Audit Your Site for AI Search Performance
A technical SEO, AEO, and GEO audit that scans your entire site, scores every page for AI search readiness, and gives you proactive recommendations on exactly what to fix. Schema markup, entity density, structured data, citation signals. You get a prioritized action plan so your content performs across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and every major AI engine.
A technical SEO, AEO, and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) audit evaluates whether AI search engines can access, understand, and cite your content. It checks that GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot are not blocked, validates schema markup and heading structure, scores entity density, and measures page speed.
The Problem
Your pages look fine on the surface
The issues are underneath.
Traditional SEO tools check rankings and backlinks. They do not cover AEO or GEO. They cannot tell you whether AI crawlers can access your pages, whether your schema is complete, or whether your heading structure helps ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity extract answers from your content.
AI crawlers blocked by robots.txt
Many sites accidentally block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot in their robots.txt. If AI crawlers cannot access your pages, your content will never appear in AI search results.
Missing or malformed schema markup
AI engines rely on structured data to understand what a page is about. Without JSON-LD schema like Article, FAQPage, or Product, your content lacks the context AI engines need to cite it.
Poor heading structure
AI engines extract answers by following H1, H2, and H3 hierarchy. When headings are missing, duplicated, or out of order, AI systems struggle to identify the key information on your page.
Low entity density
Content that references specific people, products, organizations, and concepts is more likely to be cited. Generic copy without named entities gets skipped by AI engines.
Slow page speed
Page performance affects how AI crawlers assess content quality. Slow-loading pages with render-blocking resources signal lower reliability to AI systems evaluating sources.
No speakable markup
Voice assistants and AI engines use SpeakableSpecification to identify key passages. Without it, your best content is invisible to systems deciding what to read aloud or cite.
Crawlability & Schema
Can AI engines actually access and understand your pages?
RankAgent starts by verifying that GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot are not blocked by your robots.txt. Then it scans every page for JSON-LD structured data, reporting which schema types are present, missing, or malformed. The audit covers Article, FAQPage, HowTo, Product, Organization, BreadcrumbList, SpeakableSpecification, and more.
Content Quality Analysis
How strong is each page's content for AI citation?
AI engines prefer content with specific named entities, clean heading hierarchy, and sufficient depth. RankAgent counts entity mentions per page, validates H1 through H3 structure, checks for thin content, and compares against competitors who are currently being cited. Pages that lack named references or skip heading levels get flagged with specific fixes.
Proactive Fix Queue
What should you fix first to improve AI visibility?
After scanning, RankAgent generates a prioritized queue of fixes with proactive, AI-powered guidance on exactly what to change. Each recommendation includes the affected page, the specific issue, the expected impact on AI visibility, and implementation instructions. Unblocking a crawler in robots.txt might take five minutes but unlock visibility across an entire engine.
The audit at a glance
Built For
Who is the audit built for?
SEO Teams
Surface schema gaps, entity density issues, and structured data errors across every client page. Traditional SEO tools check rankings. This checks whether AI engines can actually cite the content.
Content Teams
See exactly which pages need entity enrichment, better headings, or citation-worthy claims. The fix queue tells you what to rewrite first.
Agencies
Complement traditional SEO reports with AI readiness data. Show clients exactly where their schema, heading structure, and entity density fall short of what AI engines need to cite them.
CTOs / Dev Teams
Get structured, actionable fix tickets for schema markup, structured data, and metadata issues. Each recommendation includes implementation details.
What the Audit Covers
A complete technical assessment of every page's readiness for AI search citation.
Can AI crawlers actually access my site?
The audit checks your robots.txt for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and other AI crawler directives. It also scans for redirect chains, broken links, and slow pages that prevent AI systems from reliably crawling your content.
Is my content structured for AI citation?
Every page is checked for JSON-LD schema markup, heading hierarchy (H1 through H3), entity density, and SpeakableSpecification. The audit scores how well each page communicates its topic to AI engines that need to decide whether to cite you.
Which pages should I fix first?
Every issue is ranked by expected impact on AI visibility. Unblocking a crawler in robots.txt takes five minutes but can unlock an entire engine. The fix queue surfaces these high-impact, low-effort wins at the top.
Does it give me proactive recommendations?
Yes. The audit does not just flag problems. It generates specific, actionable fixes with implementation details. Missing Article schema on your blog? You get the exact JSON-LD to paste in. AI crawlers blocked? You get the robots.txt lines to update.
How the Audit Works
Connect Your Site
Provide your domain and RankAgent begins crawling. The initial scan covers up to 500 pages, checking AI crawler access, schema markup, heading structure, entity density, page speed, and structured data completeness.
Review the Audit Report
Each page receives an AI readiness score from 0 to 100. The report highlights crawler access issues, missing schema types, heading hierarchy problems, low entity density, and page speed bottlenecks.
Work Through the Fix Queue
Issues are ranked by expected impact on AI visibility. Each fix includes the affected page, the specific problem, and step-by-step implementation instructions your development team can act on immediately.
Track Score Improvements
As your team implements fixes, RankAgent re-scans and updates scores automatically. Watch your overall AI readiness score climb as schema gaps close and entity density improves across your site.
Frequently Asked Questions
A technical SEO and AEO audit is a page-by-page assessment of your website's readiness for both traditional search engines and AI search engines. It covers Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) by checking AI crawler access, schema markup, heading structure, entity density, page speed, structured data quality, and speakable markup. The result is a scored report with proactive, prioritized recommendations.
Yes. The audit verifies that GPTBot (ChatGPT), ClaudeBot (Claude), PerplexityBot, and other AI crawlers are not blocked by your robots.txt file. Many sites accidentally block these bots, which means their content never appears in AI search results regardless of quality.
The audit checks for Article, FAQPage, HowTo, Product, Organization, BreadcrumbList, SpeakableSpecification, WebPage, and LocalBusiness schema. Each page is evaluated for which types are present, which are missing, and which contain validation errors.
AI engines extract answers by following the H1, H2, and H3 hierarchy on a page. When headings are missing, duplicated, or out of order, AI systems cannot reliably identify the key topics and answers. The audit validates heading structure on every page and flags issues.
Entity density measures how many named people, products, organizations, places, and concepts appear in your content relative to total word count. AI engines prefer content with high entity density because it contains specific, verifiable information rather than generic language.
RankAgent provides proactive, AI-powered recommendations for every issue found. Missing Article schema on your blog? You get the exact JSON-LD to paste in. GPTBot blocked? You get the specific robots.txt line to update. Every fix includes implementation details your team can act on immediately.
Ahrefs and SEMrush are built for traditional SEO. They check for broken links, redirect chains, and crawl errors on Google. They do not check whether GPTBot or ClaudeBot can access your pages, whether your heading structure helps AI engines extract answers, or whether your content has the entity density and schema markup that AI search engines need to cite you.
The initial audit scans up to 500 pages on your domain. After the initial scan, RankAgent monitors continuously and scans new pages as they are published. Large sites with more than 500 pages can be scanned in batches.
The audit is designed for your own domain. For competitive analysis, use RankAgent's Competitor Intelligence module, which tracks how competitors perform across all seven AI engines and identifies the content and structural advantages they have over your site.
See Your Site's AI Readiness Score
Book a 30-minute call and we will run a live audit on your top 10 pages. See your schema gaps, entity density scores, and prioritized fixes before you commit to anything.