# SEO·AEO·GEO > Free technical GEO / AEO audit. Enter a URL, get an evidence-traced report on how AI systems retrieve, extract, and cite your pages. SEO·AEO·GEO scores Retrieval, Extractability, Authority and Hygiene for Google Search, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude: crawler access per bot, CDN and firewall blocks, snippet controls, raw-HTML visibility, freshness and entity presence. Every check carries an evidence grade with sources. Site: https://seoaeogeo.app/ Audit: https://seoaeogeo.app/#audit Research: https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs Methodology (how the score works and what we don't score; the full engine is for Pro and Agency subscribers): https://seoaeogeo.app/methodology How to get a business mentioned by AI, engine by engine (ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Meta AI, Siri): https://seoaeogeo.app/get-mentioned-by-ai For agencies (white-label reports, embeddable widget): https://seoaeogeo.app/agencies For hosting companies, CMS vendors and website builders (design partners for an AI-search readiness API): https://seoaeogeo.app/platforms MCP server for coding agents (Streamable HTTP, tools: audit_url, get_report): https://seoaeogeo.app/mcp — setup: https://seoaeogeo.app/agents Author: https://seoaeogeo.app/authors/aalhad ## Research - [GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot: What to Block and What to Allow in 2026](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/gptbot-vs-oai-searchbot-robots-txt-2026): OpenAI runs three agents with three different jobs. Treating them as one bot, in robots.txt or in a CDN setting, is how sites opt out of ChatGPT search without meaning to. - [JSON-LD and AI Citations: What Schema Markup Does and Doesn’t Do](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/json-ld-schema-ai-citations-what-actually-works): Schema is not a citation lever. It is a machine-readable restatement of facts your page already shows, and in 2026 that is worth having for rich results and entity clarity, not for AI answers. - [How AI Crawlers Read Your HTML: Headings, Landmarks and Lists](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/semantic-html-extraction-path-ai-crawlers): Google calls semantic HTML a good idea, not a requirement. For crawlers that don’t run JavaScript, the bigger question is whether your words are in the HTML at all. - [AI Crawlers and Page Speed: Timeouts, Redirects and Raw HTML](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/ai-crawler-fetch-budgets-ttfb-geo): A green Lighthouse score won’t help if a firewall refuses the crawler or the content only exists after JavaScript runs. Speed matters most at the slow extreme. - [E-E-A-T for AI Search: Bylines, sameAs and What the Evidence Shows](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/eeat-authorship-sameas-ai-citations): Google’s systems reward pages that make it clear who wrote them and why they can be trusted. The AI-specific evidence is thinner than most guides admit, and the strongest of it points off your site. - [Canonical URLs and Open Graph: Getting One URL Credited Everywhere](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/canonicals-open-graph-ai-citation-urls): Your canonical tells Google which URL to credit. Other AI engines don’t document their rule, so the safe move is one URL that every signal agrees on. - [SEO·AEO·GEO Reports: How to Read a Finding and Turn It Into a Fix](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/geo-audit-reports-evidence-json-llm-ready-fixes): A score nobody can act on is a vanity metric. Every SEO·AEO·GEO finding says what was checked, what was found, what to change and how strong the evidence is behind it. - [How to Get ChatGPT to Recommend Your Business (Evidence-Graded)](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/how-to-get-chatgpt-to-recommend-your-business): There is no form to fill in and no setting to switch on. There is a short list of things that demonstrably matter, a longer list of things people sell that don’t, and a way to tell them apart. - [Robots.txt Says Yes, the Firewall Says No: AI Search-Bot Access on the Top 5,000 Websites (October 2026)](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/ai-crawler-access-study-2026): Most AI-crawler studies read robots.txt and stop there. We also requested each home page as OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and Claude-SearchBot, then re-checked every refusal with two control requests to see which blocks are actually aimed at AI. - [Can ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity Read Your Website? A 5-Gate Test You Can Run Yourself](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/can-chatgpt-claude-perplexity-read-your-website): Most “is my site visible to AI” checkers read robots.txt and stop. The blocks that actually hide sites sit in the firewall, the JavaScript and the headers. Here is how to test all five layers, and how far a test from your laptop can be trusted. - [Why ChatGPT Recommends Your Competitor, Not You: How to Find Out](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/why-chatgpt-recommends-your-competitor): It usually isn’t your website. It’s the handful of lists, directories and review pages ChatGPT read before it answered, and those pages can be found, checked and worked on. - [How Does ChatGPT Choose Its Sources? Documented, Measured, Myth](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/how-chatgpt-chooses-sources): Most