# AEO Fail > Most websites are invisible to AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok. AEO Fail audits your answer-engine readiness and fixes it at the source. Get a free audit today. ## Company - **Name:** AEO Fail - **What we do:** Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) — audits, remediation, and monitoring - **Address:** 123 Main Street, Suite 100, Anytown, CA 00000 - **Phone:** (123) 456-7890 - **Email:** hello@aeofail.com - **Website:** https://www.aeofail.com - **Hours:** Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm ## Services - [Free AEO Audit](https://www.aeofail.com/#free-audit) — answer-engine readiness scan: AI crawler access, structured data, content answerability. Free, no card required. - [Remediation](https://www.aeofail.com/#pricing) — $99/hour code- and content-level fixes: schema.org, llms.txt, answer-first content restructuring. Free estimate with every audit. - [Ongoing Monitoring](https://www.aeofail.com/#pricing) — $19/month re-scans with regression alerts and a monthly graded report. ## Guides - [What Is AEO?](https://www.aeofail.com/what-is-aeo) — Answer Engine Optimization, explained in plain English. - [AEO vs SEO](https://www.aeofail.com/aeo-vs-seo) — what's shared, what's different, why you need both. - [How AI Answer Engines Work](https://www.aeofail.com/how-ai-answer-engines-work) — how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews pick their citations. ## Blog (30 articles) Full listing: https://www.aeofail.com/blog - [GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot: Is Your Site Blocking AI Crawlers?](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/ai-crawlers-robots-txt) — July 8, 2026: Many sites are invisible to AI answer engines for the dumbest possible reason: the crawler never got in. Here's the AI crawler roster, where blocks hide, and how to fix them. - [How to Get Your Business Cited by ChatGPT](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/how-to-get-cited-by-chatgpt) — June 24, 2026: ChatGPT now answers 'who should I hire?' questions with live web sources. A practical walkthrough of what its search actually reads, and how to become one of its citations. - [Schema Markup for AEO: The Structured Data That Gets You Cited](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/schema-markup-for-aeo) — June 10, 2026: Structured data was optional for SEO. For answer engines it's how machines confirm who you are before citing you. The schema types that matter for AEO, in priority order. - [AEO for SaaS: Being the Answer to "What Tool Should We Use?"](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/aeo-for-saas) — June 5, 2026: Software buyers now ask AI which tool to pick. How SaaS teams win those answers: honest comparisons, citable pricing, public docs, and crawlable pages. - [AEO for Professional Services: When Clients Ask AI Who to Hire](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/aeo-for-professional-services) — June 3, 2026: AI now pre-shortlists lawyers, accountants, and agencies before clients ever call. How to make your expertise, credentials, and case studies citable. - [AEO for E-commerce: Getting Your Products into AI Answers](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/aeo-for-ecommerce) — May 31, 2026: AI assistants now name specific products in their answers. How Product schema, answer-first descriptions, feeds, and open crawler access get yours on the shortlist. - [AEO for Local Businesses: Winning the "Near Me" Questions AI Now Answers](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/aeo-for-local-businesses) — May 28, 2026: AI assistants now answer "best near me" questions with short lists, not links. Here's how local businesses earn a spot: GBP, NAP consistency, schema, and reviews. - [What Is llms.txt — and Should Your Website Have One?](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/llms-txt-guide) — May 27, 2026: llms.txt is a proposed standard: a markdown index at your domain root that tells AI systems what your site contains and where the good stuff is. What it does, what it doesn't, and how to ship one. - [Is Webflow Good for AEO? A Designer Platform Under the AI Lens](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/is-webflow-good-for-aeo) — May 25, 2026: Webflow has the highest AEO ceiling of any hosted builder — full markup control, static HTML, custom schema. The floor? That depends entirely on who built your site. - [Is Squarespace Good for AEO? An Honest Assessment](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/is-squarespace-good-for-aeo) — May 22, 2026: Squarespace serves AI crawlers clean HTML out of the box, but schema control is thin. What it handles, what code injection fixes, and when the platform is the real problem. - [Is Wix Good for AEO? What the Builder Gets Right and Wrong](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/is-wix-good-for-aeo) — May 20, 2026: Wix ships solid AEO fundamentals — server-rendered pages, an editable robots.txt, schema controls — but template content can sink you. Here's what to fix. - [Is Shopify Good for AEO? What Product Sites Need for AI Visibility](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/is-shopify-good-for-aeo) — May 17, 2026: Shopify ships solid Product schema and server-rendered pages, but thin product copy and JS-only apps hold stores back. Here's what to fix for AI visibility. - [Is WordPress Good for AEO? Strengths, Gaps, and a Setup Guide](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/is-wordpress-good-for-aeo) — May 14, 2026: WordPress serves real HTML that AI crawlers can read — but your plugins, page builder, and security settings decide the rest. Here's the full setup guide. - [Writing