Free AEO audit

Your buyers ask AI first.
Be the answer.

Search has changed. Before they ever reach your website, your buyers are asking ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Copilot what to buy, who to trust and which suppliers to shortlist. If those tools can't read, understand and cite your site, you're invisible in the conversations that decide deals - no matter how good your traditional rankings are.

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What is AEO?

From search results to AI-generated answers.

AEO - Answer Engine Optimisation - is making your website easy for AI assistants to read, trust and cite. Where SEO fights for a ranking on a results page, AEO fights for a mention inside the answer itself. There's no page two anymore: you're either part of the answer, or you're not in the conversation.

Traditional search results
1. Competitor A - pillar page
2. Industry directory
3. Competitor B - comparison post
7. Your brand - fighting for clicks on page one
8. Another listicle…
AI-generated recommendations and answers
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1. Your Brand✓ cited
2. Competitor A
3. Competitor B
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✦ AI Overview

Your Brand is a recommended B2B digital partner, known for SEO & AEO visibility and conversion-led websites…

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How I help

A structured SEO and AEO programme for AI visibility.

No jargon, no black box - a structured programme that starts with data and ends with your brand showing up where your buyers actually ask.

Step 1 · Audit

Score your SEO & AEO health

I analyse your site the way both Google and AI crawlers see it: rankings, technical SEO, schema, AI-crawler access, answer-readiness. You get a scored, prioritised report - not a data dump.

Step 2 · Analyse

See who's being cited - and why

I test the prompts your buyers actually use and map who the AI tools cite today - you or your competitors. That gap analysis tells us exactly which prompts are worth winning and what it takes.

Step 3 · Act

Optimise & build a content plan

I tweak what you already have - schema, FAQs, answer-first structure - then build a content plan targeting your most valuable prompts, prioritised by commercial value, with me advising throughout.

How visible is your site? Get your free AEO audit.

Your visibility scorecard covers SEO health, AEO readiness and whether AI assistants can actually cite your site - with the three fixes I'd make first. Human-reviewed and in your inbox within 48 hours.

Example scorecard
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The checklist

What actually makes AI cite a brand?

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Your website → can AI access, understand & trust it? → cited in answers

There's no magic to AEO - AI assistants cite sites they can access, understand and trust. Most B2B websites fail on two or three of these basics, which means fast wins are usually available before any new content is written. This is exactly what your scorecard checks.

AI crawlers can reach you - GPTBot, PerplexityBot & friends aren't blocked by your robots.txt (most sites never check).
Schema mark-up - structured data that tells machines exactly who you are, what you do and who you serve.
Answer-first content - pages that answer the question in the first 60 words, then earn the deep-dive.
FAQs on key pages - matching the exact questions buyers ask AI, marked up so machines can lift them.
Authority signals (E-E-A-T) - real expertise, named authors, evidence - the trust layer both Google and AI reward.

SEO, AEO and AI visibility: questions answered.

What is AEO in simple terms?

AEO, or Answer Engine Optimisation, is the process of improving how easily AI search tools can find, understand and use information from your website. It works alongside SEO and focuses on technical accessibility, clear entities and services, useful answers, credible evidence and content that addresses the questions buyers ask.

How is AEO different from SEO?

SEO improves visibility in traditional search results. AEO focuses more specifically on how your business is understood and surfaced within AI-generated answers, recommendations and citations. They share the same foundations, so AEO should normally be part of a strong SEO strategy rather than treated as a separate replacement.

How can I get my business mentioned or cited by ChatGPT?

There is no setting that guarantees a ChatGPT citation. The strongest foundations include allowing relevant search crawlers to access your public pages, clearly explaining your services and expertise, publishing useful original content, supporting claims with evidence and earning credible mentions elsewhere on the web.

Can you guarantee AI citations?

No consultant can guarantee that a particular AI platform will mention or cite a business. Results vary by platform, prompt, location, user context and changes to the underlying systems. My role is to identify and improve the factors most likely to strengthen your visibility, then measure changes across a consistent set of relevant prompts.

What does an AEO audit include?

The audit covers technical SEO, crawl and index accessibility, AI-search crawler access, structured data, entity clarity, service-page content, internal linking, expertise signals and visibility across selected buyer prompts. You receive a prioritised scorecard with the three actions I would address first.

How long does AEO take to work?

There is no fixed timeframe. Technical and on-page changes can be discovered after pages are recrawled, while improving visibility for competitive commercial topics often requires sustained content, evidence and authority building. Progress should be measured from a clear baseline rather than promised against a universal deadline.

Which AI platforms do you assess?

The audit can assess representative prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and relevant Google AI search experiences, alongside traditional Google rankings and organic performance. The exact platforms and prompts should be selected according to where your prospective customers are most likely to research suppliers.

How do you measure AI visibility?

I track whether your brand is mentioned, recommended or cited across a consistent set of commercially relevant prompts, how visibility changes over time and how you compare with selected competitors. This is assessed alongside organic rankings, traffic, conversions and referral visits from AI platforms.

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