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.

Can I request a re-audit of my website?

Yes. After making improvements based on audit recommendations, request a fresh audit to see your updated score. Each re-audit creates a new version you can compare against previous ones to quantify progress.

How long does it take for AEO changes to affect AI visibility?

Technical changes — Schema.org, robots.txt — get picked up by AI crawlers within days to weeks. Content changes — FAQ pages, Q&A restructuring — take weeks to months to be fully indexed and reflected in AI answers. Unlike SEO, there's no established timeline. AI systems re-index on their own schedules.

How often are benchmarks updated?

Automatically, whenever new audits are published. Each audit includes a timestamp so you know how current the data is. Industries with more audited domains have more reliable benchmarks. We're continuously expanding coverage across sectors.

riskcube.com - AEO Audit Report | 63/100

FALL 2024 riskcube.com

Moderate AI visibility with 35 of 48 criteria passing. Biggest gap: rss/atom feed.

Finance & Payments Corporate Finance Platforms

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.

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%9/10+9.0

Original Data10%8/10+8.0

Content Freshness7%2/10+1.4

Direct Answer Paragraphs7%2/10+1.4

Fact & Data Density5%5/10+2.5

Definition Patterns4%7/10+2.8

Query-Answer Alignment8%10/10+8.0

Content Cannibalization5%3/10+1.5

Subtotal71%+49.6

Structure5 criteria

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

Clean, Crawlable HTML10%9/10+9.0

Semantic HTML55%8/10+4.0

Table & List Extractability7%3/10+2.1

Schema Coverage3%9/10+2.7

Subtotal40%+32.8

Discovery5 criteria

llms.txt10%10/10+10.0

robots.txt for AI5%10/10+5.0

Internal Linking10%10/10+10.0

Sitemap Completeness5%2/10+1.0

RSS/Atom Feed3%0/10+0.0

Subtotal33%+26.0

Trust Signals6 criteria

Entity Authority10%10/10+10.0

Content Licensing4%2/10+0.8

Author & Expert Schema4%10/10+4.0

Canonical URL4%10/10+4.0

Content Velocity3%2/10+0.6

Visible Date Signals4%5/10+2.0

Subtotal29%+21.4

Overall Score100%63/100

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

8/10

Content Structure

~25% weight

7/10

Trust & Authority

~15% weight

7/10

Technical Foundation

~10% weight

7/10

AI Discovery

~10% weight

5/10

Verdict

Moderate AEO readiness at 63/100 with significant gaps to address. Key strengths include llms.txt File, Schema.org Structured Data, and Q&A Content Format. Priority gaps: RSS/Atom Feed, Image Context for AI, and Content Freshness Signals.

Top priorities

RSS/Atom FeedDiscovery+10 pts

Image Context for AITechnical+9 pts

Content Freshness SignalsTrust+8 pts

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How to Improve

Current

63/100

Projected

85/100

30Total Fixes

6Quick Wins

~62hEst. Effort

Quick Wins

Add ai.txt and content licensingIncrease fact and data densityAdd visible date signalsMake content creators clearly visibleExplain how content was tested or reviewedReduce extraction friction

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

Add internationalization signals

Implement hreflang tags and lang attributes so AI engines serve the correct language version when answering queries.

critical

medium

Add internationalization signals

critical|medium

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

Improve server response efficiency

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

medium

low

Improve server response efficiency

medium|low

Reduce document weight

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

low

Reduce document weight

low|low

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Score Breakdown

Criteria

Status

Potential

Score

RSS/Atom Feed

critical+10 pts0/10

Image Context for AI

critical+9 pts1/10

Content Freshness Signals

critical+8 pts2/10

Sitemap Completeness

critical+8 pts2/10

Direct Answer Paragraphs

critical+8 pts2/10

Content Licensing & AI Permissions

critical+8 pts2/10

Content Publishing Velocity

critical+8 pts2/10

Table & List Extractability

critical+7 pts3/10

Content Cannibalization

critical+7 pts3/10

First-Hand Experience Signals

critical+7 pts3/10

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URLCitationSiteIn-linksCategoryIssuesWords

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F39

docs

1,511

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F39

cases

1,511

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content

912

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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.

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Criteria1/10

Image Context for AI: Your Pictures Are Worth Zero Words Without Markup

AI can't see your images. It reads the markup around them. A product photo with alt="image1.jpg" tells AI nothing. A figure with a descriptive figcaption and 8-word alt text tells AI exactly what it's looking at - and that context feeds directly into citation decisions.

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Criteria2/10

Content Freshness Signals

No date on your page? AI engines treat it like a rumor -undated and deprioritized. Here's how we audit whether your timestamps are actually machine-readable.

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Criteria2/10

Sitemap Completeness

Your sitemap says 500 pages exist. Our crawl finds 700. Those 200 missing URLs? AI crawlers will never know they exist.

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