# AEO Content AI

> AEO-optimized content built to be cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Free AI visibility audit, original-data articles, and a content engine that ranks for AI engines.

## About

AEO Content AI audits websites for AI engine visibility (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) and produces original-data content built to be cited. Free audit at https://audit.aeocontent.ai.

## Key resources

- [Free AI visibility audit](https://audit.aeocontent.ai/scan?from=marketing) - score any site across 53 AEO criteria.
- [How it works](https://www.aeocontent.ai/#how-it-works) - audit, identify gaps, publish original-data content.
- [Pricing](https://www.aeocontent.ai/pricing) - Growth $99/mo, Premium $250/mo, Business $500/mo.
- [FAQ](https://www.aeocontent.ai/faq) - common questions about AEO.
- [Research approach](https://www.aeocontent.ai/research-driven) - why original data is the only content AI engines cite.

## Documentation

- [Developer guide](https://www.aeocontent.ai/docs/guide) - audit, optimize, and monitor AI visibility programmatically.
- [Getting started](https://www.aeocontent.ai/docs/guide/getting-started) - API key setup and first audit in curl, Python, TypeScript.
- [Authentication](https://www.aeocontent.ai/docs/guide/authentication) - API keys, permissions, rate limits.
- [Scoring system](https://www.aeocontent.ai/docs/guide/scoring) - 53 criteria across 5 pillars.
- [Agent Fix Loop](https://www.aeocontent.ai/docs/guide/agent-loop) - autonomous audit-fix-verify cycles.
- [REST API reference](https://www.aeocontent.ai/docs/reference/api) - endpoints at https://audit.aeocontent.ai/api/v1.
- [MCP tools reference](https://www.aeocontent.ai/docs/reference/mcp) - 59 Model Context Protocol tools.
- [Studio docs](https://www.aeocontent.ai/docs/studio) - skills, content workflow, voice profiles, templates.

