When AI answers, is it you they cite?
iCited is a free AI SEO audit: enter your website and in about two minutes you get a citability score across the signals that decide whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews cite your business — plus a prioritized fix list.
What does iCited actually check?
29 deterministic checks across four categories: Answer Engine Optimization, E-E-A-T trust signals, AI crawlability, and content structure. Same input, same score — no AI-generated guesswork.
- Answer Engine Optimization — question-style headings, quotable answer paragraphs, FAQ schema, and the lists and tables AI answers can lift directly.
- E-E-A-T trust signals — structured data, Organization schema, author attribution, machine-readable dates and provenance pages.
- AI crawlability — robots.txt rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended, llms.txt, sitemap, canonical and indexability.
- Content structure — substantive text, alt text, internal linking and semantic HTML landmarks.
How is this different from a normal SEO audit?
Traditional audits optimize for blue-link rankings. iCited scores the answer layer — the signals that decide whether an AI engine cites you or your competitor when a customer asks a question.
How do you get cited by ChatGPT and Google's AI?
Structure content so engines can quote it: phrase headings as the questions people ask, open each section with a one-to-three sentence direct answer, add FAQ and Organization schema, allow AI crawlers, and publish an llms.txt file describing your business.
Is the audit really free?
Yes. Enter a URL and your email and get your full score and prioritized roadmap at no cost — no login, no credit card. Paid options add a whole-site AI Visibility Report and monthly citation monitoring.
Free tools
- llms.txt generator — build the file that guides AI systems to your key content.
- AEO checker — test whether your content is structured for AI answers.
- E-E-A-T checker — test whether AI engines trust your site enough to cite it.
Prefer it done for you? Our AI SEO services cover strategy, Answer Engine Optimization, LLM visibility, technical SEO, content optimization and local AI SEO. See plans and pricing, or run the free audit now. Standards we build on: the llms.txt specification and Google's guidance on optimizing for generative AI features.