AEO NIUEXA

Getting Started

5 min read

What is AEO?

AI Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of optimizing your website so that AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI features can better understand, index, and cite your content.

Why it matters: As more users get answers from AI assistants instead of traditional search, having your content cited by AI becomes crucial for visibility and traffic.

AEO vs SEO

While SEO focuses on ranking in traditional search results, AEO focuses on:

  • Being cited - Getting mentioned in AI-generated responses
  • Being understood - Helping AI extract accurate information
  • Being trusted - Signaling credibility and expertise to AI systems
  • Being accessible - Letting AI search crawlers reach your content (training crawlers are your own choice)

Your First Result in Three Steps

  1. Run the free check. Can AI read my site? tests one page for free, with no sign-up and no credits: robots.txt by crawler purpose, how your server answers crawler names, readable text in the first HTML, and snippet controls. A result of "could not test" means we could not tell, not that the page is blocked.
  2. Scan your home page. The scan scores the page and lists what failed. Confirm your email first to receive your complimentary credit; the scan shows its cost before you start.
  3. Read "What to do next". Your site dashboard ranks the fixes, and you can copy each one as a developer ticket.

How Analysis Works

AEO NIUEXA evaluates your website with the current analyzer check set, grouped into 6 dimensions. Here's what happens when you run an analysis:

1. Content Crawling

We fetch your page using Firecrawl, extracting both raw HTML and cleaned content for analysis. This simulates how AI crawlers see your site.

2. Technical Analysis

We check robots.txt permissions, sitemaps, HTTPS, canonical and noindex settings, and other infrastructure elements that affect whether crawlers can reach your pages.

3. Structure Analysis

We evaluate your HTML structure, Schema.org markup, heading hierarchy, and semantic HTML usage that helps AI understand your content.

4. AI Content Analysis

Using GPT-5.2, we evaluate E-E-A-T signals, content quality and how clearly the page answers questions. Some AI-reviewed checks are unproven: they are shown but not scored.

5. Score Calculation

Applicable check results are weighted by importance and by how well the evidence supports each check, then combined by dimension into your AEO Score and grade. Checks that do not apply, or that we could not test, are left out.

Analysis Types

Single Page Scan
1 credit
Analyze one specific URL in depth
Smart Scan (Multi-Page)
1 credit per page
Discover and analyze multiple pages across your site

Single Page Scan

Best for analyzing specific pages like your homepage, key landing pages, or blog posts.

  1. Go to Scan from the navigation
  2. Enter the full URL (including https://)
  3. Click Analyze
  4. Follow the server-reported progress until the analysis completes
  5. View your detailed report

Smart Scan (Multi-Page)

Best for getting a complete picture of your site's AEO health across multiple pages.

  1. Go to Smart Scan from the navigation
  2. Enter your domain
  3. We'll discover pages via your sitemap
  4. Select which pages to analyze
  5. View results in your Site Dashboard

Credit System

Credits are used to run analyses. Each page analysis costs 1 credit. Every paid action shows its cost before you start it, and the free "Can AI read my site?" check uses no credits.

Complimentary grant
1 Credit
Included when a new account is created
One-time packages
Buy as needed
Choose from the active packages shown on the pricing page
Page rule
1 credit
Charged for each analyzed page
Credit tip: Use single-page analysis to test a fix, then select the relevant pages in Smart Scan to verify the broader change.