GEO readiness check
Can ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews actually read and cite your site? This checks the on-site half — crawler access, llms.txt, structured data, and whether your sitemap and canonical tags agree.
Nothing is stored, and no signup is required. Takes a few seconds.
A clean score makes you eligible to be cited. What actually puts you in the answer is third-party consensus — being reviewed, compared and recommended across many independent sources, which is exactly what creator coverage produces. The on-site work opens the door; the off-site work walks through it.
Questions
What is GEO readiness? +
GEO — Generative Engine Optimization — is being cited inside the answers that ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews generate, rather than ranked in a list of links. Readiness is the on-site half: whether the answer engines can reach your pages, read your facts unambiguously, and lift a clean answer from them. This tool checks that half.
What exactly does it check? +
Whether answer-engine crawlers are allowed in robots.txt; whether you publish llms.txt and llms-full.txt; your title, meta description, and H1; the JSON-LD types present, with particular attention to Organization and FAQPage; whether the page has enough substance to be worth citing; whether the canonical tag agrees with the URL that served the page; and — the check almost nothing else runs — whether the URLs in your sitemap agree with their own canonical tags.
Why does the sitemap-versus-canonical check matter so much? +
Because it fails silently. If your sitemap lists /page and the page says its canonical is /page/, search engines file the sitemap URL as an "alternate page with proper canonical tag" — the content still gets indexed, but the sitemap’s signals are attached to a URL the engine has rejected, and any hreflang annotations on it are discarded. Nothing errors, nothing looks broken, and your bilingual pairing quietly stops working. We found this on our own site and it had moved 18 pages into that bucket.
Does a good score mean AI engines will cite me? +
No, and that is the honest limit of any on-site tool. Readiness makes you eligible. What actually gets you into an answer is third-party consensus — being described, reviewed, and recommended across many independent credible sources. That is earned off your own site, which is why GEO and creator marketing turn out to be the same motion viewed from two angles.
Do you store the sites people check? +
No. The check runs on request and returns the result; nothing is written down and there is no signup. Responses are briefly cached at the edge so repeated checks of the same site are fast.