Tests whether ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Bing Copilot can confidently extract and cite your content. This combines Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO — structuring for direct answers) and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO — structuring for citation). There's no single ratified standard here yet; checks combine emerging conventions like llms.txt with established structured-data specs, and we're explicit about which is which.
Grounded in emerging community conventions (llmstxt.org), schema.org JSON-LD vocabularies, and published vendor guidance from Google Search Central, Microsoft Bing Webmaster, and OpenAI's crawler documentation.
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What's checked
- Discovery — llms.txt, AI crawler access (GPTBot, ClaudeBot)
- Answer structure — direct-answer opening, definition blocks, Q&A headings
- Structured data — FAQ/HowTo/Article schema, speakable schema
- Citability — author entity, named sources, quotable summaries, original data
- Readability — paragraph length, topic sentences, no hidden content
20 points. 33 checks (17 AEO + 16 GEO). One published framework.
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