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Eric Strate’s Free AEO Checker audits one public webpage for Answer Engine Optimization, GEO and AI search readiness using a proprietary page-level analysis of search fundamentals, entities, answer structure, evidence, structured data and citation readiness.
Link to this answerFree AEO Checker
Audit one webpage for Answer Engine Optimization, GEO, Google AI Overview and AI search readiness.
Enter a public URL to receive an AEO Readiness Score, six category ratings and the highest-priority areas that deserve attention. The scoring methodology stays proprietary; the free result gives you a useful diagnosis without exposing the full implementation framework.
Public HTML pages only. One page is fetched per audit. No login, email gate, AI API or sitewide crawl.
- Free
- No account
- Single-page audit
- Proprietary scoring
- Citation readiness
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Want to Know How Your Brand Performs Beyond This Page?
Your automated analysis is complete. A page-level score cannot show which competitors appear when buyers ask AI systems for recommendations, which sources influence those answers or why your business may be missing from important AI-search results.
The Professional AI Search Visibility & Strategy Assessment investigates those questions and turns the findings into a prioritized strategy for your business. Professional assessments start at $5,500 and cover research, diagnosis and strategic direction; hands-on implementation is not included in the assessment scope.
Request an AssessmentProfessional AI Search Visibility & Strategy Assessment
This is not an automated report, a generic SEO audit or a monthly optimization package. I personally investigate how your business and competitors are represented across AI-driven search experiences and connect those findings back to your website, content, entities, authority and traditional SEO foundation.
Buyer-Intent Prompt Testing
Research and testing around commercial questions potential customers may ask when evaluating businesses, services or products in your market.
AI Search Visibility Analysis
Analysis of where your brand appears, where it does not appear, how it is represented and which competitors are being surfaced across relevant AI search experiences.
Competitive AEO Analysis
Investigation into competitors earning mentions, recommendations or citations, including the content, entities, sources and search signals associated with that visibility.
Citation & Source Analysis
Identification of websites, publishers and other sources that repeatedly influence important AI-generated answers in your market.
Technical SEO & AEO Review
A review connecting AI-search findings back to crawlability, information architecture, content structure, entity clarity, supporting evidence, structured data and traditional search fundamentals.
Strategic Opportunity Analysis
Separation of meaningful opportunities from AEO busywork, with recommendations prioritized by potential value rather than by the number of issues that can be placed in a report.
90-Day Strategic Roadmap
A prioritized plan your existing SEO team, agency, developers, content team or marketing department can execute.
Private Strategy Walkthrough
A private meeting with Eric Strate to present the findings, explain the reasoning behind the recommendations and answer questions from your team.
SEO Experience Since 2012. Focused on the Next Era of Search.
I have worked in SEO since 2012, with experience spanning technical SEO, local search, competitive analysis and automotive search. My current work focuses on Answer Engine Optimization, Generative Engine Optimization and the changing relationship between traditional search and AI-driven discovery.
I am also the creator of the Web Answer Citation Protocol (WACP), an experimental publishing architecture designed to make concise publisher-authored answers uniquely addressable while preserving the supporting information and provenance needed to evaluate them.
The Free AEO Checker, WACP and my ongoing AI-search testing are part of that work. The professional assessment is where I apply that experience directly to your business.
Standard scope: one business, one primary website and one primary market. Large websites, multiple brands, multiple countries or unusually complex competitive environments may require a custom scope.
This is a research, diagnosis and strategy engagement. Hands-on website implementation is not included in the Professional Assessment. I identify what matters, explain why it matters and provide a prioritized roadmap your existing team, agency, developer or website vendor can execute.
Two different $5,500 starting engagements: the Professional AI Search Visibility & Strategy Assessment is the broader diagnosis-and-roadmap engagement. My ChatGPT SEO Strategy & Optimization service is focused specifically on ChatGPT buyer visibility and can include scoped hands-on optimization where platform access and project scope permit.
Both currently start at $5,500, but they are not interchangeable packages. Final scope is confirmed before work begins.
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Not every business needs a professional assessment. Submit your website and a brief description of what you want to understand about your AI-search visibility. I personally review each request to determine whether the engagement is a good fit and confirm scope before any payment is required.
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The Free AEO Checker evaluates six page-level areas: search foundation, entity clarity, answer readiness, evidence and trust, structured data, and citation readiness.
Link to this answerWhat Does the Free AEO Checker Analyze?
The checker is designed around the parts of a webpage a publisher can actually improve. It does not claim access to proprietary Google, ChatGPT or other AI ranking systems. For ongoing measurement rather than a one-page diagnostic, see this AI visibility monitoring software example.
Search Foundation
Core page signals such as titles, descriptions, H1 structure, canonicalization, indexability, language, mobile viewport and page substance.
Entity Clarity
How clearly the page identifies its person, organization, service, product or primary subject across visible content and structured data.
Answer Readiness
Whether question-led sections contain direct, self-contained answers with enough surrounding context to remain useful.
