--- title: "GEO/AEO audit: Become the brand AI chatbots recommend" description: "AI Visibility Audit, $390: tracked with Cited on five AI platforms plus a manual Bing Copilot check, reviewed by the team. PDF within 2 business days." url: "https://digitaldomination.xyz/en/services/ai-visibility-audit" language: en-US alternates: de-DE: "https://digitaldomination.xyz/leistungen/ki-sichtbarkeits-audit" en-US: "https://digitaldomination.xyz/en/services/ai-visibility-audit" x-default: "https://digitaldomination.xyz/leistungen/ki-sichtbarkeits-audit" image: "https://digitaldomination.xyz/assets/images/og-image.geo.en.png" organization: name: Digital Domination telephone: "+49 1577 5527800" email: "hey@digitaldomination.xyz" address: "523 Jackson Street, Unit #210, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101, US" --- GEO · AEO · AI VISIBILITY # Become the brand AI chatbots recommend. If someone asks ChatGPT about products or services you offer—does it mention your company at all? We measure where you stand across the main AI chatbots and Google AI Overviews, and show you exactly how to land in the answer. Updated: April 2026 [Start Your AI Audit](https://digitaldomination.xyz/en/onboarding/audit) [What We Audit ↓](https://digitaldomination.xyz/en/services/ai-visibility-audit#audit) PDF within 2 business days Reviewed by the team Five AI platforms + Bing Copilot DIY or delegate WHERE THINGS STAND IN 2026 ## Google is losing. Slowly, but it’s not coming back. When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a recommendation, the answer names a few businesses and skips the rest. - ### To recommend you, AI first needs to know you exist Only companies that show up in the sources AI models learn from get named in answers. Google rankings alone aren’t enough. - ### SEO alone doesn’t cut it Page-one rankings don’t mean ChatGPT mentions you. The two worlds follow different signals—and both are baseline today. - ### Legal gaps get you filtered out Broken legal notice, undocumented trackers, dead pages—modern AI models treat those as red flags and skip your site. - ### Structure beats volume LLMs read your site differently from a human. Without the right structural signals, your best copy stays invisible. THE AI VISIBILITY AUDIT ## Six review areas and a live AI check. Every finding with its evidence URL. Our audit agents draft the analysis; the team fact-checks it, reviews every finding and signs it off. It starts from 15 buyer questions we agree on with you, tracked with Cited on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, plus a manual Bing Copilot check of the 5 core questions. - ### AI crawler access - robots.txt—a request to crawlers, not a lock - Bot rules in your CDN and firewall - Which AI crawlers can reach your pages - ### Structured data - Organization and LocalBusiness markup with sameAs - Product, Service and FAQ markup where it fits - Errors and gaps per page template - ### Technical basics and PageSpeed - Load time and mobile rendering - Indexability, sitemaps and canonicals - Security headers and contact paths - ### Accessibility sample - Screen reader and keyboard use on key pages - Color contrast - Pointers on the EU Accessibility Act (BFSG) - ### Citability, entity and listings - Answers an AI can quote without extra context - Consistent business facts across Google, Bing and directories - Where competitors get cited instead - ### Hygiene checklist - Legal notice and privacy policy present and reachable - Consent banner and trackers - A neutral checklist, not legal advice - ### AI answers check - Cited scan: 15 buyer questions on five AI platforms - Manual Bing Copilot check of the 5 core questions - Which competitors get named instead Curious to know where your company would land? [Start Your AI Audit](https://digitaldomination.xyz/en/onboarding/audit) WHY IT’S THIS DETAILED ## We actually do our homework. Cited’s free website audit already gives you an automated checklist, and for some sites that’s enough. The paid audit starts there and adds what a tool can’t: a manual Bing Copilot check, a hygiene checklist, an accessibility and PageSpeed review, and Cited’s action plan triaged—false positives out, every to-do with the URL that proves it. Our audit agents draft the analysis; the team fact-checks it, reviews every finding and signs it off. Want to take care of it yourself? The one-page action list tells you what to do, in order. Prefer to delegate? Pick a fixed-price next step below—what you paid for the audit counts in full toward a Fix Pack or Sprint within 60 days. ![Alexander Kirsch-Clayton](https://digitaldomination.xyz/assets/images/alexander.webp?v=1782014573) Alexander Kirsch-Clayton Founder · Digital Domination · [Jetzt Übersetzt](https://jetzt-uebersetzt.de/) PACKAGES ## $390 gets you a reviewed diagnosis. Every next step has a fixed price. Pick the step that fits. No package comes with a guarantee of AI mentions, citations or rankings—nobody controls what the models answer. Already have a Cited plan and just want its tech items done: Fix Pack. Want a reviewed diagnosis