Get your website cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. Free 5-step audit, 12-item checklist, and tools to fix every gap โ no agency required.
The new organic discoverability for the LLM era โ measured by citation, not clicks.
Optimizes for ranked blue links on Google. The user types, scrolls, clicks. You are one of ten blue links on a results page.
Optimizes for citation inside AI answers. The AI writes a synthesized response and links to 1-5 sources. You are one of them โ or you are invisible.
Run our free AI Search Readiness Checker to see where your site stands across the four signals AI systems look at.
Three forces have converged. None of them are optional.
62% of online queries now happen inside AI tools (Statista). ChatGPT processes 1.2B queries per day; Perplexity serves 230M monthly users (+184% YoY).
Gartner forecasts 25% of search traffic shifts to AI chat in 2026. HubSpot's case study: organic traffic โ80%, but revenue +21% as AI-referred visitors convert better.
Global generative-engine optimization market hit $22B in 2026. Enterprise agencies charge $10K-$100K/year for the work you can do yourself in a weekend.
Three categories of AI bots. Getting this wrong in robots.txt is the #1 mistake.
OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended. Fetch pages in real time to power AI answers.
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider. Fetch pages to improve future model weights.
ChatGPT-User, Perplexity-User, Claude-User. Fetch on demand when a user clicks a link inside an AI answer. Always allow.
Blocking search crawlers by accident because your rule also blocks GPTBot. Use our AI Robots.txt Generator to build the right policy in one click.
Run this once. You will have a 90-day roadmap. Each step links to a free tool.
An llms.txt gives AI a human-readable summary. A correct robots.txt controls which AI crawlers can fetch. Validate with our validator.
JSON-LD schema tells AI what each page means. Add FAQPage, Organization, and Article. Three types cover 90% of LLM parsability.
AI parses content like a hurried human. Lead with a one-sentence definition, use H2 Q&A pattern, set canonical URLs to the version you want cited.
AI Overviews cite pages with strong off-site signals: Reddit mentions, Wikipedia entries, YouTube embeds, Schema.org compliant markup.
Ask ChatGPT and Perplexity your 10 customer questions weekly. Note when your brand starts showing up. Highest-ROI habit.
Free AI Search Readiness Checker โ scores your site across all 12 signals in under a minute.
Your punch-list. Each row links to the free tool that handles it.
They are not rivals. They are layers.
SEO = ranked blue links. GEO = cited inside AI answers.
SEO = position + CTR. GEO = citation rate + brand-mention share.
SEO = keyword density + backlinks. GEO = clean structure + plain-language + schema.
SEO = crawlable HTML. GEO = parseable structured data + crawler permissions.
SEO = weekly refreshes. GEO = continuous updates.
Keep every SEO investment. Add the AI-readability layer on top.
Most solo marketers complete this in a single weekend.
Generate llms.txt, configure AI robots.txt, add FAQPage schema to top 5 pages.
Organization schema, Article schema, plain-language definitions, internal links.
Ask ChatGPT + Perplexity your customer questions. Note which competitors get cited. Reverse-engineer the gap.
Add FAQ to high-traffic pages, expand llms.txt, audit robots.txt per subdomain.
Pitch for mentions on Reddit, Substack, YouTube. AI engines weight off-site brand mentions heavily.
๐ก If you do nothing else this quarter, do Days 0-3. About 90 minutes total.
You don't need an agency. You need five free tools and 90 minutes.
Run the free audit. Fix the top 3 missing items this week. Most sites see first AI citations within 30 days.
Run Free Audit (30s) โ10 questions marketers ask before they start.
AI search visibility measures how often your website is cited, linked, or paraphrased inside answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. It is the LLM-era equivalent of organic search ranking.
SEO optimizes for ranked blue links on Google; GEO optimizes for citation inside AI answers. The signals overlap, but GEO adds new signals like llms.txt, structured data, and explicit AI-crawler permissions in robots.txt.
No single file guarantees inclusion. But llms.txt is the lowest-effort, highest-clarity signal you can publish today, and ChatGPT-User, Perplexity-User, and Claude-User all fetch it on demand when a user clicks a link.
Most publishers block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, and Applebot-Extended (training crawlers) and allow OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot (search crawlers). Use our AI Robots.txt Generator to build the right policy in one click.
Start with FAQPage on your FAQ pages, Organization on your homepage, and Article on your blog posts. Three schema types cover 90% of LLM parsability. Generate with our FAQ Schema Generator.
Most sites see the first AI citations within 30-60 days of publishing llms.txt, schema, and structured FAQ content. Monitoring weekly is the highest-ROI habit.
AI Overviews is Google's specific AI summary feature. AI search visibility is the broader category that includes ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot.
Yes โ small sites often win because AI systems prefer specific, structured, up-to-date information. Niche authority beats brand size for AI citation.
No. Every tool on this site generates copy-paste files. Most solo marketers finish the full audit-to-fix loop in a single afternoon.
Use a static-file override plugin (WordPress), a Netlify _redirects rule, or a Cloudflare Worker. For Cloudflare-hosted sites, edit directly in the dashboard.