SEO & AEO · COMING SOON

Your next customer might ask an AI, not Google.

BoltAudit audits how visible your site is everywhere people search, from Google results to AI answers, and ranks every fix by estimated visibility won back. Arriving in the next version, included with every paid plan.

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BoltAudit SEO and AEO Audit dashboard showing a visibility score of 61, search readiness 68, AI citability 47, 214 pages scanned, 12 issues found, 38% citable today, and 3 of 6 AI crawlers blocked
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What is AEO?

AEO stands for answer engine optimization: making your site readable, quotable, and citable by AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Where SEO earns you a ranking in search results, AEO earns you a mention in the answer itself. BoltAudit will audit both in one scan and scores them together.

SEO You rank in the list
1
2You
3
AEO You are quoted in the answer
yoursite.com

Ranking on Google no longer means AI answers mention you.

The overlap between top Google results and the sources AI assistants cite has fallen to under 20%. These systems read sites differently: they need clean structure, valid schema, direct answers near the top of the page, and crawler access that many sites block without knowing it. Some CDNs now block AI crawlers by default. Your site may be invisible to AI answers today, and nothing in your analytics would tell you.

Your site One set of pages
Search results
Ranked by classic search signals
AI answer
yoursite.com
Answer engines ChatGPT Claude Perplexity

Illustrative. The two lists overlap far less than most site owners assume.

Crawler access

Can AI engines even reach you?

The audit reads your robots.txt and checks access for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended, and Bingbot, with the exact blocking line as evidence. It warns you when your CDN may be blocking AI crawlers, and spells out the line to change.

  • Six AI crawlers checked on every audit
  • The exact blocking line shown as evidence
  • The exact line to change, as evidence
Crawler access 3 of 6 blocked
GPTBot
ClaudeBot
PerplexityBot
OAI-SearchBot
Google-Extended
Bingbot
Evidence · robots.txt line 14
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
Allow AI crawlers in robots.txt
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Cloudflare detected. Your CDN may be blocking AI crawlers before they reach WordPress. Check your bot rules.
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On-page checks

Can search engines read your pages properly?

Titles, meta descriptions, heading structure, canonicals, schema validity, internal links, orphan pages, thin content. Every check runs on your own server. Nothing leaves your site.

  • Every page checked, with the failing ones named
  • Schema validated, not just detected
  • Runs read-only on your own server
On-page checks 214 pages scanned
Titles206/214
8 pages duplicate or too long
96% pass
Meta descriptions202/214
12 pages missing a description
94% pass
Schema190/214
24 pages fail validation
89% pass
Internal links211/214
3 pages orphaned, no links in
99% pass
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AI citability

Would an AI assistant quote you?

The AI Visibility Audit reads your pages the way an answer engine does: does the opening answer the question, is the schema present and valid, is the content in the HTML or hidden behind scripts. It scores how ready each page is to be cited.

Honest limit, stated plainly: we score citability, we do not track actual citations. No tool can promise you a mention, and we will not pretend to.

AI Visibility findings Ranked by estimated visibility won back
1
Opening paragraph does not answer the page question
84% confidence
/guides/wordpress-speed/ · first 240 chars are navigation and author bio
Answer position Article schema valid Content behind script
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One visibility score, estimated, explained.

Search readiness covers the classic signals Google and Bing read. AI citability covers what answer engines need. Both roll into one estimated score from 0 to 100, and the dashboard tells you in plain language which half is pulling it down. Every number links to the methodology behind it.

How we calculate this →

Visibility score Estimated
61
of 100
+4 vs last run
FAIR
0 POOR100 STRONG
Verdict
Google can find you. AI mostly cannot.

Search readiness is solid. AI citability is what is holding you back.

Search readiness68
AI citability47
Last 5 audits +7 in 5 runs
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The audit finds the gaps. Optimization closes them.

Step 1

Ready to apply

Schema, canonicals, crawler access, sitemap declaration. Each one named, with the change spelled out.

Evidence-firstFix HistoryOrdered steps
Step 2

Review before apply

AI drafts your missing metas and titles. You approve each one, or all of them. Nothing AI-written ever publishes without your review.

AI draftsYou approveNothing auto-publishes
Step 3

Do it yourself

Some things need a human: thin pages, content locked behind scripts. BoltAudit shows you exactly which pages and exactly what to do.

Pages namedExact steps
Plays well with others

Works alongside Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, and AIOSEO. BoltAudit coordinates, it never double-emits schema.

SEO plugin detected
Yoast SEO
Schema handed to Yoast, not duplicated
llms.txt
Absent
XML sitemap
Present
Declared in robots.txt
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Runs on your weekly credits.

Every plan reloads AI credits weekly — 2 on Free, 5 on Solo, 15 on Studio — and 1 credit runs one AI Visibility Audit. Need more? Packs top up a separate balance that never expires while you are subscribed.

How AI credits work →

5 AI credits a week on Solo
15 AI credits a week on Studio
1 credit runs one AI Visibility Audit
Read-only checks on your server Evidence behind every finding Evidence behind every finding Included with every paid plan when it ships

Questions about SEO and AEO

Short answers, in plain words.

No. When it ships it comes with every paid plan, Solo and Studio, at no extra cost. Only the free plan will not include it.

Yes, keep it. BoltAudit works alongside your SEO plugin. It detects what your plugin already handles, marks it as a pass, and never adds duplicate schema on top.

Nobody can promise that, and you should be careful with tools that do. What BoltAudit does is measurable: it checks whether AI assistants can reach and read your pages, scores how ready they are to be quoted, and shows the evidence for every finding.

The regular checks run on your own server and send nothing anywhere. Only the AI Visibility Audit sends data, and only when you run it: page titles, descriptions, and the text of the pages being analyzed, so it can judge them and draft fixes.

No. BoltAudit does not change your site: it reports what to change and how. AI-written drafts, like a new meta description, are yours to review and apply yourself.

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