AEO Improvement
How to Appear in AI Search Results: A Practical Guide for 2026
Learn how to get your website cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. This guide covers on-site, off-site, and technical optimizations that increase AI search visibility for brands and businesses.
Audit, simulate, improve, and monitor
AEO Improvement checks citability, brand authority, AI crawler access, technical SEO, schema markup, and per-platform readiness. Recommendations include their evidence source and remain in a domain-level checklist until the user marks them complete.
Current methodology
Citation-path bots are scored separately from training bots. OAI-SearchBot controls ChatGPT search discovery while GPTBot is used for model training. llms.txt is treated as optional because it is not a demonstrated citation gate. Fresh, server-visible content and explicit last-updated dates receive higher priority.