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 checks for 38 issue types and returns a prioritized fix list with a 0-100 score.

An AEO audit checks whether a site is structured for AI assistants to cite it. It checks for question-shaped headings, FAQ schema, AI crawler access in robots.txt and an llms.txt file, all in one ordered fix list. AEO stands for answer engine optimization.

38 issue types in seven categories. They are technical SEO (noindex, robots.txt, sitemap, HTTPS redirect, canonicals), content quality, on-page (titles, descriptions, H1s), structured data, performance, AI search readiness and images.

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.

Small sites finish in a minute or two, and big sites take longer. The results appear once the whole audit is done. The instant check above audits one page in seconds.

Monthly for most sites, weekly for sites that ship changes often. Every deploy can introduce noindex tags, broken schema or missing titles. Audits run when you click the button, and the audit history shows your last six scores.

Yes. The audit reads your robots.txt for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and OAI-SearchBot. It flags a bot that robots.txt blocks from the whole site. A site that blocks these crawlers cannot be cited by the AI assistants they feed.

Yes. The instant check above audits one page with no signup. The Free plan adds 1 full audit a month of up to 25 pages, read from your latest link scan. 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 four checks: question-shaped headings, FAQ schema, AI crawler access in robots.txt and an llms.txt file. 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 at your site root.

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 reads your robots.txt for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and OAI-SearchBot, and names the ones it blocks.

The Free plan gets 1 audit a month of up to 25 pages. Paid plans cover bigger sites and more audits from $4.08 a month billed yearly. 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.