## Articles

- [How to run a 17-point AEO content audit on your pages](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/how-to-run-a-17-point-aeo-content-audit-on-your-pages) - An AEO content audit evaluates each page against the 17 structural criteria that AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity use when deciding what to cite. (2026-08-18)
- [What earns a Google AI Overview citation, snippet or not](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/what-earns-a-google-ai-overview-citation-snippet-or-not) - Holding the Google featured snippet does not determine whether a page earns a Google AI Overview citation. The dominant predictor is passage-level extractability - whether AI can lift a self-contained, direct answer from immediately after a question-format heading. (2026-08-14)
- [Do custom GPTs get your brand named in ChatGPT answers?](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/do-custom-gpts-get-your-brand-named-in-chatgpt-answers) - No. Publishing a custom GPT does not make ChatGPT name your brand more often in its default answers. (2026-08-13)
- [Why one page wins a ChatGPT citation but loses in AI Overviews](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/why-one-page-wins-a-chatgpt-citation-but-loses-in-ai-overviews) - A page earns a ChatGPT citation through entity corroboration - when independent sources confirm the same claims about your brand or product, ChatGPT treats that consistency as a trust signal. (2026-08-12)
- [Where a ChatGPT-and-spreadsheet AEO workflow breaks down](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/where-a-chatgpt-and-spreadsheet-aeo-workflow-breaks-down) - The ChatGPT-and-spreadsheet AEO workflow is a valid starting method for measuring brand visibility in AI-generated answers, but it breaks down past roughly 25 tracked URLs across five engines. (2026-08-11)
- [Every AI SEO tool should pass this five-engine coverage test](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/every-ai-seo-tool-should-pass-this-five-engine-coverage-test) - Not all AI SEO tools measure the same surfaces. The five-engine coverage test grades every tool on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews - and most fail. (2026-08-11)
- [One company, two AI descriptions: ChatGPT vs Gemini](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/one-company-two-ai-descriptions-chatgpt-vs-gemini) - ChatGPT and Gemini describe the same company differently because they draw from different source hierarchies. (2026-08-10)
- [Cost per AI citation: the metric your AEO budget is missing](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/cost-per-ai-citation-the-metric-your-aeo-budget-is-missing) - Cost per AI citation = total AEO program spend in a period / net new engine citations earned in that period. (2026-08-09)
- [For B2B niches, your own pages out-cite digital PR](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/for-b2b-niches-your-own-pages-out-cite-digital-pr) - In B2B niches with thin third-party coverage, digital PR is not required to earn AI citations. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews default to the deepest available source on a topic - and in narrow verticals, that source is your own structured, expert-authored page. (2026-08-07)
- [How often AI engines state a wrong fact about your brand](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/how-often-ai-engines-state-a-wrong-fact-about-your-brand) - The short answer: AI engines including ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews regularly state incorrect facts about brands - wrong pricing, retired products, misattributed contact details, and departed executives. (2026-08-06)
- [Does a higher AEO Rank actually earn more AI citations](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/does-a-higher-aeo-rank-actually-earn-more-ai-citations) - Yes - but not linearly. Across sites scored in the AEO Content corpus, AEO Rank predicts citation likelihood only above a threshold of roughly 73 out of 100 . Below that floor, improving your score by 10 points lifts citation rates by about 12%. (2026-08-05)
- [How often Perplexity cites the wrong source: a 2026 accuracy test](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/how-often-perplexity-cites-the-wrong-source-a-2026-accuracy-test) - The Short Answer (2026-08-04)
- [Do AI Overview tools work? Google says there is no special lever](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/do-ai-overview-tools-work-google-says-there-is-no-special-lever) - No specialized tool gets your content into Google AI Overviews . Google's published guidance confirms there is no separate ranking system - the same organic Search eligibility applies. (2026-08-03)
- [Score AI-search vendors yourself with a 5-signal rank rubric](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/score-ai-search-vendors-yourself-with-a-5-signal-rank-rubric) - Score any AI-search vendor across five signals: measured citation lift (before-and-after citation data from a real client over a defined period), engine coverage (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews tracked independently), first-party data use (a documented... (2026-08-02)
- [The best AI-search agencies run a closed loop, not a content dump](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/the-best-ai-search-agencies-run-a-closed-loop-not-a-content-dump) - The best AI-search agencies run a closed operating loop: they monitor citations continuously, create structured content, score every published page against AEO criteria, and refresh pages on a fixed cadence before citations decay. (2026-08-01)
- [What changed when we rewrote 20 pages for AEO: before and after](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/what-changed-when-we-rewrote-20-pages-for-aeo-before-and-after) - Reformatting pages for AEO - answer-first structure, question H2s, FAQ sections, bold key facts - is necessary but not sufficient to gain AI citations. Across 20 pages tracked for six weeks, formatting changes alone produced zero measurable citation gains in nine pages . (2026-07-31)
- [How Often Should You Update a Page to Stay Cited by AI Search?](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/how-often-should-you-update-a-page-to-stay-cited-by-ai-search) - Update a page for AI search when one of three measured signals drops: citation frequency in ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews; search ranking below the top 10 for the target query; or structural extractability. (2026-07-30)
- [By 2027, ChatGPT-only AEO vendors will miss half of buyer answers](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/by-2027-chatgpt-only-aeo-vendors-will-miss-half-of-buyer-answers) - By 2027, AEO vendors that track only ChatGPT will likely miss roughly half of B2B buyer answers. (2026-07-30)
- [How to Measure Whether AI Search Is Actually Sending You Traffic](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/how-to-measure-whether-ai-search-is-actually-sending-you-traffic) - Measuring AI search traffic means combining four signals: GA4 custom channel segmentation, server log analysis for citation bots, a dedicated monitoring tool such as Rankability or Peec AI, and self-reported attribution surveys at conversion. (2026-07-29)
- [The two ways ChatGPT names a brand, and how to earn both](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/the-two-ways-chatgpt-names-a-brand-and-how-to-earn-both) - ChatGPT names a brand through one of two mechanisms: live browsing (it retrieves a current web page and extracts the brand from it) or model memory (it recalls the brand from training data with no web access at all). (2026-07-29)
