What an AEO Audit Is
An AEO audit is a structured assessment of a business’s current visibility and citation frequency across AI-driven search platforms. It measures how often and how accurately AI tools mention, describe, and recommend the business in response to relevant user queries.
Unlike a traditional SEO audit — which focuses on keyword rankings and backlinks — an AEO audit focuses on AI-specific signals: structured data completeness, entity clarity, content architecture, and citation frequency. The output is a baseline measurement of AI visibility and a prioritized roadmap of what needs to change to improve it.
The Five Components of a Professional AEO Audit
AI Citation Test
A systematic test of your business’s citation presence across major AI platforms using query variations that represent your customers’ actual search behavior. Establishes your baseline citation rate and reveals which platforms include you, which exclude you, and how accurately you are described when you appear.
Structured Data Review
A technical review of your website’s schema markup — what types are present, what is missing, what is implemented incorrectly, and what is outdated. Includes Organization, Service, FAQ, HowTo, and LocalBusiness schema as applicable.
Entity Clarity Assessment
A review of how your business is represented across your website, Google Business Profile, major directories, professional listings, and social profiles. Inconsistencies that reduce AI platform confidence are identified and prioritized for correction.
Content Gap Analysis
An assessment of the FAQ, HowTo, and conversational content your business is missing — the specific question-and-answer content that AI platforms look for when generating responses to service-related queries in your category.
Competitor Comparison
A review of how competitors in your category are performing in AI search — which ones appear consistently, what they have in their structured data that you do not, and where the competitive AEO gaps are largest.
What Self-Tests Miss
The manual self-test gives a directional signal but misses several important dimensions. It tests a limited number of queries. It does not review your structured data code for correctness. It does not benchmark your performance against competitors. And it does not identify the specific technical and content gaps causing your visibility problems.
A professional AEO audit covers all of these dimensions and delivers a specific, prioritized roadmap — not a general observation that “you should add schema markup,” but a precise inventory of what is missing and what implementing each fix requires.
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