explanations of ChatGPT’s sources blend OpenAI’s own documentation with vendor guesses and forum folklore. We separated the three, graded every claim, and checked the robots.txt files of sites ChatGPT is said to rely on. - [GEO Myths, Graded: llms.txt, Schema, FAQ Pages and 15 More](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/geo-myths-graded-llms-txt-schema-faq): Most GEO advice repeats the same checklist. We graded 18 of its claims against what the platforms document and what the tests actually found. - [Is Cloudflare Blocking Googlebot or ChatGPT? The 2026 Settings](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/cloudflare-ai-crawl-control-googlebot-bingbot-2026): Most pages ranking for this were written before 15 September 2026 and describe a plan Cloudflare then changed. Here is what each setting does now, what happened to old settings, and how to test your own site. - [Why Isn’t My Page in AI Overviews? The 2026 Eligibility Rules](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/ai-overviews-eligibility-nosnippet-google-extended): Three conditions make a page eligible for AI Overviews and AI Mode. One of them cannot be seen from outside your Search Console, and the setting most people blame, Google-Extended, isn’t one of them. - [Content-Signal in robots.txt: search=yes, ai-train=no Explained](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/content-signal-robots-txt-search-ai-train): In 2025 Cloudflare wrote this line into the robots.txt of more than 3.8 million domains, yet the big AI crawlers don’t document reading it. Here is what it says, what it doesn’t do, how it differs from the IETF’s Content-Usage draft, and whether yours needs one. - [How to Measure AI Visibility Without Fooling Yourself](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/how-to-measure-ai-visibility): Every AI visibility number you can trust today comes from four free dashboards and your own enquiry form. Here is what each one measures, what none of them can, and a routine that holds up in front of a client. - [utm_source=chatgpt.com: What It Means in Your URL and Analytics](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/utm-source-chatgpt-com-meaning): It is a label, not a tracker. If you saw it in a link, you can delete it. If you own the site, it is the most reliable AI-traffic signal you have, and it still undercounts. - [GA4 AI Assistant Channel: What It Misses, Plus a Tested Regex](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/ga4-ai-assistant-channel-track-ai-traffic): Google’s new channel is a good start and a poor total. Here is exactly what it counts, where the rest of your AI traffic hides, and a copy-paste channel group we tested on 13 October 2026. - [Search Console’s AI Overviews and AI Mode Report, and the Opt-Out Setting: A Plain-English Guide](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/search-console-ai-overviews-ai-mode-report): Google now reports how often AI Overviews and AI Mode show your links, and lets you leave them with one setting. Here is what the numbers mean, what they leave out, and what Exclude actually switches off. - [Bing’s AI Performance Report: The Only Free Source of Real AI Citation Data, and How to Read Grounding Queries](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/bing-ai-performance-report-grounding-queries): Every other free AI metric is a proxy. Bing’s report counts the times an AI answer actually cited your page, and shows the search phrases behind those citations. Here is how to set it up, what each number means, and how to turn a grounding query into a fix. - [How Local Businesses Get Recommended by ChatGPT, Google and Siri](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/local-business-recommended-by-chatgpt-google-ai-siri): Your Google ranking doesn’t carry over. Each assistant reads a different local database, and only one of them belongs to Google. - [How to Get Your Products Into ChatGPT Shopping and Google AI Mode](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/get-products-in-chatgpt-shopping-google-ai-mode): Shopping assistants read feeds, not prose. Most of the confusion comes from rules that changed in March 2026, and documentation that hasn’t caught up. - [Meta-WebIndexer, Meta-ExternalFetcher and Amzn-SearchBot: The New AI Crawlers in Your Logs, and Whether to Allow Them](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/meta-webindexer-amzn-searchbot-new-ai-crawlers): Meta and Amazon now run separate crawlers for search, training and live fetches. Two of them decide whether Meta AI and Alexa can cite you. Most robots.txt files we checked name the training bots and ignore the search ones. - [How Agencies Sell GEO Services in 2026: Price Benchmarks, Packaging and Reports That Don’t Overpromise](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/how-agencies-sell-geo-services-2026): Clients are asking for AI visibility faster than anyone can prove it works. The agencies that keep those clients sell two different things at two different prices, and report only what they can measure. - [How to Choose a GEO Audit Tool: 8 Checks Before You Trust the Score](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/how-to-choose-a-geo-audit-tool): There are now dozens of GEO, AEO and AI-visibility tools, and they often contradict each other. Most of the disagreement comes from a handful of avoidable errors. Here is how to spot them in a few minutes. - [SEO vs AEO vs GEO: What's Actually Different, and What Isn't](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/seo-vs-aeo-vs-geo): Three acronyms, one question: what do you actually have to do differently? Less than the hype suggests, and more than “it's all just SEO”. Here is the line, with sources. - [Who Blocks Meta's AI Crawlers? 