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 is definition pattern detection?

Definition pattern detection identifies sentence structures AI systems extract for direct-answer responses. Patterns like "AEO is the practice of..." or "Content velocity refers to..." are structures AI engines pull when answering "What is..." queries. Pages with clear definition patterns appear in direct-answer results at significantly higher rates.

What content licensing signals does the audit check?

The audit looks for machine-readable licensing metadata: CreativeWork license properties in JSON-LD, meta tags indicating reuse policy, copyright notices, ai.txt declarations, and TDM Reservation Protocol headers. Clear licensing tells AI systems whether they can quote or reference your content in their answers.

What are conditional audit criteria?

Conditional criteria are checks that only apply to certain site types. Product/Offer schema applies only to e-commerce. Hreflang only to multilingual sites. ai.txt/TDM policy only to sites with substantial original content. Speakable schema was previously conditional but is now an active scored criterion in the 48-criteria framework. The remaining conditional criteria supplement the 34 universal audit criteria.

What is topic coherence and why is it the heaviest AEO criterion?

Topic coherence measures how tightly your blog content clusters around related themes. It is still the single heaviest criterion in the framework. The scorer analyzes sampled pages, building term frequency maps and bigram clusters to detect thematic focus. Sites with scattered topics (AI, recipes, fitness) score low. When coherence drops below 6/10, a "coherence gate" caps your entire AEO Site Rank - no matter how perfect your technical implementation.

oxyzen.es - AEO Audit Report | 54/100

oxyzen.es

Moderate AI visibility with 29 of 48 criteria passing. Biggest gap: definition patterns.

Scoring Methodology

How Your AEO Site Rank Is Calculated

A weighted average of 48 deterministic criteria. Each scored 0-10, each with a specific weight. No AI judgment calls - every point is traceable.

Weak 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%9/10+9.0

Original Data10%3/10+3.0

Content Freshness7%7/10+4.9

Direct Answer Paragraphs7%4/10+2.8

Fact & Data Density5%9/10+4.5

Definition Patterns4%0/10+0.0

Query-Answer Alignment8%10/10+8.0

Content Cannibalization5%10/10+5.0

Subtotal71%+52.2

Structure5 criteria

Schema.org JSON-LD15%10/10+15.0

Clean, Crawlable HTML10%10/10+10.0

Semantic HTML55%6/10+3.0

Table & List Extractability7%3/10+2.1

Schema Coverage3%10/10+3.0

Subtotal40%+33.1

Discovery5 criteria

llms.txt10%10/10+10.0

robots.txt for AI5%5/10+2.5

Internal Linking10%9/10+9.0

Sitemap Completeness5%2/10+1.0

RSS/Atom Feed3%10/10+3.0

Subtotal33%+25.5

Trust Signals6 criteria

Entity Authority10%8/10+8.0

Content Licensing4%0/10+0.0

Author & Expert Schema4%2/10+0.8

Canonical URL4%10/10+4.0

Content Velocity3%2/10+0.6

Visible Date Signals4%3/10+1.2

Subtotal29%+14.6

Overall Score100%54/100

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 48 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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Citation Avg

Answer Readiness

~40% weight

6/10

Content Structure

~25% weight

7/10

Trust & Authority

~15% weight

6/10

Technical Foundation

~10% weight

6/10

AI Discovery

~10% weight

6/10

Verdict

Below-average AEO readiness at 54/100 - multiple areas need attention. Key strengths include llms.txt File, Schema.org Structured Data, and Q&A Content Format. Priority gaps: Definition Patterns, Content Licensing & AI Permissions, and Speakable Schema.

Top priorities

Definition PatternsStructure+10 pts

Content Licensing & AI PermissionsDiscovery+10 pts

Speakable SchemaTechnical+10 pts

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How to Improve

Current

54/100

Projected

84/100

34Total Fixes

9Quick Wins

~75hEst. Effort

Quick Wins

Configure robots.txt for AI crawlersLink orphan pages into site navigationAdd structured tables and listsAdd direct answer paragraphsAdd ai.txt and content licensingAdd visible date signalsIncrease content depth and structureImprove server response efficiencyReduce document weight

Fix

Impact

Effort

Create complete sitemap.xml

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

critical

medium

Create complete sitemap.xml

critical|medium

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

Reduce document weight

Trim oversized HTML, excessive DOM nodes, and large inline payloads that slow AI crawlers.

high

low

Reduce document weight

high|low

Improve server response efficiency

Optimize compression, cache headers, redirect chains, and HTML payload size for faster AI crawler access.

high

low

Improve server response efficiency

high|low

Reduce render-blocking resources

Minimize blocking scripts and stylesheets in <head> to improve content availability for AI crawlers.

medium

low

Reduce render-blocking resources

medium|low

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Score Breakdown

Criteria

Status

Potential

Score

Definition Patterns

critical+10 pts0/10

Content Licensing & AI Permissions

critical+10 pts0/10

Speakable Schema

critical+10 pts0/10

Owned Data Density

critical+10 pts0/10

Content Depth

critical+9 pts1/10

Evidence Packaging

critical+9 pts1/10

Sitemap Completeness

critical+8 pts2/10

Author & Expert Schema

critical+8 pts2/10

Content Publishing Velocity

critical+8 pts2/10

First-Hand Experience Signals

critical+8 pts2/10

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URLCitationSiteIn-linksCategoryIssuesWords

www.oxyzen.es/distincion-escorts-lujo-barcelona-ocio-excl...La Distinción de las Escorts de Lujo en Barcelona: Ocio Exclusivo en Piscinas y Jacuzzis

F24

content

959

www.oxyzen.es/distincion-escorts-lujo-barcelona-ocio-excl...F24

La Distinción de las Escorts de Lujo en Barcelona: Ocio Exclusivo en Piscinas y Jacuzzis

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Criterion

Delta

Schema.org Structured Data

9/10

10/10

Q&A Content Format

8/10

10/10

Query-Answer Alignment

7/10

10/10

Content Cannibalization

5/10

10/10

Topic Coherence

5/10

10/10

Content Depth

3/10

1/10

-2

Helpful Purpose Alignment

9/10

7/10

-2

First-Hand Experience Signals

4/10

2/10

-2

Creator Transparency

9/10

8/10

-1

Methodology Transparency

4/10

2/10

-2

Answer-First Placement

10/10

6/10

-4

Evidence Packaging

3/10

1/10

-2

Extraction Friction Score

3/10

6/10

Cross-Page Duplicate Content

5/10

10/10

Answer Capsule Pattern

4/10

2/10

-2

Sentence Atomicity

8/10

10/10

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Guides for the criteria with the most room for improvement

Criteria0/10

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 →

Criteria0/10

Content Licensing Signals

You want AI engines to cite your content. But have you actually told them they're allowed to? Most sites haven't -and AI systems default to conservative behavior.

Beginner·3 min readRead guide →

supplementary0/10

Speakable Schema Markup

Voice assistants need to pick which paragraph to read aloud from your page. Without Speakable markup, they guess -and they frequently guess wrong, reading your cookie notice.

Beginner·3 min readRead guide →

Criteria1/10

Content Depth: Why Thin Pages Are Invisible to AI

A 300-word page cannot compete with a 3,000-word deep dive for an AI citation. Content Depth measures the substance on your pages - word counts, heading structure, and the ratio of deep pages to thin ones across your site.

Intermediate·8 min readRead guide →

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