TL;DR — GEOScan checks whether AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews, Claude — can actually read, understand and cite your website. You give it a URL; it runs about 25 checks across five areas and returns a 0–100 GEO score with the three fixes that move the needle most. It’s the same method Yameveo used to audit and rebuild this very site.
What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?
Search is moving from a list of ten blue links to a single written answer. When someone asks an AI assistant “who builds CIAM analytics in Europe?” or “how do I make my site citable by ChatGPT?”, the model quotes a handful of sources — or none. GEO is the practice of becoming one of those sources: structured so a machine can parse you without running JavaScript, attributed so it trusts who wrote the page, and fresh enough to be surfaced. Put simply — classic SEO gets you ranked; GEO gets you quoted.
What does GEOScan check?
Around 25 deterministic checks across five areas — the same rubric behind Yameveo’s own audit. No opinions, no black box: every finding maps to a concrete signal an AI crawler reads.
- Technical foundation — permanent (not temporary) redirects, AI crawlers allowed in
robots.txt, a readable sitemap, indexable pages, and real content in the raw HTML. Most AI crawlers don’t execute JavaScript, so a page that only renders client-side is, to them, blank. - Structured data — Organization, WebSite, Person, Article/BlogPosting and FAQPage schema, verified in the static HTML. Schema injected by JavaScript is invisible to the crawlers that matter.
- Content — enough substance per page to actually answer a question, question-form headings, a summary up top, and lists or tables an engine can lift verbatim.
- Entity & authority — named author bylines, a reachable About/Team page, machine-readable dates, and links to external profiles (LinkedIn, GitHub) that tell the model who you are.
- Freshness — how recently you’ve genuinely published, cross-checked against real article dates rather than an inflated sitemap timestamp, plus an RSS/Atom feed.
How does the free scan work?
You give us a URL — nothing to install, no tag, no access to your site. GEOScan follows the redirect chain, reads robots.txt and the sitemap, samples your key pages (blog, services, about) and runs the checks the way an AI crawler would. You get back a GEO score, a breakdown across the five areas, and the three highest-impact findings. The scan is polite by design: it identifies itself, respects robots.txt, rate-limits itself, and never reads more than 20 pages.
What does the full audit add?
The free scan tells you where you stand. The full audit tells you exactly what to do about it — a fixed-price, one-off report (no subscription) with every finding and a prioritised action plan:
- P0 — this week: the few fixes that unblock AI crawlers immediately.
- P1 — this month: the schema and structural work that compounds over time.
- P2 — ongoing: the content and freshness habits that keep you cited.
If your site runs on WordPress, the plan names the specific plugins and steps. No jargon, no filler — every recommendation is something one person can act on in a defined amount of time.
Who is this for?
Founders, marketers and agencies who’ve noticed AI answers quietly replacing search clicks — and want to know whether they’re in the answer or not. GEOScan is built for European SMEs and agencies, in English, Italian and Spanish, not just US enterprises. We built it by auditing ourselves first: the method comes straight from rebuilding this site to be citable.
Frequently asked questions
Is GEO the same as SEO?
No, though they overlap. SEO optimises for ranking in a list of links; GEO optimises for being read and quoted by an AI answer engine. They share fundamentals like crawlability and clean structure, but GEO leans much harder on machine-readable structured data, extractable content, and clear author and entity signals — the things a model needs to trust and cite you.
Do I need to install anything?
No. GEOScan only reads your public pages the way an AI crawler would — there’s no tag to add, no plugin, and no access to your site or analytics required.
Will the scan affect my site?
No. The scanner identifies itself with a clear user-agent, obeys your robots.txt, spaces out its requests, and reads at most 20 pages. It’s a read-only visit, lighter than a single human browsing session.
Does it only work for WordPress sites?
No — the checks are platform-agnostic and work on any site. WordPress just gets a more specific action plan, because we can name the exact plugins and settings to change.
Want to know your GEO score? Request a free scan and we’ll send you the breakdown. A self-serve version — enter a URL, get the report by email — is on the way.