags that tell a machine who you are and what each page is.
- 5 checks, 15 points
Trusted
Dates, company info and the basics that make a source safe to cite.
- 3 checks, 15 points
Citable
Questions and short answers an engine can lift as they are.
- What the score means
Invisible to AI 0 to 49
Partly visible 50 to 79
Ready to be cited 80 and up
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We Build Sites AI Can Read
We fix the gaps this check finds: crawler access, structured data, FAQ markup and llms.txt, on every page.
- Crawler accessEvery AI crawler allowed in, with a sitemap they can follow.
- Structured dataBusiness, page, breadcrumb and FAQ schema on every page.
- Answers up frontQuestion headings and short answers an engine can quote.