AI Engine Optimization: Beyond Search, Into AI Answers
You need beyond-SEO visibility: you want your brand, product, or advice referenced as a trusted source when people ask AI engines—not just Google, but ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude. That means optimizing for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), building the kind of technical and semantic footprint that earns you citations and links within AI-driven results.
Real AEO Score Checking—What Really Gets Audited?
- Structured Data coverage: Are your schema facts, entities and relationships recognized, complete, and correctly signaling your expertise?
- AI citation mapping: Where (if anywhere) does your brand appear as a direct citation in AI responses?
- Technical & entity indexing: Is your website structured for both search and LLM (Large Language Model) consumption?
- Panel, box, and snippet inclusion: What actual presence do you have in features where AI engines draw their canonical knowledge?
Why AEO Auditing Is Different
AEO auditing starts where traditional SEO audits stop. Instead of focusing purely on rankings or search traffic, it investigates how and why specific AI engines choose to cite or ignore your domain within AI-generated answers. This includes:
- Analysis of third-party knowledge sources commonly referenced by AI
- Fact-checking the completeness and accuracy of your structured data versus knowledge panel data
- Live, practical queries on ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity to see if your brand content is surfaced and cited
How DoodleWeb Canada Checks Your AEO Score
- Manual and automated tech review: Validate that all pages deliver robust, up-to-date schema, entity connections, and signals tuned for AI crawling.
- Live answer citation checks: Test your domain, brand, and flagship topics using real prompts across leading AI engines. Document where citations appear—or are missing.
- Knowledge source gap analysis: Compare your entity footprint to those commonly cited. Flag and prioritize your missing facts, profiles, and knowledge graph connections.
- Custom-fit next steps: Your audit comes with a prioritized action plan—what to fix, what to add, and where to build knowledge trust for the greatest gain in AI citations.
AEO Audit: How Is It Priced?
- DIY monitoring: Several DIY AEO tools exist, offering analysis of structured data, some citation checks, and tracking features.
- Agency reporting & manual audits: Custom AEO audits—including entity mapping, technical checks, and actual AI engine queries—are provided as a service by agencies like DoodleWeb Canada.
Who Needs an AEO Score Checker?
If you rely on answering, informing, or influencing online decisions—or are in competition for trusted advice in knowledge boxes, panels, or generative AI answers—you need to know:
- What facts, schemas and content are available to AI engines
- Which answers you get cited for (if any)
- What’s missing from your site and knowledge footprint preventing citations
The audit delivers a clear path to improved AI visibility—backed by technical and content action steps your team can implement directly or with our turn-key help.