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Free Answer Engine Optimization audit. Paste any URL — we check if AI bots can crawl, parse and cite your content. 240+ checks across SEO + AI visibility in 30 seconds. No signup.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring your website so AI-powered answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Google’s AI Overviews — can read, understand, and cite your content as a trusted source.
Traditional SEO optimizes for a page ranking in ten blue links. AEO optimizes for a sentence or paragraph being lifted into an AI-generated answer with attribution back to your site. In 2026, AI Overviews fire on roughly 58 % of all Google queries and zero-click searches have climbed past 72 %. If your pages aren’t citable, you’re invisible in the new search experience.
AEO sits on top of classic SEO, but it adds four new requirements: AI crawler access (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot), citable content blocks (40–80 word self-contained paragraphs), structured data heavy on FAQ / HowTo / Article schema, and verifiable EEAT signals (named author, outbound citations, freshness stamps, entity disambiguation).
Every SlapMyWeb scan runs all six pillars in parallel and returns a 0–100 AEO score with prioritized fixes — plus full SEO, performance and security audits in the same report.
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended each follow different rules. We check robots.txt, server headers, and rate-limit signals for every major AI crawler.
LLMs lift sentences and paragraphs, not pages. Your content needs to be quotable in 1-3 sentence chunks with clean attribution paths.
Google AI Overviews cite FAQPage, HowTo, Article and Product schema disproportionately. We validate every JSON-LD block against rich-result eligibility.
AI models weight author credentials, citation density, freshness and entity-relationship strength. We score every signal Google’s Quality Rater Guidelines flag.
Knowing your AEO score is step one. Step two: tracking whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews actually cite you for the queries that matter.
AEO sits on top of classic SEO + Core Web Vitals. If your page is slow, broken or unindexable, no amount of structured content will save you.
No signup. No credit card. We fetch the page with both static + headless rendering paths.
Crawl, content, schema, mobile, security, performance, AI visibility — all running simultaneously.
A 0–100 AEO score, prioritized issues, and copy-paste code snippets for the top fixes.
Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of structuring your website so that AI-powered answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Google’s AI Overviews — can read, understand, and cite your content as a trusted source. It builds on classic SEO but adds requirements for AI crawlers, citable content blocks, structured data, and verifiable EEAT signals.
Traditional SEO optimizes for a page ranking in 10 blue links. AEO optimizes for a sentence or paragraph being lifted into an AI-generated answer with attribution. The key differences: AEO weights structured data and FAQ formatting heavier, requires content blocks that are quotable in isolation (40-80 word chunks), and adds new crawl-access requirements for AI-specific bots like GPTBot and PerplexityBot.
At minimum: GPTBot (ChatGPT training + retrieval), OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT browsing), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), PerplexityBot, Google-Extended (Gemini training), and Applebot-Extended. Blocking any of these removes you from that engine’s answer index. The SlapMyWeb AEO audit checks robots.txt and Cloudflare bot policy for each major AI crawler.
Under 30 seconds. SlapMyWeb runs all 240+ checks across 16 specialist modules in parallel — you paste a URL, get a complete AEO + SEO score, prioritized fixes, and copy-paste code snippets without signing up.
Yes — the full audit, score and fix recommendations are free with no signup. Paid plans (Pro / Agency / Enterprise) add unlimited scans, white-label PDF reports, AI citation tracking across ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini, and multi-client dashboards.
They’re largely synonyms. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) emphasizes being cited by chat-style answer engines. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) emphasizes appearing in generative AI search results like Google AI Overviews and Bing Copilot. SlapMyWeb covers both under a single AI Search Visibility score.
Drop a URL. 30 seconds. Free forever. The full AEO + SEO + performance audit, plus the code to fix what’s broken.