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SEO Check: How visible is your website — on Google and in AI answers?

Enter your address and you will see in about 20 seconds where your website stands. We check 34 criteria: the classic SEO basics and, in addition, whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews can read and cite your content at all.

Free, no sign-up, results in about 20 seconds.

  • 34 checks for Google and AI search
  • Immediate result, no waiting for a callback
  • We do not store any content from your website

What the check tests

34 checks, divided into two areas. One half determines your position on Google, the other whether you appear in AI answers at all.

18 SEO checks

  • Title-Tag present
  • Length of the Title-Tag
  • Meta-Description present
  • Length of the Meta-Description
  • Exactly one H1 heading
  • Meaningful heading structure
  • Canonical-URL set
  • Language specified
  • Mobile display configured
  • Encrypted connection
  • Page may be indexed
  • robots.txt accessible and permissive
  • XML sitemap present
  • Alt text for images
  • Internal linking
  • Preview for social networks
  • Text length
  • Server response time

16 GEO checks

  • llms.txt present
  • Access for GPTBot (ChatGPT)
  • Access for ClaudeBot
  • Access for PerplexityBot
  • Access for Google-Extended
  • Access for CCBot (Common Crawl)
  • Company marked up in machine-readable form
  • FAQ marked up for machines
  • Structured data overall
  • Linking to your profiles
  • Recognizable authorship
  • Recognizable recency
  • Answer-ready structure
  • Lists and tables
  • Verifiable facts
  • Content visible without JavaScript

How the check works

  1. 01

    Enter address

    Enter the address of your homepage. No registration, no installation, no access to your systems.

  2. 02

    We access your site

    Our checking tool accesses your site just like a search engine crawler and also reads robots.txt, Sitemap, and llms.txt.

  3. 03

    34 criteria are evaluated

    Each check receives a result and a weight. This produces three values: SEO, GEO, and an overall score.

  4. 04

    You receive the report

    First the three most important findings, then the full report after you enter your contact details — immediately on the page and by email.

What is SEO?

SEO stands for search engine optimization. It is the work of making a website appear in Google and Bing for the search terms potential customers actually use — and to rank as high as possible there.

SEO consists of three parts. The technical side ensures that search engines can access, read, and index the site at all: fast loading times, clean URLs, a sitemap, and a mobile-friendly layout. The content side covers what is on the page: headings, text length, structure, and image descriptions. The third part lies outside your website — links from other sites, directory listings, reviews. The check here covers the first two parts because they can be measured from the outside and because you control them yourself.

What is GEO?

GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimization. It is the work of making sure that AI systems such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and the AI overviews in Google Search can find your content, understand it, and cite it as a source.

The difference from SEO is fundamental. In Google, you compete for a position in a list of ten results. In an AI system, there is no list — there is an answer, and in that answer you either appear or you do not. For you to appear, three things must be right: AI crawlers must be allowed to access your site, which is controlled by your robots.txt. Your content must be present in the delivered HTML without JavaScript, because most of these crawlers do not execute scripts. And your texts must be structured so that individual statements can be extracted: clear questions as headings, short direct answers below them, and verifiable numbers instead of marketing language.

SEO and GEO compared

Both pursue the same goal — being found. They differ in who is searching and what the result looks like.

CriterionSEOGEO
GoalA good position in the results listBeing cited as a source in the answer
What the user seesTen blue links to choose fromA ready-made answer with a few source references
Performance measurementPosition, clicks, impressionsMentions and links in AI answers
Key signalsKeywords, links, load time, user behaviorCrawler access, structured data, citable statements, clear authorship
Ideal text formatDetailed pages on one topicClearly separated question-and-answer sections, lists, tables
Typical time frameThree to twelve months until results showTechnical issues often take days, content issues weeks

Why you need both

GEO does not replace SEO. The same basics support both: if your site is slow, has no clean heading structure, and provides no structured data, that hurts both Google and ChatGPT. But the reverse is not true: good SEO does not automatically mean good GEO. A website can rank first on Google and still not appear in AI answers — for example because robots.txt blocks GPTBot or because the text is loaded only in the browser. This is exactly the gap the check makes visible, which is why SEO and GEO are weighted equally here.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Enter your address and you will immediately see the overall score, the sub-scores for SEO and GEO, and the three most important findings. To receive the full report, leave your contact details — there are no costs and you do not enter into any commitment.

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