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GEO-readiness of your URL

Paste a page URL — we check the 14 signals AI engines use to decide whether to cite you. Free, a couple of seconds.

What this tool checks

A GEO check evaluates whether a specific page is built for AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews — to quote it as a source. These engines don't cite whole sites; they lift self-contained passages that carry a clear answer, verifiable facts and machine-readable markup, so a page that ranks well in classic search can still be invisible to AI. Scoring those signals shows exactly why a URL does or doesn't get pulled into generated answers.

What it looks at

Self-contained opener: The first paragraph that answers the page's core question without relying on earlier context; AI engines lift standalone passages, so a lede that only makes sense mid-article rarely gets quoted.
Question-phrased headings: H2/H3 subheads written as the questions users actually ask; they map directly to the prompts engines answer, turning each section into an extractable, quotable unit.
Citable statistics: Specific figures, dates and named sources embedded in the text; concrete, attributable claims are quoted far more often than vague generalizations.
Structured data (JSON-LD): Schema markup that labels the author, publish date and content type, letting engines parse who made a claim and how fresh it is before trusting it.
AI-crawler access: Whether robots.txt allows the crawlers AI answers actually use — OAI-SearchBot for ChatGPT search, PerplexityBot for Perplexity and Googlebot for AI Overviews; GPTBot and Google-Extended only govern model training, not answer citation, so blocking a citation crawler shuts the page out of that engine's answers.
Freshness signal: A visible last-updated date on the page; engines favor recent sources for time-sensitive queries, so an undated or stale page loses citations to newer rivals.

How to use it

Paste your URL into the checker and run the scan to score all 11 citation signals.
Review the flagged signals, starting with the highest-impact fixes at the top of the list.
Fix the weakest signals — rewrite the opener, add sources, or open robots.txt to AI crawlers — then re-run to confirm.

Frequently asked questions

Why does my page rank on Google but never get cited by AI?

Classic ranking rewards whole-page relevance, while AI engines quote self-contained passages with clear answers and verifiable facts. A page can rank well yet lack the answer-first structure, citable data or crawler access that generative engines require.

Do I need to be in the top position to get cited by ChatGPT or Perplexity?

No — AI answer engines pull sources from across the results, not just the top spot. A well-structured page ranking on page two can be cited over a poorly structured page-one result.

Does blocking AI crawlers hurt my citations?

Yes — but check the right crawler. For ChatGPT search citations that's OAI-SearchBot (GPTBot is only the training crawler); for Perplexity it's PerplexityBot; and Google AI Overviews rely on the standard Googlebot index, not Google-Extended (which only governs Gemini/Vertex use). If robots.txt blocks the crawler an engine actually uses to fetch answer sources, that engine can't cite you — so confirm access before anything else.

What is the single highest-impact GEO fix?

For most pages it's the opening paragraph: rewriting the lede into a direct, self-contained answer to the page's core question gives engines a clean passage to quote. The checker ranks fixes by impact so you can start there.

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