AEO Improvement
Methodology — How the AEO Improvement audit score works
How AEO Improvement scores a URL: the six pillars, where each recommendation comes from (Princeton/IIT Delhi GEO research, internal benchmarks, practitioner consensus), and exactly which claims we will and won't make.
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.