SEO & AEO Website Audit: Find What Blocks Rankings and AI Citations

An SEO audit is a systematic check of the factors that affect how a site ranks: technical setup, on-page content, structured data and internal structure. This one runs over 120 checks and returns a prioritized fix list with a 0-100 health score.

An AEO audit checks whether a site is structured for AI assistants to cite it. It combines answer-block detection, question-heading analysis, FAQ schema validation, AI crawler access tests and llms.txt checks in one ordered fix list. AEO stands for answer engine optimization.

Over 120 factors in four groups: technical (status codes, redirects, canonicals, sitemaps, indexability), on-page (titles, descriptions, headings, images), structured data (JSON-LD validity and match with visible content) and AEO (answer blocks, question headings, AI crawler access).

SEO optimizes for ranking in a list of search results. AEO optimizes for being quoted in an AI-written answer. The overlap is large, but AEO adds requirements SEO ignores: quotable answer blocks, question headings, and access for AI crawlers like GPTBot.

A 25-page free audit finishes in under 2 minutes. Larger sites run at roughly 500 pages per minute, so a 10,000-page audit completes in about 20 minutes. Results stream in as pages finish, so the first issues appear within seconds.

Monthly for most sites, weekly for sites that ship changes often. Every deploy can introduce redirect chains, broken schema or noindex mistakes. Scheduled audits on paid plans compare each run against the last and flag regressions.

Yes. The audit tests robots.txt and server responses for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and others. A site that blocks these crawlers cannot be cited by the AI assistants they feed, however good its content is.

Yes. The free audit covers 25 pages per run with no signup, and the instant check above audits one URL in seconds. Free accounts get 1 audit a month. It is a real free SEO audit, not a trial: score, fix list and AEO checks included.

An AI SEO audit checks the factors that decide whether AI assistants can read and cite your site. Here that means five checks: answer blocks (a short direct answer placed right under a heading), question-shaped headings, FAQ schema, AI crawler access and llms.txt. The results sit in the same fix list as the classic SEO checks.

llms.txt is a plain text file at your site root that tells AI models where your key content lives. It is a proposed standard, similar to robots.txt but for AI answers. The audit checks whether the file exists and lists your important pages.

GPTBot is the web crawler OpenAI uses to gather content. If your robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ChatGPT cannot read your pages and will not cite them. The audit tests access for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended, so you know exactly which AI crawlers your site turns away.

This SEO audit is free for 25 pages per run. Paid plans cover bigger sites from $4.08 a month billed yearly, and a single extra audit costs $4.99. Manual audits from an agency usually cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. An automated SEO checker covers the standard checks for a fraction of that.