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GEO checker: could an AI engine quote this page?
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Paste one article URL
A blog post, guide or comparison page. Not your homepage: the AI readiness checker covers the site as a whole.
We fetch it as a crawler does
One request for the page and one for your homepage, without running JavaScript, so you see what an AI crawler sees.
Read five verdicts with evidence
Each check shows what we found on the page and, when it fails, the fix, written for your CMS when we can tell which one it is.
A real run
Example result
Semrush’s guide to generative engine optimization, checked on 9 October 2026. It is the page Google’s AI Overview linked for “what is generative engine optimization” the same day. Four checks pass. The fifth is a warning: the post is not linked from the semrush.com homepage, which is all one free check can see.
4 of 5 checks pass
“Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): A Practical Guide” reads as an article (Article JSON-LD), about 2,055 words.
Detected Next.js, from Next.js page data in the HTML. Fixes below are written for it.
Has something an engine can lift verbatim
Pass4 thing(s) an engine can quote on their own.
- definition: "Generative engine optimization (GEO) is …"
- a list with 4 items
- a table
- a figure: "ChatGPT hit 100 million users faster than any app in history."
Engines quote sentences that stand on their own: a definition, a list, a table, a number. Prose that only makes sense in context does not get lifted.
Article schema with a real author and dates
PassArticle schema with a headline, a named author and both dates.
- Article
- 2025-06-06T16:47:00Z
Article JSON-LD is how an engine knows this is a dated, attributed piece rather than a landing page. This check describes attribution metadata; it does not establish whether an engine will cite the page.
Engines can tell it is current
PassLast dated 16 Apr 2026, by dateModified.
- dateModified 2026-04-16
Dates indicate when a page was published or reviewed. An old or missing date is a reason to review accuracy, not proof that its content is wrong or that it cannot be cited.
Answers before the first subheading
Pass96 words of answer before the first subheading, in the title's own terms.
- 96 words before the first subheading
- "AI-generated answers are now part of how people search When a prospective customer asks Google a question they"
- shared: generative, engine, optimization
An engine reads the opening paragraph to decide whether the page answers the question. A post that opens on a heading, an image or a story gives it nothing to decide with.
Reachable from another owned page
Worth fixingNot linked from the homepage. We cannot see the rest of the site here; the full audit checks every page you publish.
How to fix it: Link the post from your blog index, a related post, or a page in your navigation.
A post only the sitemap knows about is a post crawlers rarely re-read. Internal links are how they find it and how they weight it.
The five checks
Has something an engine can lift verbatim
Engines quote sentences that stand on their own: a definition, a list, a table, a number. Prose that only makes sense in context does not get lifted.
Article schema with a real author and dates
Article JSON-LD is how an engine knows this is a dated, attributed piece rather than a landing page. A named person as author is part of why it gets quoted.
Engines can tell it is current
Engines prefer the newest page that answers the question. A post with no date loses to a worse post that says it was updated last month.
Answers before the first subheading
An engine reads the opening paragraph to decide whether the page answers the question. A post that opens on a heading or an image gives it nothing to decide with.
Reachable from another owned page
A post only the sitemap knows about is a post crawlers rarely re-read. Internal links are how they find it and how they weight it.
A GEO audit tool for one page
Most GEO audits grade a whole site and hand back a score. This one grades a single article, because that is the unit an engine quotes: the answer to a question comes from a page, not from a domain. Run it on the post you most want cited, fix what it finds, and run it again.
For the site-wide version, the GEO audit runs these five checks on every article you publish, adds the eight site checks from the AI readiness checker, and puts each page next to its Google demand and how often engines cite it.
What is left out on purpose
Title length, meta description length, alt text, readability scores, word count, keyword density, broken links and page speed. Every one of them is something Ahrefs, Screaming Frog or a fifty-page agency audit will already tell you, and none of them is why an engine passed over a page. Keeping them out is what leaves room for the finding that matters.
Every day, not once
The GEO audit
The free check runs once, on one URL. The GEO audit keeps the results for your site, turns failures into To-dos, and rechecks a page after you fix it.
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All free toolsQuestions
What is a GEO checker?
A tool that tests a page for generative engine optimization: whether an AI engine like ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google’s AI Overview could find something on it worth quoting and attribute it. This one runs five checks on one page and shows the evidence for each verdict.
Which page should I paste?
One blog post, guide or article, not your homepage. The five checks are about whether a piece of writing can be quoted; the homepage is graded by the AI readiness checker instead, which asks whether the site can be read at all.
Is this a GEO audit?
It is a GEO audit of one page. A full GEO audit runs the same five checks on every article on a site, adds the eight site-level checks, and keeps the results so a fix can be rechecked. That is the paid GEO audit, which this tool is a slice of.
Why only five checks?
Because title length, alt text, readability scores and word counts are a commodity every crawler sells, and none of them is why an engine failed to quote a page. The five here are the ones that change whether a sentence from the page can be lifted into an answer.
It says my page is not an article. What does that mean?
The tool classifies the page from its own markup: Article or BlogPosting JSON-LD, og:type, an article element with a date, or a byline with a date. If none of those are present, engines have the same trouble telling it is a dated piece of writing. The evidence line names which signal decided it.
Can it tell me whether an engine has cited this page?
Not here. The AI Overview checker shows whether Google’s Overview links it for a keyword, and the AI visibility checker shows the pages four engines cite for a question. Tracking every page against every question is the paid product.
Track it every day instead of once
CueScout runs these checks on a schedule and turns the gaps into To-dos.