GEO · Generative Engine Optimization
Is your website visible to AI?
AI assistants now answer your customers' questions — before they ever reach your site. Sites that can't be crawled and cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google AI Overviews are losing traffic they never see. CiteReady finds the gaps and shows you exactly what to fix, in seconds.
3 free audits per day · no signup · results in ~10 seconds
What CiteReady checks
🤖 AI Crawler Access
Are GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot & co. allowed in your robots.txt? Do meta tags block snippets? Blocked bot = invisible in AI answers.
🧩 Structured Data
JSON-LD schema tells AI engines who you are and what your content is. FAQ & HowTo markup gets cited disproportionately often.
📝 Content Citability
AI answers quote passage-sized chunks, not whole pages. We check heading structure, paragraph length, Q&A formatting, freshness signals and overall content depth — the traits that decide whether your text is actually quotable by an assistant.
⚙️ Technical Foundation
The fundamentals AI crawlers still depend on: HTTPS, a clear title and meta description, canonical tags, Open Graph, an XML sitemap and the emerging llms.txt standard for machine-readable AI discovery.
Why AI search readiness matters now
Search is splitting in two. Alongside Google's familiar list of blue links, assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews now answer questions directly — often without the user ever clicking through to a website. When an assistant writes that answer, it draws its facts from a small set of sources it can crawl, parse and trust. If your site is not one of them, you are absent at the exact moment a potential customer is deciding.
These engines do not rank pages the way a classic search index does. They reward content they can extract cleanly: explicit crawler permission for GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, structured data that states who you are, passage-sized paragraphs that each answer a single question, and machine-readable freshness dates. A page that ranks first in traditional search can still be effectively unreadable to an AI assistant — different signals decide different winners.
CiteReady turns those signals into one 0–100 score with a concrete, prioritised fix for every gap it finds. The audit is fully deterministic — no language model and no randomness involved — so the same page always returns the same result, and you can re-run it after each change to confirm the fix actually landed. Free audits need no signup and finish in about ten seconds.
The signals also compound. Fixing crawler access first lets AI engines reach the pages whose structured data and citable passages you then improve, and machine-readable dates tell them the result is current rather than stale. That is why a single score across all four areas is more useful than checking any one of them in isolation — the weakest link caps how citable the whole page really is.
Pricing
Free
€0
- 3 audits per day
- Single-page audits
- Full report with all checks
- Actionable recommendations
- Manual re-checks anytime
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Pro
Stay cited — monitoring + the full API bundle
€2.99/month
- Automatic weekly monitoring + score history — catch regressions before the AI engines do
- Track up to 5 sites in one dashboard
- Multi-page audits (up to 10 pages via your sitemap)
- Full SpryTools API bundle — CiteReady API + 20+ APIs (screenshots, DNS, validation & more), one key, 10,000 calls/mo
- Cancel anytime
Secure checkout via Stripe. Your API key is issued right after payment.
FAQ
What is GEO?
Generative Engine Optimization — making your content easy for AI systems (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude) to crawl, understand and cite. It is the AI-era counterpart to SEO: instead of ranking #1, your goal is being the source an AI answer quotes.
How is the score calculated?
Four weighted categories: AI Crawler Access (30%), Content Citability (30%), Structured Data (20%) and Technical Foundation (20%). Every check is pass, warn or fail with a concrete recommendation.
Do you store my data?
No. Audits run on demand and are returned to your browser — we do not store your reports or crawl data. Pro accounts only store your email and a hashed API key for billing.
What do I get with Pro?
Continuous monitoring — weekly automatic re-audits with score history for up to 5 sites, so you catch regressions over time. Plus multi-page audits (up to 10 pages from your sitemap per run) and the full SpryTools API bundle (CiteReady API + 20+ APIs) under one key with 10,000 calls/month.