AI crawler access
Which AI bots are allowed or blocked, and whether that was on purpose.
GEO audit
GEO audit for AI search and answer engines
Generative engine optimization starts with access. The GEO audit checks whether AI crawlers can reach your site, read your content and find something worth citing.
Free report · no credit card · takes about 2 minutes
What is a GEO audit?
A GEO audit, short for generative engine optimization audit, checks whether AI crawlers and answer engines can reach, read and cite your website. It looks at robots.txt rules for AI bots, llms.txt, whether content loads without scripts, structured data, entity details and how quotable your pages are, then lists fixes in order of impact.
How it works
- Step 1
Check access
Robots rules, llms.txt and server responses for the main AI crawlers.
- Step 2
Check readability
Whether page content is in the HTML, with clear headings and direct answers.
- Step 3
Check citability
Structured data, entity details and sourced statements an assistant can quote.
- Step 4
Fix in order
Findings ranked by impact and sent to website tasks.
What you get
What GEO Audit gives you, in plain words.
Structured data review
Organization, product, article and FAQ markup checked for what assistants read.
Quotable content
Direct answers and sourced facts an assistant can lift into a reply.
Ranked fixes
Each finding with a plain fix, ready for your task list.
What is the difference between an SEO audit and a GEO audit?
An SEO audit asks whether Google can crawl and rank your pages. A GEO audit asks whether AI answer engines can reach, read and quote them. They overlap on basics like crawlability and structured data, but GEO adds AI crawler rules, llms.txt and how quotable your content is.
Will fixing GEO issues guarantee AI mentions?
No tool can guarantee that. Fixing access and readability removes the reasons an assistant cannot use your content; being recommended also depends on what other sites say about you, which is why RankMesh tracks mentions too.
Which plans include it?
It is part of every paid plan: Self-Serve at $99 a month (₹10,000 in India), where your team runs RankMesh, and Managed at $399 a month (₹40,000 in India), where a RankMesh account manager runs it for you. Full details are on the pricing page, and you can see where you stand today with a free AI visibility report.
How does it compare?
See this side by side with an alternative in RankMesh vs Profound, or browse every RankMesh comparison.
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GEO Audit FAQ
Common questions
The GEO audit checks for it and explains what to include, and the fix can be delivered through your connected site.
The main ones, including GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and Bingbot.
They overlap. AEO focuses on answer boxes and featured snippets; GEO covers AI-generated answers more broadly. RankMesh covers both.
Make sure AI engines can actually read you.
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