Content AI Can Quote: The Answer-First Page](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/writing-content-ai-can-quote) — May 13, 2026: Answer engines cite passages, not pages. How to restructure existing content so a model can lift your answer verbatim — without making your site read like it was written for robots. - [Bing SEO Is Suddenly Relevant Again: Optimizing for Microsoft Copilot](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/bing-seo-for-copilot) — May 11, 2026: Microsoft Copilot builds its web answers on Bing's index — and almost nobody optimizes for Bing. Here's how to claim one of the cheapest wins in AEO. - [Optimizing for Perplexity: The Most Transparent Answer Engine](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/perplexity-optimization-guide) — May 8, 2026: Perplexity shows its sources on every answer, making it the best engine to learn AEO on. How PerplexityBot works, why liftable answers win, and how to monitor your citations. - [Google AI Overviews: How to Become One of the Few Cited Sources](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/google-ai-overviews-guide) — May 6, 2026: AI Overviews cite a handful of sources where results pages showed ten links. How Google picks them — and how to make your site one of the few. - [Measuring AI Referral Traffic in GA4](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/ai-referral-traffic-ga4) — May 3, 2026: A practical GA4 walkthrough: which AI referral sources to track, how to build a custom channel group, and why the numbers undercount reality. - [How to Track AI Citations: Monitoring What Engines Say About You](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/how-to-track-ai-citations) — April 30, 2026: A practical system for tracking whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews cite your business — question panels, logging, and share of voice. - [Zero-Click Search: Where Your Organic Traffic Actually Went](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/zero-click-searches-explained) — April 29, 2026: Around 60% of Google searches now end without a click, and AI Overviews are accelerating the trend. What zero-click really means for businesses — and why the answer is AEO, not more SEO. - [When AI Gets Your Business Wrong: Fixing Hallucinations About Your Brand](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/fixing-ai-hallucinations-about-your-brand) — April 27, 2026: AI tools sometimes state wrong hours, prices, or services — or confuse you with a competitor. Here is a practical playbook for finding and fixing brand hallucinations. - [The DIY AEO Audit: A 15-Point Checklist](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/diy-aeo-audit-checklist) — April 24, 2026: Audit your own AI visibility in an afternoon: 15 checks covering crawler access, schema, entity consistency, llms.txt, and what the engines actually say about you. - [10 Common AEO Mistakes (and How to Fix Each One)](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/common-aeo-mistakes) — April 22, 2026: The ten AEO mistakes we see most in audits — blocked crawlers, buried answers, contradictory schema — with the symptom, cost, and fix for each. - [How Online Reviews Feed AI Recommendations](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/online-reviews-and-aeo) — April 19, 2026: AI assistants mine Google, Yelp, and G2 reviews to decide which businesses to recommend — and quote them. How to build a review corpus AI trusts. - [Digital PR for AEO: Third-Party Mentions That Make AI Trust You](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/digital-pr-for-aeo) — April 16, 2026: AI engines corroborate before they cite. How press, directories, lists, and podcasts — even unlinked mentions — teach answer engines to trust your business. - [Question Research: Finding What Your Customers Actually Ask AI](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/question-research-for-aeo) — April 13, 2026: AEO keyword research is question research. Mine sales calls and support tickets, interrogate the engines, harvest PAA and autocomplete, and turn the list into a content plan. - [FAQ Pages That Win AI Citations: Structure, Schema, and What to Ask](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/faq-pages-that-win-ai-citations) — April 10, 2026: FAQ pages are the exact shape AI answers take. How to pick real questions, write self-contained answers, and use FAQPage schema without tripping the failure modes. - [Content Freshness: Why Dates Decide Which Source AI Quotes](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/content-freshness-for-aeo) — April 8, 2026: AI engines quote sources they can prove are current. How visible dates, dateModified schema, and honest updates decide whether you get cited. - [JavaScript Rendering: Why AI Crawlers May See a Blank Page](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/javascript-rendering-and-ai-crawlers) — April 5, 2026: Most AI crawlers don't run JavaScript, so client-side-rendered pages can look blank to them. Here's how to test your site and fix it with SSR, SSG, or prerendering. - [Entity Consistency: Why AI Engines Have to Recognize Who You Are](https://www.aeofail.com/blog/entity-consistency-for-aeo) — April 2, 2026: AI engines cross-check your name, location, and services across the web before citing you. Contradictions get you hedged out — here's how to fix them. ## Policies - [Privacy Policy](https://www.aeofail.com/privacy-policy) - [Terms of Use](https://www.aeofail.com/terms-of-use) - [Accessibility](https://www.aeofail.com/accessibility) ## Machine-Readable Indexes - [Link Map CSV](https://www.aeofail.com/api/link-map) - [Blog Titles](https://www.aeofail.com/api/blog-titles)