99 Big Sites Shut Out OpenAI's and Left Meta's Open](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/who-blocks-meta-ai-crawlers-2026): Meta says site owners who object to its crawling should use robots.txt. Most big sites already have a line for OpenAI's training crawler. Far fewer have one for Meta's. - [SEO·AEO·GEO vs HubSpot AI Search Grader vs SEOmator GEO Audit: What Each One Actually Checks](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/seoaeogeo-vs-hubspot-ai-search-grader-vs-seomator): All three are free and all three return a score out of 100, so they look interchangeable. They aren't. One asks AI models what they think of your brand, one grades your pages against a broad GEO rubric, and one tests whether AI search crawlers can actually get in. Here is the difference, from each vendor's own page, and who should pick which. - [What Is AEO? Answer Engine Optimization in Digital Marketing, Explained](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/what-is-aeo-answer-engine-optimization): In marketing, AEO means answer engine optimization: getting your content chosen as the answer, not just ranked as a link. Here is what that involves, where it overlaps with SEO and GEO, and the few things that really move it. - [Black Hat vs White Hat SEO: What Google Penalizes, and What Works Instead](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/black-hat-vs-white-hat-seo): Every black hat tactic has a name in Google's spam policies, and Google says sites that break them may rank lower or disappear. Here's each one in plain English, with the white hat version that gets the same result without the risk. - [How to Choose an SEO Agency, Consultant or Freelancer (Without Getting Burned)](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/how-to-choose-an-seo-agency): Most bad SEO hires are avoidable. Check the provider's own site, ask the questions Google itself recommends, insist on seeing every change, and walk away from anyone who guarantees rankings. - [How to Track Keyword Rankings (Free With Search Console, or With a Rank Tracker)](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/how-to-track-keyword-rankings): Search Console tells you where your pages actually appeared, for free. A rank tracker tells you where they'd appear for chosen keywords and places, every day. Most sites need the first; some need both. - [How to Improve Your Google Ranking: 10 Fixes in Order of Impact](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/how-to-improve-google-ranking): Most ranking gains come from pages you already have. Find the ones Google shows but nobody clicks, fix what stops them being crawled, and make each one the most complete answer to its query. - [Local SEO: How to Rank in Google Maps and Local Search](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/local-seo-guide): Google says local results come down to relevance, distance and prominence, and that you can't pay to rank higher. Here's what each means and the work that moves them, from your Business Profile to your website. - [SEO Blogging: How to Plan, Write and Update Posts That Rank and Get Cited](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/seo-blogging-content-marketing): A blog ranks when each post answers one question better than anything else on the results page. Here's a process for choosing topics, writing, linking and updating, grounded in what Google says it rewards. - [SEO Competitor Analysis: A Step-by-Step Method (Free and Paid Tools)](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/seo-competitor-analysis): Your search competitors aren't always your business competitors. Find who actually ranks for your searches, compare their pages with yours check by check, then copy the reasons they win, not the pages. - [SEO in Digital Marketing: Where Search Fits With Ads, Social, Email and Content](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/seo-in-digital-marketing): SEO is the part of digital marketing that captures people who are already searching. It's slow to start and cheap to keep. Here's how it fits with the channels that create demand. - [SEO for Beginners: A 90-Day Plan for Your First Website](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/seo-for-beginners): You don't need tools or a budget to start. You need a few hours a week, Google's free Search Console, and a plan that does the important things in the right order. - [What Is SEO? Search Engine Optimization Explained in Plain English](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/what-is-seo): SEO is the work of making your pages easy for search engines to find, understand and show. Here is how Google actually ranks pages, what you can control, what Google says to ignore, and where AI search fits. - [How Much Does SEO Cost? SEO Pricing, Packages and What You Should Get](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/seo-pricing-cost): SEO is sold three ways: a monthly retainer, a fixed project or an hourly rate. Survey data shows what providers actually charge, and Google's own guidance shows what to avoid in a cheap package. - [How to Write an SEO Proposal That Wins the