// WHAT IS A GEO AUDIT
Generative engine optimization starts with knowing where you stand
A GEO audit measures how well AI answer engines can find, understand, and cite your content. Unlike traditional SEO audits that check Google ranking factors like backlinks and keywords, a GEO audit focuses on the signals that matter to generative engines: schema markup, entity consistency, factual density, answer-first structure, and llms.txt.
The term generative engine optimization was introduced in a November 2023 Princeton study that showed targeted optimization can lift AI visibility by up to 40%. Since then, GEO has become its own discipline. Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude each have distinct citation behaviors. A GEO audit tests all five.
Traditional SEO and GEO are not the same thing. Only 6.82% of domains cited by ChatGPT overlap with Google's top 10 organic results. You can rank number one on Google and be invisible to AI engines. That is the gap a GEO audit measures.
// HOW THE AUDIT WORKS
60 seconds. No credit card.
Three steps from URL to actionable fix list.
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Enter any URL
Paste your URL into the audit bar. GeoXylia renders your page in a headless browser, just like AI systems do.
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Real citation check
We query Perplexity, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude with domain-relevant queries and check whether your site is actually cited. This is ground-truth data, not a prediction.
03
Get your score + fix list
Receive a 0-100 GEO score, per-engine citation breakdown, and prioritized recommendations ranked by impact. Start fixing within minutes.
// WHAT YOU GET
A complete GEO diagnostic, not a surface scan
GeoXylia is the only audit platform that verifies citations with real API calls.
Per-engine citation report
See exactly which engines cite you, which do not, and how your citation context compares to competitors.
13 diagnostic dimensions
Foundation tier (technical, accessibility, readability) and Visibility tier (citability, entity, brand, content, platform). Each independently scored.
Prioritized fix instructions
Every finding comes with rootCause and solution. We tell you what to fix first, second, and third.
Based on our 318-site, 5-vertical benchmark dataset. The median site scores below 50 out of 100.
See our full methodology and compare features.
// THE 7 FACTORS
What a GEO audit actually measures
- Brand search volume: How often users search for your brand on traditional search engines, which correlates with AI citation likelihood.
- Entity consistency: Whether your name, logo, and description are uniform across Wikipedia, Wikidata, Crunchbase, and social profiles.
- Information density: The ratio of factual claims, statistics, and named entities per 100 words of content.
- FAQ schema presence: Pages with FAQPage markup receive roughly 40% higher citation weighting from ChatGPT.
- Content recency: Perplexity cites content published in the last 30 days at an 82% rate. Stale content gets passed over.
- Answer-first structure: Content that answers a question in the first 2-4 sentences is 72.4% more likely to be cited by ChatGPT.
- Third-party validation: Citations from authoritative external sources (research papers, industry reports, government data) lift citation rates by 37%.
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