Paste your URL and get an AIO readiness score. We check whether ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity's crawlers can reach you, whether your content is structured for them to quote, and exactly what to fix.
AI Search Optimization (AIO) is making sure AI engines can discover your content, understand it, and trust it enough to cite you in their answers. This scanner checks the specific technical signals that determine whether you’re AI-ready, and scores them 0 to 100.
AI-crawler access (are GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended allowed in robots.txt), structured data (can machines parse your business), FAQ schema (the format AI quotes most), llms.txt (the new standard for guiding AI), and answer-first content (does your page actually answer the question). Miss these and AI can’t cite you even if your content is great.
Blocking AI crawlers, often by accident. Many sites (and some hosting platforms) ship with robots.txt rules or a “block AI bots” setting that quietly tells GPTBot and others to stay out. If they can’t crawl you, they can never cite you. This scanner catches that immediately.
Paste your URL and the scanner fetches your site and checks the specific technical signals that decide whether AI engines can find, read, and cite you: whether AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended are allowed in your robots.txt, whether you have structured data a machine can parse, whether you use FAQ schema (the format AI quotes most), whether you have an llms.txt file, and whether your content is written answer-first. It scores those signals 0 to 100 and tells you exactly what to fix.
These are the architectural choices AI search optimization is built on, the AI-era cousin of regular SEO. The most common problem the scanner catches is a site blocking AI crawlers by accident: a robots.txt rule or a hosting setting that quietly tells GPTBot and others to stay out. If they cannot crawl you, they can never cite you, no matter how good your content is. Free helpers like our llms.txt generator cover one of the pieces the scanner looks for.
Be clear about the limits. This checks the on-page and technical signals that make your site quotable. It does not query the AI engines to see whether they currently mention you (the AI Visibility Checker does that), and it cannot measure the off-page trust from reviews, listings, and mentions that also drives whether AI recommends you. A strong score means your site is structured to be cited, not that citations are guaranteed or will appear on any set timeline.
It shares a foundation with SEO but adds AI-specific choices: AI-crawler access, an llms.txt file, answer-first structure, and schema aimed at being quoted. Many sites that rank fine in Google are still invisible to AI because they never made those choices.
Blocking AI crawlers by accident. Many sites, and some hosting platforms, ship with robots.txt rules or a setting that blocks AI bots, which tells GPTBot and others to stay out. If they cannot crawl you, they can never cite you. Check your robots.txt and your host or CDN settings and remove those blocks.