- [How many sources Perplexity actually cites per answer in 2026](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/how-many-sources-perplexity-actually-cites-per-answer-in-2026) - In 2026, Perplexity names 5 to 7 sources per answer in Standard mode and 7 to 9 in Pro Search , with Agent mode reaching 9 to 14. What the engine reads is a different matter altogether. Standard mode retrieves roughly 10 to 20 pages before composing a response. (2026-07-28)
- [The AI-search agencies worth hiring build on your first-party data](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/the-ai-search-agencies-worth-hiring-build-on-your-first-party-data) -  (2026-07-20)
- [Your all-in-one SEO suite is not an answer-engine tool](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/your-all-in-one-seo-suite-is-not-an-answer-engine-tool) -  (2026-07-19)
- [How to optimize for ChatGPT answers and prove it drove traffic](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/how-to-optimize-for-chatgpt-answers-and-prove-it-drove-traffic) -  (2026-07-18)
- [Turn your support docs and mentions into ChatGPT-cited answers](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/turn-your-support-docs-and-mentions-into-chatgpt-cited-answers) -  (2026-07-17)
- [How to verify an AI-search vendor actually lifts your citations](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/how-to-verify-an-ai-search-vendor-actually-lifts-your-citations) -  (2026-07-16)
- [The content-ops model that keeps AEO articles citable at scale](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/the-content-ops-model-that-keeps-aeo-articles-citable-at-scale) -  (2026-07-15)
- [How Perplexity's 2026 agent mode narrows the domains it cites](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/how-perplexity-s-2026-agent-mode-narrows-the-domains-it-cites) -  (2026-07-14)
- [Which optimization platform actually moved our ChatGPT citations](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/which-optimization-platform-actually-moved-our-chatgpt-citations) -  (2026-07-13)
- [Schema alone will not get you into Google AI Overviews](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/schema-alone-will-not-get-you-into-google-ai-overviews) -  (2026-07-12)
- [The citation surface: what makes content 'AEO content'](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/the-citation-surface-what-makes-content-aeo-content) -  (2026-07-11)
- [Most AI-search vendors cannot show one measured citation](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/most-ai-search-vendors-cannot-show-one-measured-citation) -  (2026-07-10)
- [Do ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini need different content?](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/do-chatgpt-perplexity-and-gemini-need-different-content) -  (2026-07-09)
- [AI SEO tools in 2026 are splitting into two stacks](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/ai-seo-tools-in-2026-are-splitting-into-two-stacks) -  (2026-07-08)
- [Which sources Perplexity actually cites: a 60-query teardown](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/which-sources-perplexity-actually-cites-a-60-query-teardown) -  (2026-07-07)
- [Best AI search optimization companies, ranked by citations](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/best-ai-search-optimization-companies-ranked-by-citations) - The best AI search optimization companies in 2026 are the ones whose clients appear by name in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. (2026-07-05)
- [Who optimizes content for voice search and AI assistants](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/who-optimizes-content-for-voice-search-and-ai-assistants) -  (2026-07-04)
- [Top AI SEO and AEO tools compared by engine coverage](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/top-ai-seo-and-aeo-tools-compared-by-engine-coverage) -  (2026-07-03)
- [Top companies that get brands ranked in ChatGPT answers](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/top-companies-that-get-brands-ranked-in-chatgpt-answers) -  (2026-07-02)
- [Best agencies for AI search content optimization in 2026](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/best-agencies-for-ai-search-content-optimization-in-2026) -  (2026-07-01)
- [How Perplexity picks and cites sources in 2026](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/how-perplexity-picks-and-cites-sources-in-2026) -  (2026-06-30)
- [How to tell if an AI SEO agency's claims are real](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/how-to-tell-if-an-ai-seo-agency-s-claims-are-real) -  (2026-06-29)
- [AEO specialist companies compared on engine coverage](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/aeo-specialist-companies-compared-on-engine-coverage) -  (2026-06-29)
- [Best platforms for ChatGPT content optimization in 2026](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/best-platforms-for-chatgpt-content-optimization-in-2026) -  (2026-06-28)
- [Best AEO companies in 2026 scored on citation share](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/best-aeo-companies-in-2026-scored-on-citation-share) -  (2026-06-27)
- [Top firms ranking brands in ChatGPT, by citation share](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/top-firms-ranking-brands-in-chatgpt-by-citation-share) -  (2026-06-26)
- [Does AEO help voice search and AI assistant answers](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/does-aeo-help-voice-search-and-ai-assistant-answers) -  (2026-06-24)
- [Best agencies for AI search content, scored by results](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/best-agencies-for-ai-search-content-scored-by-results) -  (2026-06-23)
- [AEO client churn risk: how to spot it before it shows up in QBR](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/aeo-client-churn-risk-how-to-spot-it-before-it-shows-up-in-qbr) -  (2026-06-09)
- [From 55 to 82 in 6 Weeks: HelpSquad's AEO Rank Iteration Story](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/helpsquad-55-to-82-case-study) - HelpSquad moved its AEO Rank from 55 to 82 in six weeks — with one regression to 55 along the way. The clean lift came from Content Structure work that took the pillar from 6.8 to 9.1. (2026-05-29)
- [Speakable Schema: The 99.4% Gap Hiding in Every Site's AEO Rank](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/speakable-schema-99-percent-gap) - 99.4% of the 13,385 sites we scored fail Speakable Schema. The median score is zero. Here's why it's the cheapest AEO Rank lift left on the table. (2026-05-29)
- [The State of AEO 2026: What 13,385 Sites Tell Us About AI Citation Readiness](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/state-of-aeo-2026-corpus-analysis) - We scored 13,385 unique domains on AEO Rank. The median is 47, only 32 sites clear 70, and just 2 reach 80. Here's what separates the top from the middle. (2026-05-29)
- [The Top 32: What the Only Sites Scoring 70+ on AEO Rank Do Differently](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/top-32-domains-what-they-do-differently) - Out of 13,385 sites, just 32 clear AEO Rank 70. We analyzed all of them. Four patterns explain the gap - none of them are about word count or backlinks. (2026-05-29)
- [Trust & Authority Is the Weakest AEO Rank Pillar. Here's Why.](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/trust-and-authority-weakest-pillar) - Across 13,385 sites, Trust & Authority averages 3.7 - the lowest of the five AEO Rank pillars. The five weakest criteria reveal what AI engines actually want. (2026-05-29)
- [Eligibility for Reddit monitoring across regulated industries](https://www.aeocontent.ai/blog/eligibility-for-reddit-monitoring-across-regulated-industries) - Which regulated industries can use Reddit monitoring? This guide covers HIPAA, FINRA, legal, and insurance compliance requirements and how to set up Reddit intelligence without violating sector rules. (2026-05-14)

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