GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the discipline of making your site crawlable, understandable and citable by AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and more. As more people ask AI instead of typing a search query, sites invisible to those engines lose customers before a results page ever loads.
Why GEO matters now
Search is shifting from ranking pages to being cited inside an AI-generated answer. If an AI engine can't crawl your site, can't find structured data about who you are, or can't read your content without running JavaScript, it skips you — and so does everyone asking it questions.
What we check and fix
Our GEO audit is built on concrete, testable signals — the same ones used in HIKA's free pre-audit tool.
AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot...) allowed
Make sure GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and other AI crawlers aren't blocked by your robots.txt.
llms.txt found
Publish a llms.txt file so AI engines get a clear, structured summary of your site.
FAQ structured data (FAQPage)
Add FAQPage schema so AI engines can lift accurate question-and-answer pairs straight from your pages.
Organization/Person structured data
Add Organization/Person schema so AI engines can correctly identify who you are.
Content visible without JavaScript
Make sure your key content renders in raw HTML — many AI crawlers don't execute JavaScript.
Run your free GEO pre-audit
Test your own site against these exact checks in under a minute with HIKA's free pre-audit tool.
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