first: Audit. The entry point ### AI Visibility Audit For owners who want a reviewed diagnosis before they spend more. A PDF report plus a one-page action list within 2 business days of your completed intake, then a 30-minute walkthrough call. Both documents are yours, whether or not you continue with us. - Intake: your domain, your market, up to 3 competitors and 15 buyer questions we agree on with you - Tracked with Cited on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, plus a manual Bing Copilot check of the 5 core questions - Cited’s automated website audit as your documented baseline - Team review: AI crawler access (robots.txt and CDN or firewall bot rules), structured data, technical basics and PageSpeed, an accessibility sample, citability, and consistent entity facts and listings - A short hygiene checklist for your legal pages and consent—neutral wording, not legal advice - Cited’s action plan triaged: false positives removed, every to-do tagged DIY, Fix Pack or Sprint, each with its evidence URL - PDF report and one-page action list within 2 business days of your completed intake - 30-minute walkthrough call - 90 days of Cited Base on your own Cited account, with your baseline kept. The seat ends automatically: no charge, nothing to cancel Not included: implementation, tracking after day 90, legal advice, more than 3 competitors or more than 1 domain, and any guarantee of AI mentions, citations or rankings. $390 one-time · net · card on order [Order the Audit](https://digitaldomination.xyz/en/onboarding/audit) Counts in full toward a Fix Pack or Sprint booked within 60 days. A share of every audit goes to climate projects via [Stripe Climate](https://climate.stripe.com/IZtVHb). ### Next steps, each at a fixed price Fixed price, fixed scope, and your audit fee counts in full toward a Fix Pack or Sprint within 60 days. Every card says what it leaves out. Whatever you paid us for visibility work in the last 60 days counts in full toward a bigger one-time step. - #### Fix Pack For Cited users and audit buyers who want the tech items done. $590 one-time · paid by card once we’ve confirmed your 5 fixes · done within 10 business days of access Pick 5 fixes from the menu below, or we map 5 items from your Cited plan onto it. We confirm the 5 before you pay, check each against your live site first and swap a false positive for another item. Works on WordPress, Shopify, Wix and Squarespace. The menu, 1 unit each - AI crawler access: robots.txt plus CDN and firewall bot rules - Organization (+ LocalBusiness) schema with sameAs, sitewide - Product/Offer schema on one product template, or Service schema on one service template - FAQPage markup for one existing, visible FAQ - Google Business Profile correction, one location - Bing Places claim or correction, one location - Titles and meta descriptions for up to 10 pages - XML sitemap, canonicals and hreflang checked and fixed - Corrections requested on up to 5 directory listings (third parties decide when they apply them) - llms.txt created or fixed, as housekeeping Every fix is verified afterwards, and you get a short handover note. No admin or collaborator access? You get the same items as a paste-pack at the same price. If neither access nor a paste-pack decision arrives within 30 days, you get a full refund, as long as work hasn’t started. Not included: copywriting or content, design or theme changes, speed work beyond quick wins, off-menu items ($79/h in 15-minute blocks), license fees, and any guarantee of AI mentions, citations or rankings. [Book the Fix Pack](https://digitaldomination.xyz/en/onboarding/fix-pack) - #### Local Sprint For local service businesses, practices, studios and clubs. $990 +$290 per extra location · one-time · 50% at kickoff, 50% at handover · done within 2 weeks of access and your approval of the work plan, plus 2 business days per extra location Be the business AI and Google can name when someone nearby asks. What’s included - The Audit as week 0, or its $390 credited if you bought it in the last 60 days - Google Business Profile cleanup and build-out, 1 location - Bing Places and Apple Business Connect aligned - Name, address and phone consistent on up to 5 directories for your country and trade (corrections requested) - LocalBusiness, Service and FAQ schema (FAQ only where one is visible) - AI crawler access—you decide whether training crawlers are allowed - Answer-first edits on up to 3 service or location pages: drafted by the team, one revision round, you approve - Review-request kit: template, link and QR code - llms.txt as housekeeping - 6 months of Cited Base with 15 local questions, on your own Cited account. The seat ends automatically: no charge, nothing to cancel - 45-minute handover call and a one-page upkeep checklist - Each extra location: listings, schema and 5 directories for that location Not included: generating reviews, profile posts after handover, photos, new pages, a rebuild, translations, ads, rewrites of your legal pages (checklist only), third-party fees such as paid listings, and any guarantee of