What an answer engine needs from your business
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A direct answer. Each key page opens with a plain answer to the question a buyer would ask, then supports it. Assistants can lift a clear answer; they struggle with a page that circles it.
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Consistent facts. Your name, what you sell, where you operate and who you serve should read the same on your site, your profiles and your listings.
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Readable pages. Content that loads without relying on scripts, AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt, and an up-to-date sitemap.
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Machine-readable structure. Structured data such as Organization, Service and FAQPage markup states your facts explicitly. It helps; it does not guarantee anything.
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Outside confirmation. Reviews, directory listings and mentions on other sites that say the same thing about you.
How Citefast does AEO
AI Visibility Audit
An answer-gap check. We list the questions your buyers ask, put them to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and other models, and record whether you are the answer, who is instead, and which sources they cite.
Content & Structure Optimization
We rewrite key pages answer-first, make your facts consistent, and add structured data and an llms.txt file. You can try our free llms.txt generator.
Citation & Authority Building
We build the outside confirmation: directories, reviews, roundups and expert quotes. No bought links.
Ongoing Monitoring
We repeat the same questions on a schedule and report what changed.
What we check on your site
- AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt
- Content visible without JavaScript
- Sitemap current
- Organization, Service and FAQ markup
- Answer-first page openings
- Business facts consistent across profiles
- llms.txt (optional)
Not sure where you stand? Run the free AI Visibility Test.
A real example
MAG Linen and Towels Inc., a wholesale towel supplier with no online presence, had never appeared in an AI answer. After the same audit-and-fix process, ChatGPT began naming it as a top pick for relevant buyer queries. Read the case study
A few common questions.
AEO is the practice of making your business the direct answer that AI assistants and answer engines give to relevant questions, rather than one link in a list of results.
They overlap heavily. AEO emphasises being the direct answer; GEO emphasises being a cited, trusted source in an AI-written response. The work is largely the same set of steps, which is why Citefast covers both. See our GEO services.
llms.txt is a proposed standard: a plain file that lists your key pages for AI models. We haven't seen confirmation that major engines rely on it, so we treat it as low-cost tidiness, not a lever. Our free generator makes one in minutes.
Google's AI features draw on pages Google has indexed, so clear, crawlable, well-sourced pages are the foundation. Nobody can guarantee inclusion.
Yes. Citefast is a done-for-you agency for answer engine optimization (AEO) and generative engine optimization (GEO).
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Looking for generative engine optimization? Same discipline, different emphasis: GEO services.