Client (With a Template)](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/seo-proposal-template): A good SEO proposal starts with the client's own site, not your credentials: three or four specific findings, what you'll fix in what order, how they'll see progress, and what it costs. Here's an outline you can copy. - [SEO vs SEM: The Difference, and When to Use Each](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/seo-vs-sem): SEO earns your place in the unpaid results. SEM, in most people's usage, means buying ads on the same page. One compounds slowly, the other starts and stops with your budget, and they work best together. - [SEO-Friendly Web Design: What Designers and Developers Must Get Right](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/seo-friendly-web-design): Most SEO problems are built in at launch: a JavaScript-only page, a noindex left on, URLs that change in a redesign. Here's what to get right in design and development, and what to ask before you hire. - [Technical SEO Checklist: 30 Checks for Google and AI Search](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/technical-seo-checklist): Technical SEO decides whether your content gets a chance at all. This checklist covers what Google needs, adds what AI crawlers need, and marks which checks a free audit can run for you. - [White-Label SEO: How Agencies Resell SEO Services Under Their Own Brand](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/white-label-seo): White-label SEO lets an agency sell SEO under its own name while a partner or tool does part of the work. It works when you keep the client relationship and the quality control, and outsource the parts that scale. - [How to Learn SEO: Free Official Resources, Books, Courses and News](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/how-to-learn-seo): The best SEO course is free and written by Google. Start there, practise on a real site, read one good book, and follow a few news sources that report what search engines actually announce. - [Python for SEO: 4 Scripts to Audit Pages, robots.txt, Sitemaps and Search Console](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/python-for-seo): A few short Python scripts can check hundreds of pages in the time it takes to open ten in a browser. These four use only the standard library, plus the documented Search Console API. - [The Top Search Engines in 2026, and How to Be Visible in Each](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/search-engines-list): Google handles about nine in ten searches worldwide, but Bing powers more products than its share suggests, and AI answer engines are a new kind of search engine with their own crawlers. Here's the list, with what to do for each. - [SEO Analytics: What to Measure in Search Console and GA4](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/seo-analytics-search-console-ga4): Search Console tells you how people found you in Google; GA4 tells you what they did next. Link them, watch a handful of reports, and you can see which pages and searches actually bring customers. - [Google’s 15 October AI Mode Update: Official Pages, Preferred Sources and Search Profiles](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/google-ai-mode-october-2026-official-pages-preferred-sources): Google announced five changes to AI Mode and AI Overviews on 15 October. Here is what each one is, its status (launching, testing or rolling out), and what a site owner can and can't do about it. - [What Does AI Say About My Business? A 30-Minute Check Across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Copilot](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/what-does-ai-say-about-my-business): Before you try to change what AI says about you, write down what it says now. Twelve questions, five assistants, one sheet, and a way to tell a wrong fact from a missing one. - [ChatGPT Has Wrong Information About My Business: How to Fix It (and What You Can’t Fix)](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/chatgpt-wrong-information-about-my-business): There’s no form that edits what ChatGPT believes about a business. There is a reliable way to find where a wrong fact comes from, and most of the time the fix is on a page you can change. - [How to Help AI Understand and Explain What Your Business Does](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/help-ai-understand-your-business): Assistants can only explain you in the words the web gives them. If your own site says “innovative solutions” and three directories disagree on what you do, that is what they have to work with. - [How to Get Your Business on ChatGPT: Every Real Route, and the Ones That Don’t Exist](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/how-to-get-your-business-on-chatgpt): People search for a “list my business on ChatGPT” form. It doesn’t exist. Five real routes do, each with its own door, and most businesses only need the first. - [How to Get Your Business Cited and Recommended by Perplexity](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/get-recommended-by-perplexity): Perplexity shows its sources on almost every answer, which makes it the most honest engine to work on: you can see exactly which pages won, and why you weren’t one of them. - [How to Get Your Business Mentioned by Google Gemini (and Why Google-Extended Matters)](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/get-recommended-by-gemini): Gemini looks like Google Search with a chat