AI mentions, citations or rankings. [Book the Local Sprint](https://digitaldomination.xyz/en/onboarding/local-sprint) - #### Foundation Sprint For brands, stores and firms that compete for the same questions in their category. $1,790 one-time · 50% at kickoff, 50% at handover · done within 3 weeks of access and your approval of the work plan Be the brand AI can recommend in your category. What’s included - The Audit as week 0, or its $390 credited: then $505 at kickoff and $895 at handover - Technical layer, no item cap: crawler access, schema across your templates (Organization with sameAs, plus Product/Offer with shipping and returns, or Service/Person), sitemaps, canonicals, hreflang, llms.txt housekeeping - Entity layer: Google Business Profile and Bing Places where relevant, consistent brand facts on up to 8 third-party profiles (corrections requested) - Answer-first rewrites of up to 5 key pages, plus FAQ answers for your tracked questions: drafted by the team, one revision round, you approve - Products track (stores and DTC brands): a where-to-buy or stockist page, and a review app installed and configured - Services track (firms): expert pages for up to 3 people and up to 3 case-study pages from material you supply - Measurement: UTM conventions and a GA4 segment for visits from AI assistants - 6 months of Cited Pro on your own Cited account: baseline on day 1, progress PDF at handover and at month 3, presented as data, not as proof. The seat ends automatically: no charge, nothing to cancel - 3 calls (kickoff, midpoint, handover), and in month 5 an email with your options No admin access? You get the same work as a paste-pack at the same price. Not included: PR or press, Reddit or Wikipedia work, founder-story copy, link building, review generation, ads, Merchant Center, email marketing, more than 5 pages of copy, a second language, theme rebuilds, speed work beyond quick wins, ongoing work, third-party fees (such as for the review app, plugins or paid listings), and any guarantee of AI mentions, citations or rankings. [Book the Foundation Sprint](https://digitaldomination.xyz/en/onboarding/foundation-sprint) - #### Managed Visibility For Sprint graduates, Website Maintenance clients, and Cited users who want hands-on help. $290 per month, all-in · 3-month minimum · card Your site’s Cited Pro seat plus real implementation work every month. Without an Audit or Sprint in the last 12 months, month 1 starts with a triage of your Cited plan, inside the 2 hours. What’s included - Cited Pro for your site on your own Cited account for as long as Managed Visibility runs - Up to 2 hours a month of implementation from your plan: schema, FAQ blocks, meta, internal links, listings, crawler rules. Unused hours don’t roll over - Monthly: triage of Cited’s action-plan update, plus a one-page note (what we changed, what Cited shows, what comes next) with the Cited progress PDF, presented as data, not as proof - Quarterly: prompt-set review, a manual Bing Copilot check and a 30-minute call - Email answers within one business day (CET business hours) - If you cancel, the seat stays yours: keep Cited at its list price with your history, or let it lapse without a charge Already paying for Cited yourself? Talk to us before you book. Not included: content or articles, PR or links, reviews, hosting or maintenance, extra hours ($79/h in 15-minute blocks), additional sites, and any guarantee of AI mentions, citations or rankings. [Start Managed Visibility](https://digitaldomination.xyz/en/onboarding/managed-visibility) The DIY path ### Do it yourself with Cited Cited is our own AI visibility tracker. Start with the free scan—no account needed—then track on your own. A real option, not a trial. - Free Scan $0 No account: 5 questions across the five platforms, once - Free $0 1 brand, 5 questions, weekly on ChatGPT, plus the automated website audit and action plan - Base $19/month 1 brand, up to 15 questions, weekly on all five platforms, alerts - Pro $39/month Up to 3 brands, a monthly action-plan update, progress PDF, 12-month history Or yearly: Base $189, Pro $389. Not included: human review, implementation, a Bing Copilot check, the hygiene checklist, calls, and any guarantee of AI mentions, citations or rankings. [Run a Free Scan →](https://joincited.ai/free-scan?utm_campaign=dd-free-scan&utm_source=dd-geo-diy&utm_medium=website) WHAT TO EXPECT ## Your PDF within 2 business days. From order to action list, then the next step is your call. Here’s how it plays out. 1. Day 0 ### Order and intake Pay by card in the order form and tell us your domain, your market, up to 3 competitors and the questions your buyers ask. We agree on the 15 questions together. 2. Within 2 business days ### Scan, review, sign-off Cited scans your 15 questions on five AI platforms, and the 5 core questions get a manual Bing Copilot check. Our audit agents draft the analysis; the team fact-checks it, reviews every finding and signs it off. 3. Then ### 30-minute walkthrough We go through the findings and the to-dos tagged DIY, Fix Pack or Sprint. 