What are the 48 AEO criteria?

The 48 criteria are organized into 5 pillars with fixed target shares: Answer Readiness 40%, Content Structure 25%, Trust & Authority 15%, Technical Foundation 10%, and AI Discovery 10%. Inside those pillars, criteria cover topic coherence, original data, depth, fact density, direct answers, Q&A structure, entity authority, freshness, visible dates, schema, semantic HTML, extraction friction, llms.txt, robots.txt, licensing, canonicals, sitemap coverage, and RSS. Each criterion is scored 0–10, converted into an effective weight after confidence and overlap controls, then rolled into the final score.

What does the RSS feed audit check?

The audit verifies your site has a discoverable RSS or Atom feed with proper metadata. It checks feed existence at common paths, a link tag in the HTML head, adequate item count, and pubDate per item. RSS feeds let AI indexing systems detect new content automatically without waiting for a full crawl.

What Schema.org markup helps with AI visibility?

The most impactful types: Organization (business identity), FAQPage (Q&A pairs), Article (author and publication info), BreadcrumbList (site hierarchy), and WebSite (site-level info). JSON-LD is the way to go. These help AI systems understand the structured meaning behind your text — not just the text itself.

How do I test if my structured data is valid?

Use Google's Rich Results Test or Schema Markup Validator to check syntax and required fields. Our audit also validates structured data as part of the Schema.org criterion. Common errors include missing required properties, wrong @type values, and orphaned schema blocks that reference entities not defined on the page.

What does the Growth plan add beyond Starter?

The Growth plan adds multi-engine audit coverage, content restructuring for Q&A extraction, expanded schema markup (Article, BreadcrumbList, FAQPage across all key pages), internal linking architecture improvements, and monthly re-audits to measure progress. It addresses the mid-weight criteria that separate average scores from strong ones.

bib-batteries.fr - AEO Audit Report | 60/100

bib-batteries.fr

Moderate AI visibility with 21 of 34 criteria passing. Biggest gap: rss/atom feed.

Energy & Cleantech Energy Technology

Scoring Methodology

How Your AEO Site Rank Is Calculated

A weighted average of 34 deterministic criteria. Each scored 0-10, each with a specific weight. No AI judgment calls - every point is traceable.

Moderate visibilityOut of 100 possible points

The Formula

Score = sum(criterion_score / 10 * weight * 100) / sum(weights)

Each criterion is scored 0-10 by deterministic checks, multiplied by its weight, and summed to produce a 0-100 overall score.

Your Score Breakdown

Content9 criteria

Q&A Content Format15%10/10+15.0

FAQ Sections10%3/10+3.0

Original Data10%7/10+7.0

Content Freshness7%2/10+1.4

Direct Answer Paragraphs7%7/10+4.9

Fact & Data Density5%10/10+5.0

Definition Patterns4%7/10+2.8

Query-Answer Alignment8%7/10+5.6

Content Cannibalization5%10/10+5.0

Subtotal71%+49.7

Structure5 criteria

Schema.org JSON-LD15%9/10+13.5

Clean, Crawlable HTML10%9/10+9.0

Semantic HTML55%6/10+3.0

Table & List Extractability7%5/10+3.5

Schema Coverage3%6/10+1.8

Subtotal40%+30.8

Discovery5 criteria

llms.txt10%10/10+10.0

robots.txt for AI5%5/10+2.5

Internal Linking10%8/10+8.0

Sitemap Completeness5%6/10+3.0

RSS/Atom Feed3%0/10+0.0

Subtotal33%+23.5

Trust Signals6 criteria

Entity Authority10%6/10+6.0

Content Licensing4%2/10+0.8

Author & Expert Schema4%2/10+0.8

Canonical URL4%7/10+2.8

Content Velocity3%2/10+0.6

Visible Date Signals4%0/10+0.0

Subtotal29%+11.0

Overall Score100%60/100

Score Ranges

86-100AI-first content architecture

71-85Strong AI visibility

56-70Moderate visibility

41-55Weak visibility

26-40Minimal visibility

0-25Not on the radar

Key Points

Topic Coherence carries the highest weight at 14%, followed by Original Data at 10%, across 34 total criteria.