box, and mostly it is. The exception is a single robots.txt token that many sites block without knowing it also decides whether Gemini can ground an answer on their pages. - [How to Get Your Business Recommended by Microsoft Copilot (It Runs on Bing)](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/get-recommended-by-microsoft-copilot): Copilot is the one AI assistant whose maker gives you a citation report. If you’ve never opened Bing Webmaster Tools, this is the cheapest AI visibility win you have. - [How to Get Your Business Mentioned by Claude: Anthropic’s Three Crawlers and the Brave Connection](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/get-mentioned-by-claude): Claude is the only major assistant whose maker documents three crawlers with three different jobs, and the only one whose search provider was identified from the outside rather than announced. - [How to Get on the “Best Of” Lists That ChatGPT and Google AI Cite](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/get-on-best-of-lists-ai-cites): When an assistant recommends three businesses, it’s usually repeating a list someone else wrote. Getting onto the right lists is slow, unglamorous outreach, and it is the best-evidenced lever there is. - [Reddit and AI Search: Does Reddit Get Your Business Mentioned by ChatGPT and Google?](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/reddit-ai-visibility): “Post on Reddit to get into ChatGPT” is the most repeated piece of AI-visibility advice of the past two years. Some of it is true. The version most people sell is how businesses get banned. - [Do Reviews Affect AI Recommendations? What the Data Shows, and How to Get More (Legally)](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/reviews-ai-recommendations): Reviews behave less like a ranking factor and more like a gate. Below a certain rating, or with nothing recent, you rarely make the shortlist an assistant reads out. - [How to Get AI to Say Good Things About Your Business (Without Gaming It)](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/make-ai-say-good-things-about-your-business): Assistants don’t have opinions about you. They have a summary of other people’s. Change what people say and the summary follows; try to fake it and the summary usually gets worse. - [Does YouTube Help You Get Mentioned by AI? What 2026 Citation Data Shows](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/youtube-ai-visibility): Of all the off-site signals studied, YouTube mentions correlated most strongly with AI visibility. That doesn’t mean every business needs a channel. It does mean a few good videos may be the most under-used lever you have. - [How to Get Your Software (SaaS) Recommended by ChatGPT and Gemini](https://seoaeogeo.app/blogs/get-software-recommended-by-chatgpt): Software is the category where your own website matters most to AI answers. In one 2026 index, ChatGPT cited the recommended product’s own site 53% of the time. 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[Flutter web SEO: what Flutter's own docs recommend](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/flutter): Flutter web SEO: why Flutter's docs say its web output isn't built for search indexing, and the fix: HTML or Jaspr for content, Flutter for the app. - [The best CMS for SEO: what to look for](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/cms): How to choose a CMS for SEO: server rendering, control of titles, URLs and redirects, sitemaps, structured data, speed and AI crawler access. 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Steps with Bing Webmaster Tools and IndexNow. - [Baidu SEO: the basics of ranking in China](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/baidu): Baidu SEO basics: Baidu Search Resource Platform, simplified Chinese content, hosting and ICP filing in mainland China, speed and Baiduspider access. - [Yandex SEO: the basics](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/yandex): Yandex SEO basics: Yandex Webmaster, regional settings, IndexNow, the Clean-param robots.txt directive and writing for Russian-speaking users. - [LinkedIn SEO: getting found on LinkedIn and Google](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/linkedin): LinkedIn SEO: how to optimize your profile and company page to appear in LinkedIn search and Google, public profile settings, headlines, skills and articles. - [Dental SEO: how dentists get found on Google and AI](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/dental): Dental SEO step by step: Google Business Profile, treatment pages, reviews, Dentist schema and AI recommendations, plus what to ask a dental SEO company. - [SEO for plumbers: how to win local emergency searches](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/plumbers): SEO for plumbers: service-area Business Profile, service pages, reviews, Plumber schema, avoiding doorway pages, and how AI assistants pick local trades. - [SEO for real estate: how agents get found](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/real-estate): SEO for real estate agents: office Business Profiles, neighbourhood guides, listing pages, RealEstateAgent schema, and how AI assistants recommend agents. - [SEO for accountants: how firms get found by clients](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/accountants): SEO for accountants and CA firms: Business Profile, service pages by client type, up-to-date tax guides, AccountingService schema and AI recommendations. - [Automotive