GEO guides
Everything here is what the scoring engine measures, explained in prose. If a guide says something the checker does not check, it says so.
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What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?
GEO is optimising a page to be quoted inside an AI-generated answer rather than ranked in a list of links. Here is what changes, what carries over from SEO, and what to do first.
How to get cited by ChatGPT
Four things decide whether ChatGPT can cite your page: crawler access, server-rendered content, a clear entity, and a passage that answers the question in its first sentence. Here is how to fix each.
Answer-first writing: the highest-leverage GEO fix
Answer-first writing means each section answers its own heading in the first sentence. It is worth 13 of 100 points in the CiteSnap model — more than schema, FAQ markup and llms.txt combined.