Getting cited by an AI engine is not luck; it is a set of auditable preconditions. The GEO study (Aggarwal et al.) measured it: "Through rigorous evaluation, we demonstrate that GEO can boost visibility by up to 40% in generative engine responses." The lift came from sourced statistics, quotations and clear structure, exactly the signals we test. Our 157-check audit tells you whether your site meets the conditions today.
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Crawlers let in. Content self-contained enough to lift. Facts sourced. Identity clear. Any one of those missing and you do not get cited; you do not even get considered.
When ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity pulls a passage from your site into an answer, something specific happened first: their crawler reached you, parsed your content without JavaScript, found a clean answer near the top of the page, and had enough context to attribute it to a named, trusted source. Any one of those steps missing and you are not in the running.
Most owners discover they are not being cited and assume the problem is "not enough content." Usually it is not. It is a robots.txt entry that unintentionally blocks OAI-SearchBot, or body copy that only exists after a JavaScript render, or a page that never states the answer outright in the first paragraph. The effort depends on the site and the cause. Why you're not cited by ChatGPT covers the common patterns.
Being citable is the precondition. Reachable, readable, quote-worthy. That is what this audit checks.
Your scan comes back with your citability signals graded alongside your overall score, every failure worst first, in plain English, with the source it stands on. Siblings: the AI visibility checker and your AI readiness score; the umbrella is the AI search optimization hub. For a complete picture, run the full AEO audit.
No. AI answers vary by prompt, session and user, and live answer monitoring is on our roadmap but not yet built. What we audit today is the measurable half you can act on: the crawler access, content structure and identity signals that determine whether AI engines can cite you at all. These fixes address the measured issues. Relevance, authority and actual audience response still need separate work and measurement.
Google indexing and AI citability overlap but are not the same problem. A page can rank on Google and still fail to be cited by AI engines because different crawlers, different content requirements and different quality signals apply. Our scan grades both separately.
Length is not the primary signal. AI engines prefer short, direct, self-contained answers with specific facts near the top of the page. A dense 3,000-word page with no clear opening answer is harder to cite than a focused 600-word page that opens with the answer and backs it with a source. See how to get cited by Claude and how to get cited by Perplexity.
No. llms.txt is optional and its presence does not establish citation eligibility or ranking benefit. Review crawl access and useful visible content first.
Yes. The scan covers up to 150 pages without an email address. Category scores and selected findings are free; the $10 Full Report unseals the page-by-page detail with the PDF, action plan and fix file.
Free scan of your whole site, up to 150 pages. No email. Worst problem first.
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