SEO: for dealers and repair shops](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/automotive): Automotive SEO for dealers and garages: Business Profile, inventory and service pages, AutoDealer and AutoRepair schema, reviews and AI recommendations. - [Spa and salon SEO: getting found locally](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/spa): SEO for spas and salons: Business Profile, treatment pages with prices, DaySpa and BeautySalon schema, reviews, booking, and AI assistant recommendations. - [Ecommerce SEO: a practical guide for online stores](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/ecommerce): Ecommerce SEO step by step: site structure, category and product pages, duplicate URLs and faceted navigation, Product schema, Merchant Center and AI shopping. - [SaaS SEO: a practical playbook for software companies](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/saas): SaaS SEO: product and feature pages, use-case and integration pages, comparisons, documentation, rendering for JavaScript apps, schema and AI search visibility. - [SEO for small business: a simple, affordable plan](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/small-business): SEO for small businesses: what to do first, Google Business Profile, a few strong pages, reviews, free tools, and how to judge affordable SEO packages. - [SEO for startups: what to do before you have traffic](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/startups): SEO for startups: technical foundations at launch, brand and category pages, comparison content, free tools, and the early mistakes that are hard to undo. - [B2B SEO: reaching business buyers through search](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/b2b): B2B SEO: targeting low-volume, high-value searches, solution and industry pages, case studies, comparison content, and what to expect from B2B SEO services. - [Etsy SEO: how to rank your listings in Etsy search](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/etsy): Etsy SEO: how Etsy search matches and ranks listings, titles, the 13 tags, attributes, engagement and shipping, plus what eRank and Marmalead do. - [Amazon SEO: how Amazon search ranking works, and how to rank products](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/amazon): Amazon SEO: product titles, bullet points, backend search terms, images, price and reviews, what people mean by A9, and how to check keyword rankings. - [eBay SEO: how to rank higher in Best Match](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/ebay): eBay SEO: what eBay's Best Match considers, titles of up to 80 characters, item specifics, photos, price, shipping, returns and seller performance. - [Airbnb SEO: how to rank higher in Airbnb search](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo/airbnb): Airbnb SEO for hosts: what Airbnb says affects search ranking (quality, popularity, price, location), plus photos, availability, Instant Book and reviews. ## SEO glossary - [Backlink analysis](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/backlink-analysis): Backlink analysis means reviewing which sites link to a website, how good those links are, and how they compare with competitors' links. - [Backlinks](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/backlinks): A backlink is a link from another website to a page on yours. Google uses links to discover pages and as one signal of their importance. - [Canonical tag](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/canonical-tag): A canonical tag (rel="canonical") tells search engines which URL is the main version of a page when the same content is available at several addresses. - [Cloaking](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/cloaking): Cloaking is showing search engines different content from what human visitors see, in order to manipulate rankings or mislead users. - [Core Web Vitals](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/core-web-vitals): Core Web Vitals are three metrics for real-world page experience: Largest Contentful Paint (loading), Interaction to Next Paint (responsiveness) and Cumulative Layout Shift (visual stability). - [Crawling](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/crawling): Crawling is the process where search engine bots (crawlers or spiders) discover and download pages on the web, mostly by following links. - [Dofollow and nofollow links](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/dofollow-nofollow): A dofollow link is simply a normal link. A nofollow link carries rel="nofollow", asking Google not to associate the two pages or pass ranking credit. - [Doorway pages](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/doorway-pages): Doorway pages are sites or pages made to rank for specific, similar searches that funnel visitors to a less useful page, which Google's spam policies call doorway abuse. - [Google Business Profile](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/google-business-profile): Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business) is Google's free listing for local businesses, shown in Google Maps and local search results. - [Google ranking](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/google-ranking): Your Google ranking is the position a page holds in Google's results for a search. Google's ranking systems order pages by relevance, quality, usability and context. - [H1 tag](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/h1-tag): The