Answer the exact question first.
AEO content should lead with the useful answer, then explain limits, proof, and next steps. Do not bury the answer under brand language.
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Does your copy give a clear answer?
Paste one public page section, or load it from the live page. Our versioned heuristic checks literal question alignment, answer clarity, supplied evidence, entity-name presence, freshness, and human usability. It cannot verify a live AI answer, guarantee citation, or replace editorial review. It does not predict rankings or invent replacement copy.
Answer readiness check
A clear answer beats a long page.
The tool reviews whether one passage contains the question, direct answer, entity, evidence, and freshness signals a human or answer engine would need.
Attach evidence and context.
Dates, source labels, service area, proof, and visible page context help avoid vague claims. The tool scores these signals but does not verify live rankings.
Make the answer usable.
Readable language, accessible structure, and a clear next action matter as much as keywords.
Acceptance checks
What a useful next step can show.
- The question and answer are both visible in the passage.
- The answer names the business, service, location, evidence, or limitation where relevant.
- The page gives a next step without guaranteeing AI citations.
Decision questions
Before you choose the work.
Can this tool tell me if ChatGPT will cite my page?
No. It checks answer readiness signals in your visible copy. AI citations depend on many systems outside one page owner’s control.
What makes a passage answer-ready?
A clear question, short answer, named entity, useful evidence, current context, accessible structure, and a next step.
Should every page have FAQ content?
Only when the questions help a real buyer. Repeated or thin FAQs can make a page worse, not better.
03 / Honest boundaries
A useful content check.
Not an AEO promise.
- At most one public page is fetched, and only when you enter its URL; no logins or private networks.
- No invented citations, facts, authors, or freshness dates.
- No special-schema or “AI ranking” claims.
- The same passage always gets the same score.
- No AI-written rewrite—just a scored fix list.
- A bot check and per-visitor limits keep the tool fair to use.
04 / What AI engines cite
The answer has to live
on the right page.
In our Houston AI Citation Study, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, ChatGPT search and Claude search answered 112 price questions and 120 “who is the best” questions about Greater Houston services. For price questions, local business websites got 40.4% of the 4,200 citations, mostly to location, pricing and service pages; their homepages drew only 8.1% of those. For “who is the best”, directories and review sites took 49.8% of citations, and when a local business website was cited, it was most often the homepage.
| Page on a local business website | Price questions | “Who is the best” questions |
|---|---|---|
| Location or city pages | 32.8% (557) | 29.2% (402) |
| Pricing or cost pages | 26.9% (456) | 0.1% (2) |
| Service and other pages | 24.6% (417) | 8.6% (119) |
| Homepages | 8.1% (137) | 48% (662) |
| Blog posts and articles | 4.1% (70) | 0.7% (10) |
| Best-of lists | 3.4% (58) | 6.5% (89) |
| About or team pages | 0.2% (3) | 4.7% (65) |
| Reviews pages | 0% | 2.1% (29) |
| Citations to local business websites | 1,698 | 1,378 |
Shares of all citations that pointed to local business websites, from the study's published citation data (October 30, 2026; CC BY 4.0). The checker shows the same numbers for your question after each check.
So match the page to the question: put prices, ranges and what changes the cost on a pricing, service or city page, and make the homepage say plainly who you are, where you work and why you are a good pick.
Questions
About the AEO checker.
What kind of page do AI engines cite for price questions?
Mostly location or city pages (32.8% of citations to local business websites), pricing pages (26.9%) and service pages (24.6%), in our Houston AI Citation Study's 112 price questions. Homepages drew 8.1%.
What do AI engines cite when someone asks who is the best?
Mostly directories and review sites, which got 49.8% of all citations. When a local business website was cited, it was the homepage 48% of the time and a location page 29.2%.
Do question-style headings get a page cited?
Not by themselves. In the study, 68.5% of cited homepages had question-style subheadings, against 42.5% of the rest, but the link was explained by other factors. Use a question as the heading when it is the question the page answers.
Does the AEO checker fetch my page?
Only if you enter its URL. Then it reads that one public page and finds the section that best answers your question. Otherwise it checks only the copy you paste. Nothing you send is stored.
Is the AEO checker free?
Yes. The score, the signal breakdown, the best answer candidate and the cited-page comparison are free. Enter your name and email to unlock the full fix list.
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