Same foundations as SEO
Pages that cannot be crawled, indexed or understood are unlikely to be used by any search or answer engine.
AI visibility audit: is your website ready for AI search?
Check the technical signals that AI search and answer engines depend on: crawlable pages, clean metadata and valid structured data. RedSentinel measures readiness. It does not tell you whether ChatGPT or Perplexity actually cite your site.
GEO, AEO and AI search in plain terms
Generative engine optimization (GEO) and answer engine optimization (AEO) aim at being understood and used as a source by AI-generated answers.
No guaranteed outcome
How AI assistants choose their sources is not public. No tool can promise a mention, and readiness is a prerequisite, not a result.
Measurement is a separate problem
Knowing whether a brand appears in AI answers requires sampling those answers over time. That is different from auditing your own pages.
What RedSentinel can verify today
These checks come from the technical SEO analysis and are relevant to AI-search readiness.
Crawlability and indexability
robots.txt reachability, rules that block the whole site, noindex directives, canonical tags and a declared sitemap.
Clear page signals
Title, description, one H1, heading order, language attribute and hreflang, which help engines understand what a page is about.
Structured data
Presence and validity of JSON-LD blocks and missing required properties, a common base for machine-readable context.
How to improve AI-search readiness
Practical steps that also help classic search.
Remove blockers first
Fix accidental noindex, robots.txt blocks and conflicting canonical tags before adding anything new.
State things explicitly
Write self-contained pages with a clear heading structure and descriptive titles and descriptions.
Keep markup valid and consistent
Use JSON-LD that matches the visible content, then re-scan to confirm it parses without errors.
What counts as AI visibility, and what RedSentinel measures
The layers below are kept apart on purpose. Only the first three are about readiness, and none of them proves citations.
AI-search technical readiness
Indexability, metadata and page structure are checked as part of the SEO analysis of the submitted page.
Partly coveredAI crawler accessibility
robots.txt is read and site-wide blocks are flagged. Rules written for specific AI crawlers are not evaluated individually yet.
Partly coveredStructured and citation-readiness signals
JSON-LD presence and validity are checked. Whether any AI system uses that data is not something the scanner can observe.
Partly coveredllms.txt
The scanner does not request or validate an llms.txt file at this time.
Not availableMeasured visibility and citations
RedSentinel does not query ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google AI Overviews, so it cannot say whether your site is mentioned or cited there.
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AI visibility questions
Can RedSentinel tell me if my website is visible in ChatGPT?
No. It checks technical readiness signals on your pages. It does not query AI assistants, so it cannot report whether they mention or cite your site.
What is the difference between GEO and AEO?
GEO focuses on being used as a source in generated answers, and AEO on being chosen as the direct answer to a question. Both rely on pages that are crawlable, clear and well structured.
Does it check llms.txt?
Not currently. The scanner does not look for an llms.txt file, so a missing file is not reported as an issue.
Does it test GPTBot or other AI crawlers?
Not individually. It reads robots.txt and flags rules that block the whole site or key resources, but it does not evaluate rules for each named AI crawler.
Will fixing the findings get my site cited by AI?
It removes technical obstacles, which is a necessary step. There is no guarantee, because AI systems do not publish how they select sources.
Start with the signals you can verify
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