Evidence & Trust
Signals such as attribution, first-hand experience, source links, dates when relevant, About and Contact pathways, and support for factual claims.
Structured Data
JSON-LD validity, entity schema, duplicate identifiers, semantic HTML and consistency between machine-readable and visible content.
Citation Readiness
Stable anchors, answer passages, source support, lists and tables, original evidence signals and clear section boundaries.
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Yes. The Free AEO Checker also functions as a page-level GEO checker and AI search audit because AEO, GEO and AI search optimization overlap around discoverability, entity understanding, useful answers, evidence and retrieval structure.
Link to this answerIs This Also a Free GEO Checker and AI Search Audit?
Yes, with an important qualification. Answer Engine Optimization and Generative Engine Optimization describe overlapping work around search and AI-assisted discovery. This free AEO tool therefore evaluates many of the same page-level factors someone may be looking for when searching for a GEO checker, AI search readiness checker, AEO audit tool or generative search optimization tool.
I do not create separate scores simply to match every acronym. The same page still needs a strong technical foundation, useful information, clear entities and content that can be retrieved without losing important context.
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The checker evaluates page-level factors relevant to Google AI Overview readiness, but it cannot predict or guarantee inclusion because third-party tools do not have access to Google’s internal ranking or AI Overview selection systems.
Link to this answerDoes the AEO Checker Test Google AI Overview Readiness?
It evaluates factors that can matter to a page’s overall search readiness, including technical accessibility, useful content, entities, answer structure and supporting evidence. It does not claim to measure an internal Google AI Overview score.
That is why this tool treats AEO and GEO as extensions of good search practice rather than rewarding unsupported tactics such as special AI-only markup, mandatory llms.txt files or arbitrary content chunk sizes.
Read Google Search Central’s generative AI optimization guidance.
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The AEO Readiness Score is a proprietary 0–100 page-level assessment combining six categories. It measures observable webpage signals, not a hidden score used by Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity or another answer engine.
Link to this answerWhat Is an AEO Readiness Score?
A single number is useful only when its limits are clear. The score summarizes observable page-level signals into a consistent diagnostic so you can compare stronger and weaker pages without pretending the score came from an AI platform itself.
Repeatable
The same HTML is evaluated against the same internal framework, making before-and-after comparisons more useful.
Page-Type Aware
A homepage, service page and article do not need identical signals, so the analysis accounts for page context.
Deliberately Limited
The score cannot measure off-page authority, real AI citations, prompt demand, private analytics or a search engine’s internal decisions.
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The Free AEO Checker evaluates observable signals on one webpage. Eric Strate’s Professional AI Search Visibility & Strategy Assessment investigates the larger competitive environment, including buyer-intent AI searches, brand visibility, competitors, influential sources and the strategic changes most worth pursuing.
Link to this answerWhat Is the Difference Between the Free Checker and a Professional Assessment?
The free checker answers a narrow but useful question:
The professional assessment investigates a different question:
That requires research beyond the submitted webpage, including buyer-intent prompt testing, competitive investigation, citation and source analysis, website review and professional interpretation.
The free checker remains useful as a diagnostic tool. The professional assessment is designed for businesses that need a strategic decision-making framework rather than another automated score.
The Professional Assessment is diagnosis and strategy, not hands-on implementation. If the immediate goal is ChatGPT-specific research plus scoped optimization and implementation, see my ChatGPT SEO Strategy & Optimization service.
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The Free AEO Checker was built by Eric Strate, an SEO and AI-search strategist whose search experience dates to 2012 and who created the Web Answer Citation Protocol (WACP).
Link to this answerWho Built the Free AEO Checker?
The tool was built by Eric Strate, an SEO and AI-search strategist with search experience dating to 2012. My work combines technical SEO, search intent, entity clarity, AI-search testing and publishing experiments such as WACP rather than treating AEO as a replacement for traditional search fundamentals.
That distinction is important because a useful AEO audit should separate observable webpage problems from claims that no third-party tool can verify.
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This page uses WACP 4.0, Eric Strate’s experimental publishing architecture connecting a primary query and related fan-out questions to uniquely addressable publisher-authored Answer Objects, visible supporting content and a matching semantic mirror.
Link to this answerA Live Answer Architecture Experiment
This page implements the Web Answer Citation Protocol (WACP 4.0). Each major section has a stable answer identifier, a concise publisher-authored Answer Object, the primary or fan-out question it resolves, visible supporting content and a matching semantic representation below.
WACP is optional and remains experimental. The Free AEO Checker does not evaluate, reward or recommend WACP as part of its audit score. This page uses WACP only as a live publishing experiment while the checker evaluates broadly applicable page-level signals.
Need to Understand Your Actual AI Search Visibility?
A page score is only one piece of the picture. The Professional AI Search Visibility & Strategy Assessment examines your brand, competitors, buyer-intent searches and citation environment to determine where the meaningful opportunities exist.
Professional assessments start at $5,500.