No HTTPS means Clean HTML is capped at 3/10, costing approximately 3-4 overall points.

Every criterion uses deterministic checks. Same site, same audit, same score - every time.

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↑5 since v2

Answer Readiness

~40% weight

6/10

Content Structure

~25% weight

7/10

Trust & Authority

~15% weight

5/10

Technical Foundation

~10% weight

5/10

AI Discovery

~10% weight

6/10

Verdict

Moderate AEO readiness at 60/100 with significant gaps to address. Key strengths include llms.txt File, Q&A Content Format, and Fact & Data Density. Priority gaps: RSS/Atom Feed, Speakable Schema, and Visible Date Signal.

Top priorities

RSS/Atom FeedDiscovery+10 pts

Speakable SchemaTechnical+10 pts

Visible Date SignalTechnical+10 pts

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#9of 290 in Energy & Cleantech

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How to Improve

Current

60/100

Projected

100/100

31Total Fixes

8Quick Wins

~62hEst. Effort

Quick Wins

Configure robots.txt for AI crawlersAdd structured tables and listsAdd ai.txt and content licensingAdd visible date signalsImprove citation-ready writing qualityPackage evidence for AI enginesClarify entity boundariesReduce extraction friction

Fix

Impact

Effort

Configure robots.txt for AI crawlers

Update robots.txt to explicitly allow AI crawlers and include sitemap directive.

high

trivial

Configure robots.txt for AI crawlers

high|trivial

Create complete sitemap.xml

Generate a comprehensive sitemap with lastmod dates for all important pages.

medium

low

Create complete sitemap.xml

medium|low

Fix canonical URL strategy

Add rel="canonical" tags to all pages to prevent duplicate content confusion.

medium

trivial

Fix canonical URL strategy

medium|trivial

Fix HTML structure and meta tags

Ensure clean, well-structured HTML with proper meta tags, HTTPS, and parseable content for AI crawlers.

low

Fix HTML structure and meta tags

low|low

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Score Breakdown

Criteria

Status

Potential

Score

RSS/Atom Feed

critical+10 pts0/10

Speakable Schema

critical+10 pts0/10

Visible Date Signal

critical+10 pts0/10

Image Context for AI

critical+9 pts1/10

Content Freshness Signals

critical+8 pts2/10

Content Licensing & AI Permissions

critical+8 pts2/10

Author & Expert Schema

critical+8 pts2/10

Content Publishing Velocity

critical+8 pts2/10

Comprehensive FAQ Section

critical+7 pts3/10

Content Depth

critical+7 pts3/10

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Site Pages

URLSiteIn-linksCategoryIssuesWords

bib-batteries.com/blogBib batteries: Blog

content

779

bib-batteries.com/blog24

Bib batteries: Blog

bib-batteries.com/q-aQ&A

content

910

bib-batteries.com/q-a37

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Criterion

Delta

Comprehensive FAQ Section

0/10

3/10

Original Data & Expert Analysis

5/10

7/10

Content Licensing & AI Permissions

0/10

2/10

Author & Expert Schema

4/10

2/10

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Fact & Data Density

4/10

10/10

Query-Answer Alignment

4/10

7/10

Improve Citation-Ready WritingPackage Evidence for AIIncrease Fact & Data DensityImprove Query-Answer Alignment

Improve Your Score

Guides for the criteria with the most room for improvement

Criteria0/10

RSS Feed Presence & Quality

Sitemaps tell crawlers what exists. RSS feeds tell them what changed. If you don't have one, your new content waits days -or weeks -to be discovered.

Beginner·3 min readRead guide →

Criteria2/10

Schema Coverage Ratio

Your homepage has perfect JSON-LD. Your other 200 pages? Zero. Here's how we measure the gap -and why AI engines judge your whole domain by it.

Advanced·8 min readRead guide →

Criteria2/10

Fact Density Measurement

AI engines are citation machines -they need specific facts to quote. A page full of general advice with zero data points gives them nothing to work with.

Advanced·8 min readRead guide →

Criteria2/10

Definition Pattern Detection

"What is AEO?" -14% of all AI queries start with "What is." If your content doesn't answer with a clean definition sentence, someone else's will.

Intermediate·5 min readRead guide →