How does AI Search
see your website?
Check your site’s GEO, AEO, and SEO readiness, including AI crawler access, direct answers, metadata, headings, and canonicals.
Why Traditional SEO Fails in AI Search
AI engines don't rank links. They synthesize factual answers. If your website has these 4 common technical flaws, you become invisible.
1. Client-Side Rendering Trap
AI scrapers fetch raw HTML in milliseconds and often skip heavy JavaScript bundles. Single Page Apps return an empty <div id="root"></div>, leaving search engines blind.
2. The Fluff Preamble Problem
Traditional SEO padded articles with 1,500 words of background. Answer engines favor the Inverted Pyramid: concise 40–60 word definitions immediately under headings.
3. Missing Schema Grounding
Without Schema.org JSON-LD (FAQPage, TechArticle, Product), search models cannot verify author authority or factual entity relationships with high confidence.
4. Accidental Bot Blockers
Many publishers inadvertently block GPTBot or PerplexityBot in robots.txt thinking it only prevents training, when it actually cuts off real-time search traffic and citations.
The Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Checklist
Apply these 4 core engineering changes to make any web application instantly indexable and citable across all major conversational answer engines.
Deliver Core Text in Initial HTTP Payload
Use Next.js Server Components, Nuxt SSR, or Astro static generation. Never rely on useEffect client hooks to fetch documentation headings or product specs.
Embed FAQPage & Article Schema in SSR
Inject <script type="application/ld+json"> directly into the server template so AI bots parse Question/Answer pairs without running JavaScript.
Answer Prompts in the First 50 Words
Follow the Inverted Pyramid journalism style. State the answer, definition, or benchmark immediately in the opening sentence under each H2 heading.
Configure Explicit robots.txt Allow Rules
Declare User-agent: GPTBot and User-agent: PerplexityBot with Allow: / to signal that your domain welcomes conversational search citations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about preparing your web app for AI search.