Whether AI search engines quote your site
Whether AI search engines quote your site
This signal is helping buyers find and trust you.
Why this matters
Answer Engine Optimization determines whether AI search engines cite your content when users ask questions. When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overview a question about your industry, the AI decides which sources to quote. AEO is what puts you in that answer.
The 60-point threshold is critical: sites scoring below 60 are rarely cited by AI. Sites above 70 are in the top 15% of all indexed pages for AI citation frequency. The gap between being cited and being invisible is often just a few missing signals.
- Server-side rendered HTML (SSR or hybrid) so AI crawlers see full content
- Answer-first paragraph structure: direct answers in the first 100 words
- FAQPage + SpeakableSpecification + DefinedTerm schemas
- Author credentials via Person schema with verifiable expertise
- Publication dates on all content
- 10+ internal links per page signaling topical depth
- Zero images missing alt text
Site architecture
Server-Side Rendered (SSR)
Your site renders content server-side. AI crawlers receive complete HTML with all content on the first request. This is the correct architecture for AI discoverability.
2,366 words of visible content in the raw HTML response.
399KB total HTML payload.