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What is an AI visibility audit

An AI visibility audit is a structured check of how ready your website and online presence are to be found, understood and recommended by AI assistants — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and the rest — rather than by traditional search ranking. A thorough one looks at whether AI crawlers can actually reach your site, whether your content is in clean, crawlable text rather than locked in images or JavaScript, whether you have the structured data and an llms.txt file that help a model understand who you are, whether your entity and your name, address and phone are consistent across the sources models trust, and whether your pages actually answer the questions buyers ask. The output that matters is not a single score but a prioritized list of fixes, because the point of an audit is to tell you the few changes that will do the most to make you recommendable. It is a starting diagnosis, not a guarantee — doing the fixes is what changes outcomes.

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What does an AI visibility audit actually check?Crawler access for AI bots, whether your content is crawlable plain text, your structured data and llms.txt, the consistency of your entity and local listings across trusted sources, and whether your pages answer real buyer questions. A good audit turns those into a short, prioritized list of fixes rather than a vague grade.
How is it different from a regular SEO audit?An SEO audit is tuned to how search engines rank pages; an AI visibility audit is tuned to how assistants retrieve, understand and cite sources to answer a question. They overlap on fundamentals like crawlability and clean markup, but an AI audit weighs entity clarity, answer-ready content and AI-crawler access far more heavily.
How do I find out where I stand?Run a free Cited scan — it checks the AI-search readiness signals on your website (crawler access, llms.txt, structured data and answer-ready content) and lists the fixes to make first.

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