GEO toolAI citability checker: is your page easy to quote?
Answer engines quote pages that answer the question directly and back it up. Paste a page's source and, if you like, the prompt you want it to win. Each check is scored only where a study or Google guideline supports it, and links to that evidence. Nothing is uploaded.
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Paste the page you want quoted
Open the page, press Ctrl+U (or ⌥⌘U on a Mac) to view the source, select all and paste. Add the prompt you want it to answer to check title fit. Nothing is uploaded.
Every check, with its evidence
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How do I make a page more likely to be cited by AI?
Make sure it can be indexed and shown with a snippet, put the main text in the HTML, open with a short paragraph that answers the question, back claims with statistics, linked sources and attributed quotes, use headings that match how people ask, show who wrote it and when it was updated, and title it in the words of the prompt.
The method, in the open.
The HTML you paste is parsed in an inert document in your browser; its scripts never run. Only the main content (the <article> or <main> element, minus navigation and footers) is graded, because that is what gets quoted.
- Indexable, snippet allowed (weight 3) and content in the HTML (2): Google requires both before a page can be a supporting link in AI Overviews and AI Mode.
- Direct answer, statistics and cited sources (2 each) and quotations (1): the methods that lifted visibility most in the GEO study.
- Title matches the prompt (2, only with a prompt) and readable slug (1): from Ahrefs' study of 1.4 million ChatGPT prompts. Prompt fit is a word-overlap measure, not embeddings.
- Subheadings, visible date and named author (1 each): Google's helpful-content guidance.
A pass scores full weight, a warning half, a fail nothing. Structured data and llms.txt are reported but never scored: Google says neither is needed for AI features.
What the numbers look like.
Using the sample page. A blog post asks "How long does ASO take?" with the prompt "how long does aso take to show results". It scores 69/100. It is indexable, its title and slug match the prompt, it has subheadings, and it gives three figures. But its opening paragraph is 63 words of warm-up ("In today's competitive app market…") that never answers, it cites no outside sources and quotes no one, and its author and date exist only in the markup, not on the page. Moving the "2 to 6 weeks" answer into the first sentence, linking three sources, and showing the byline and updated date takes it from 69 to over 85. A quote and fuller sections do the rest.
What this is based on
- In the GEO study, adding quotations, statistics and cited sources improved visibility in generative engine answers by roughly 30–40%; keyword stuffing did not help. Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024
- Across 1.4M ChatGPT prompts, cited pages' titles were closer to the prompt (0.602 vs 0.484 similarity), and natural-language slugs were cited 89.78% of the time vs 81.11%. Ahrefs
- To be a supporting link in AI Overviews or AI Mode, a page must be indexed and eligible to be shown with a snippet. No special schema or AI text files are needed. Google Search Central
- Google asks who created content, how, and why, and suggests bylines and clear dates where readers expect them. Google Search Central
What it does not tell you
- A high score makes a page easier to quote; it is not a citation. Engines choose among pages they retrieve, and retrieval depends on ranking, authority and the query.
- Prompt fit uses shared words, not meaning. A title that answers the prompt in different words can score lower than it deserves.
- Statistics and quotation detection is pattern-based. It counts figures and quoted speech; it can't tell whether they are accurate or well sourced.
- It grades the HTML you paste. Text added by JavaScript after load isn't seen, which matches what many AI fetchers receive.
- Ahrefs' data on date fields is mixed, so the date check is weighted lightly.
Questions people ask.
What is AI citability?
How easy a page is for an answer engine to quote and link as a source: it answers the question directly, backs it up with checkable facts, and can be indexed and shown as a snippet.
Why doesn't schema add points?
Google says no special structured data is needed to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, and tests of schema for AI citations haven't shown a reliable lift. The tool lists your JSON-LD for information only.
Does llms.txt help?
Not on current evidence. Google says no AI text files are needed, and studies have found no link between llms.txt and citations. It isn't scored.
Will a score of 100 get me cited?
No tool can promise that. The score measures whether the page is quotable once it's retrieved; being retrieved depends on ranking, authority and mentions elsewhere.
Should I paste the page source or the visible text?
The source (Ctrl+U). The checker needs the HTML to find headings, links, robots rules and the canonical URL.
Is my page uploaded?
No. It is parsed in your browser and never sent to our servers. Its scripts are not executed.
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