AEO — Answer Engine Optimization
Audit, optimize and track your content so ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini cite it as the authoritative source.
Marketing & SEOIntermediate★ 26,330⑂ 3,706AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 30, 2026
What it does
- AEO audit: scores a page or markdown file on Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness, returning a 0–100 composite plus a markdown report with prioritized fixes.
- Content optimization: rewrites heading hierarchy for LLM parsing, boosts citation density, injects FAQ/HowTo/Article JSON-LD, and pulls verifiable claims into the first 200 words — in conservative, balanced or aggressive mode.
- Citation tracking: keeps a local ledger (
~/.aeo-data/citations.json) of which LLM cited which URL for which query, with per-page counts, velocity and CSV export. - Pre-flight check: verifies robots.txt against the AI crawler matrix (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended) — a blocked bot zeroes that platform.
- Industry-aware thresholds for saas, healthcare, finance, legal, ecommerce, b2b, media and education.
Who it's for
- Content marketers watching traffic shift from search results to AI answers
- In-house SEO teams adding an AI-citation lens to existing audits
- Regulated verticals (health, finance, legal) that need strict trust-signal checklists
- Web owners rolling out schema markup and extractable answer blocks
Examples
- "Run an AEO audit on this blog post" → composite 72/100 with top fixes: add author credentials, link a corrections policy, add FAQ schema.
- "Audit this with healthcare rigor" →
--industry healthcareflags every health claim lacking a primary citation as critical. - "Perplexity just cited this page" → log the LLM, query and date in the ledger, then report citation velocity for the quarter.
· · · Install guide · · ·
Try it now, no install
Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.
Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/HEAD/.gemini/skills/aeo/SKILL.md What I want: (describe your task here)
If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.
↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.
Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Install in Claude Code
Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code
Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the .gemini/skills/aeo folder from the GitHub repo alirezarezvani/claude-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/aeo/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
Install with a command instead
git clone https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git /tmp/claude-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/.gemini/skills/aeo ~/.claude/skills/aeo⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.
- Open a terminal (Terminal on macOS/Linux, WSL or Git Bash on Windows).
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git - Create the skills folder:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills - Copy the skill in:
cp -r claude-skills/.gemini/skills/aeo ~/.claude/skills/aeo - Run
ls ~/.claude/skills/aeoand confirmSKILL.md,scripts/andreferences/came along; if scripts are missing, look for the same skill folder elsewhere in the repo. - Check
python3 --version. For--urlaudits also runpip install requests beautifulsoup4(file-based audits need no dependencies). - Restart Claude Code and say "run an AEO audit" or "optimize this for Perplexity citations" to trigger the skill.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT