Find out why AI answers
leave you out.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews answer a lot of questions before anyone clicks a result. These free tools show whether they can read your pages, whether they trust what they find, and whether they already name you.
- No sign-up for a first check
- Results in about 10 seconds
What usually keeps a site out of AI answers
We see the same four problems on most sites we check. None of them takes long to fix once you know it’s there.
The AI crawlers are blocked
The answer is buried
AI tools can’t tell who you are
Nobody has checked
The free tools for AI search
Start with the Site AI Readiness Check for the whole picture, then go page by page with the AEO Analyzer.
Also useful here: Robots.txt Validator and Schema Generator.
Fix it in this order
Let the crawlers in
Run the Robots.txt Validator and the llms.txt Checker. Unblock the AI search crawlers you want citing you.Check your key pages
Run the AEO Analyzer on your 5 most important pages. Make the first fixes in its plan: the answer near the top, questions as headings, facts stated plainly.Say who you are
Add Organization or LocalBusiness schema with the Schema Generator, and keep your name, address and phone the same everywhere they appear.Measure it
Ask the AI Visibility Checker the questions your customers ask. Check again a month later to see what changed.
Read the guides
What answer engine optimization is
Schema for AI visibility
Writing for AI search
Want it done for you?
The tools show what’s wrong. If you’d rather not fix it yourself, this is what we offer.
AI search readiness
AI search visibility
SEO Clarity report
AI search questions
Mostly not. AI tools choose sources much as Google ranks pages: pages they can crawl, that answer the question clearly, from businesses they trust. A few things are new, like the AI crawlers, llms.txt and how often an assistant names you. These tools check both.
That depends on what you want. GPTBot collects text to train OpenAI’s models. OAI-SearchBot fetches pages to cite in ChatGPT search. You can block the first and allow the second, so your content stays out of training and can still be cited.
It’s a proposed standard, and no major AI company has said it uses the file to choose sources. It takes about 10 minutes and does no harm, so we add one for clients. Don’t expect it to change much on its own.
Crawlers usually pick up changes within a few weeks. Changes in how assistants describe you take longer, often 1 to 3 months, because they also go by what other sites say about you.
Yes. Most checks need no sign-up. The AEO Analyzer shows a preview first and the full report once you sign in with your email. Checks that ask AI assistants for answers use free monthly credits.
Ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude the questions your customers ask, and see who they recommend.