# AEO Score

> Free AEO score checker: paste a URL or text and get a 0–100 answer-engine optimization score across 8 dimensions, with the top fixes to make your content AI-ready.

AEO (answer engine optimization) is structuring content so AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — can extract and cite it. Guidance here is source-grounded and avoids unverified citation guarantees.

## Tools

- [AEO Score Checker](https://aeoscored.com/score): Free 0–100 answer-engine optimization score across 8 dimensions, with the top fixes.

## Guide

- [Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): The Complete Guide to Making Content AI Engines Can Cite](https://aeoscored.com/answer-engine-optimization): What answer engine optimization is, how it differs from SEO, the on-page signals that make content extractable for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, and how to measure readiness.

## Articles

- [What Is an AEO Score? How to Measure Whether Your Content Is AI-Ready](https://aeoscored.com/what-is-an-aeo-score): What an AEO score measures, the dimensions behind it, what counts as a good score, and why it signals extractability readiness rather than guaranteed AI citations.
- [AEO vs SEO: How Answer Engine Optimization Differs From Search Engine Optimization](https://aeoscored.com/aeo-vs-seo): A clear comparison of AEO and SEO: what each optimizes for, where they overlap, where they diverge, and how to do both without choosing one over the other.
- [How to Structure Content for AI Extraction (Direct Answers, Headings, Lists & Schema)](https://aeoscored.com/structure-content-for-ai-extraction): A practical guide to structuring pages so AI answer engines can extract and cite them: the direct-answer pattern, question-led headings, scannable formatting and schema.
- [AEO score checker compared with AEOForged](https://aeoscored.com/aeo-score-checker-compared-with-aeoforged): This free AEO score versus AEOForged: on-page extractability readiness versus a full AI-readiness audit and citation board. Same publisher, different jobs.
- [What Is an AEO Checker? What It Measures (and What It Does Not)](https://aeoscored.com/what-is-an-aeo-checker): An AEO checker scores on-page extractability for answer engines. It is a readiness tool, not a live ChatGPT citation count, and not a rank tracker.
- [What Is AEO in SEO? Answer Engine Optimization in Search Terms](https://aeoscored.com/what-is-aeo-in-seo): AEO in SEO means answer engine optimization: structuring pages so AI answers can extract and cite you. It is a layer on SEO, not a replacement for it.