AEO is the whole product. NiceCite reads your live pages, scores six answer-engine signals — for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews — and ships the fixes that make your site easier to cite.
Six signals, each scored from evidence we pull from your live HTML.
Direct answers near the top of pages, FAQ blocks, clear headings, and quotable passages an AI can lift without ambiguity.
About and contact pages, consistent brand naming, social and entity signals so AI engines know who you are.
Organization, WebApplication, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, and Product/Offer where they fit — counted from live JSON-LD.
Contact info, methodology and reviewed-by language, testimonials and case studies where they actually appear.
Pricing, product or features, FAQ, about, contact, and service pages — the rooms an AI expects in a credible site.
Robots, sitemap, canonical tags, meta descriptions, and crawlability so AI fetchers can actually read the site.
Six small agents, one report. Each does one job well.
Measured facts come from the live crawl. Recommendations are AI-assisted interpretation of that evidence.
Same plumbing, different goal.
Helps pages earn a position in a list of links. Optimized for keywords, internal links, page speed, and the click-through that follows.
Helps AI engines understand, quote, and trust the page. The win is being named as a source inside an answer — not just being indexed.
NiceCite focuses on the citation signals AI engines lean on — direct answers, entity clarity, schema, and trust — while preserving the SEO basics that keep your pages crawlable in the first place.
Every number is traceable to something the crawl actually saw.
They overlap in the plumbing, but the goal is different — and so is the evidence that matters.
Robots, sitemaps, internal links, page speed, and keyword targeting that earn a position in a list of blue links. NiceCite uses these signals as input, not the goal.
Direct answers, entity clarity, schema that AI engines actually use, and trust signals that make a model comfortable naming your site as a source. This is the core of the NiceCite audit.
The same NiceCite AEO audit engine grades answer readiness, entity clarity, schema, trust, content coverage, and technical accessibility — with crawl evidence behind every number.
NiceCite is not an SEO suite with an AEO tab bolted on. AEO is the whole product — the same audit engine powers every page on this site.
Start free. Upgrade when you need depth, history, or client deliverables.
Short answers. No marketing fluff.
An AEO (answer engine optimization) checker reviews a website for signals that help AI answer engines understand, trust, and quote it. NiceCite reads your live pages and grades six signals: answer readiness, entity clarity, schema, trust, content coverage, and technical accessibility.
SEO is about ranking a page in a list of blue links. AEO is about being chosen as a source inside an AI answer. The work overlaps — clean HTML, structured data, fast pages — but AEO leans harder on direct answers, entity clarity, and citation-ready passages.
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. The score is the same evidence-based model for every engine; the recommendations call out signals each engine weighs more.
No. Nobody can guarantee placement in an AI answer or a search result. NiceCite gives you a deterministic score from what your live site actually contains, plus a prioritized fix list.
A live crawl of up to five pages, your overall AI citation readiness score, the six category scores, schema and entity findings, top fixes, and a shareable report. Three audits per month on a free account.
Scores reflect your live HTML at audit time. If a page changes, schema is added or removed, or new pages get indexed, the next audit will reflect that. Scoring is deterministic — same site, same score.
Robots and sitemap status, reviewed URLs, schema block counts and types, H1 text, word counts, meta descriptions, canonical tags, contact info exposure, and detected FAQ blocks. These are facts pulled from your HTML.
The fix list, copy suggestions, and roadmap are AI-assisted interpretation of the crawl evidence. Every recommendation is grounded in something the crawl actually found or did not find — no hallucinated metrics.
Yes. On a free or premium account you can spend generation credits to draft FAQ blocks, schema snippets, and answer-ready copy directly from the report.
It is not strictly required, but Organization, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, and a fitting application or product type measurably help AI engines name you, quote you, and link you correctly.
Yes. Premium adds deeper crawls, history, competitor comparison, monitoring, white-label PDFs, and 100 generation credits per month — built so you can ship client-ready reports without recreating decks.
Around 30 seconds for most sites. Larger sites with deeper crawl limits can take a few minutes.
Live crawl. Repeatable score from a locked page set. A prioritized fix list you can actually ship.