4. Your call ### Run it yourself, or delegate Work through the action list with 90 days of Cited Base. Or book a Fix Pack (10 business days), a Local Sprint (2 weeks) or a Foundation Sprint (3 weeks); your audit fee counts in full within 60 days. 5. Day 90 ### Your Cited seat ends Automatically, with no charge and nothing to cancel. Then you choose: keep Cited at its list price, move to Managed Visibility, or stop. COMMON QUESTIONS ## The questions we hear most often. **GEO? AEO? SEO? What’s what?** GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) are two names for the same thing: optimizing to be cited in answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. SEO optimizes for Google’s results pages. The signals overlap, but GEO / AEO weight different factors more heavily. A site can rank #1 on Google—and never be mentioned by ChatGPT. **Which AI platforms do you check?** Tracked with Cited on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, plus a manual Bing Copilot check. The audit runs your 15 agreed buyer questions on all five platforms; the 5 core questions also get the Bing Copilot check. **Why $390 when Cited’s automated audit is free?** Cited Free gives you a machine checklist, and for some sites that’s enough. The paid audit is the reviewed version: our audit agents draft it, and the team fact-checks, reviews and signs it off. It adds a manual Bing Copilot check, a hygiene checklist and an accessibility and PageSpeed review, removes the false positives from Cited’s action plan, and walks you through the result in a 30-minute call. The $390 counts in full toward a Fix Pack or Sprint booked within 60 days. **What’s in the audit, and what isn’t?** In: the Cited scan of your 15 buyer questions on five AI platforms, a manual Bing Copilot check of the 5 core questions, Cited’s automated website audit as your baseline, the team’s review (crawler access, structured data, technical basics and PageSpeed, an accessibility sample, citability and listings), a hygiene checklist for your legal pages and consent, a triaged action plan, the PDF and one-page action list within 2 business days of your completed intake, a 30-minute call and 90 days of Cited Base. Not in: implementation, tracking after day 90, legal advice, more than 3 competitors or 1 domain, and any guarantee of AI mentions, citations or rankings. **How does the 60-day credit work?** Whatever you paid us for visibility work in the last 60 days counts in full toward a bigger one-time step: the Audit toward a Fix Pack or a Sprint, a Fix Pack toward a Sprint. It shows on your invoice as its own credit line, and altogether you never pay more than the biggest step you book. Monthly fees, such as Managed Visibility, don’t count toward it. **What happens to the Cited seat?** Each site gets one Cited seat on your own Cited account. It carries over from step to step, so your baseline history stays—unless the account has or had its own paid Cited plan: then the seat goes on a new account, and the earlier history stays in the old one. A seat we include ends automatically when its included period ends: after 90 days for the Audit, after 6 months for a Sprint, or when your Managed Visibility or Website Maintenance plan ends. No charge, nothing to cancel. Then you choose: keep Cited at its list price, Managed Visibility at $290 a month, or stop. **How long until measurable results?** Technical fixes are live the moment we deploy them. Local SEO signals start showing at 8–12 weeks. AI citations take longest—three to six months—because AI models refresh their source indexes less often. **Is there a results guarantee?** No, and frankly anyone claiming one is misleading you. Neither we nor anyone else controls what OpenAI or Google include in their models. What we do guarantee: every recommendation is independently verifiable. If you can substantively refute a finding, we’ll either revise it or refund the audit price. **Are prices shown gross or net? How is EU VAT handled?** All prices are net; VAT is added only where it applies. We work with businesses, public bodies and nonprofits, not consumers: - EU businesses, with or without a VAT ID, and organizations with a VAT ID: reverse charge (Article 196 of the EU VAT Directive). You account for the VAT; our invoice shows none. - EU public bodies and nonprofits without a VAT ID, such as schools and associations: hosting and Website Maintenance carry your country’s VAT, which we report through the non-Union OSS (Ireland). Website builds, migrations, audits, the Fix Pack, the sprints and Managed Visibility carry no VAT (place of supply: United States, § 3a(1) UStG). You pay by invoice and bank transfer, not through Stripe. - We check any VAT ID you give in VIES. If VIES doesn’t confirm it, we treat it as not given. - Customers outside the EU pay no VAT. ## $390 · reviewed by the team · PDF in 2 business days Clarity on whether you show up in ChatGPT. If not: why not, and what to do about it. [Start Your AI Audit](https://digitaldomination.xyz/en/onboarding/audit) [Or Book a Consult →](https://digitaldomination.xyz/en/contact)