Is your content optimized for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and other AI answer engines? Find out in seconds with 28 checks across 5 categories.
Our AI readiness audit goes beyond traditional SEO — we check whether AI engines can actually find, understand, extract, and cite your content.
Publish dates, schema date markup, content recency, Last-Modified headers, and visible freshness signals.
Heading hierarchy, Article schema, FAQ schema, question-format headings, table of contents, meta robots & crawl access, and canonical URL.
Author attribution, author schema, authoritative citations, source diversity, and statistical data points.
Self-contained sections, sentence length, list formatting, data tables, readability score, and meta description quality.
Word count (2,000+), heading coverage, internal linking, multimedia with video, and content sectioning.
AI-powered search is replacing traditional results. Make sure your content gets cited.
Featured AI summaries at the top of Google search results, sourced from indexed web content.
OpenAI's web-connected search that cites sources directly in conversational answers.
AI-first search engine that always cites sources and links back to original content.
Google's AI assistant that synthesizes answers from web content with source attribution.
Everything you need to know about AI search readiness.
AI search readiness measures how well your content is optimized to be cited by AI-powered answer engines like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Gemini. Unlike traditional SEO, AEO focuses on content structure, extractability, freshness, and authority signals that AI systems use to select and cite sources.
Traditional SEO audits focus on meta tags, technical crawlability, and keyword optimization. Our AI search readiness audit evaluates whether your content can actually be extracted and cited by AI engines — checking for direct answer blocks, proper schema markup, content freshness, citation quality, and sentence-level extractability.
Each category evaluates a different dimension of AI readiness: Content Freshness (is your content up to date?), Structure & Schema (can AI engines parse your content?), Authority & Citations (do you demonstrate expertise?), AI Extractability (can AI pull direct quotes?), and Topical Depth (is coverage comprehensive enough to be a primary source?).
We recommend running an AI readiness audit every time you publish or update content, and at least quarterly for existing pages. AI engines heavily weight content freshness, so regularly updated pages maintain better visibility. Content older than 90 days without updates starts losing AI citation potential.
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