H1 is the main visible heading of a page. H2 and H3 headings divide the content into sections and subsections. - [Indexing](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/indexing): Indexing is when a search engine analyzes a crawled page and stores it in its index, the database it draws search results from. - [International SEO](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/international-seo): International SEO is setting up a multilingual or multi-country website so search engines show each visitor the right language and regional version. - [JavaScript SEO](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/javascript-seo): JavaScript SEO is making sure content and links that depend on JavaScript can be found, rendered and indexed by search engines and AI crawlers. - [Keyword research](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/keyword-research): Keyword research is finding the words and questions people type into search engines when they look for what you offer, and deciding which page should target each. - [Landing page optimization](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/landing-page-optimization): Landing page optimization means improving the page a visitor arrives on, whether from search, ads or email, so it matches their intent and leads them to act. - [Lighthouse SEO score](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/lighthouse-seo): Lighthouse is Google's open-source page auditing tool. Its SEO category runs a short list of basic checks and gives a 0 to 100 score. - [Link building](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/link-building): Link building is the work of getting other websites to link to yours, ideally because your pages are worth citing. - [Long-tail keywords](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/long-tail-keywords): Long-tail keywords are longer, more specific search phrases, such as "emergency plumber open sunday kothrud", that each get few searches but show clear intent. - [LSI keywords](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/lsi-keywords): "LSI keywords" is an SEO term for related words to add to a page. It borrows the name of latent semantic indexing, a 1980s technique Google doesn't document using. - [Meta tags](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/meta-tags): Meta tags are snippets of HTML in a page's head that describe the page to browsers and search engines, such as the meta description and robots tag. - [Mobile SEO](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/mobile-seo): Mobile SEO is making sure your site works well on phones, because Google mainly crawls and indexes the mobile version of pages (mobile-first indexing). - [NAP](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/nap): NAP stands for name, address and phone number: the core business details that should be identical on your website, Google Business Profile and directory listings. - [Off-page SEO](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/off-page-seo): Off-page SEO covers actions outside your own website that affect how search engines see it, mainly links, brand mentions, reviews and profiles. - [On-page SEO](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/on-page-seo): On-page SEO is everything you optimize on the page itself: content, title, headings, links, images and HTML, so search engines and readers understand it. - [On-page vs off-page SEO](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/on-page-vs-off-page-seo): On-page SEO is what you optimize on your own pages; off-page SEO is what happens on other sites, such as links, mentions and reviews. - [Organic search](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/organic-search): Organic search results are the unpaid listings a search engine ranks by relevance and usefulness, as opposed to paid ads. - [PageRank](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/pagerank): PageRank is the link analysis system Google launched with: it estimates a page's importance from the number and importance of pages linking to it. - [Parasite SEO](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/parasite-seo): Parasite SEO is publishing content on a powerful third-party website so it ranks on that site's reputation. Google's spam policies call this site reputation abuse. - [Programmatic SEO](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/programmatic-seo): Programmatic SEO is publishing many pages generated from a database and a template, each targeting a specific search, such as one page per city or product. - [Rich results](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/rich-results): Rich results are Google search results with extra visual features, such as review stars, prices or event dates, usually powered by structured data on the page. - [SEM (search engine marketing)](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/sem): SEM, or search engine marketing, usually means buying ads on search engines such as Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising; sometimes it's used for all search marketing. - [SEO copywriting](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/seo-copywriting): SEO copywriting is writing web content that's useful to readers, uses the words they search with, and is structured so search engines and AI systems understand it. - [SEO meaning](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/seo-meaning): SEO stands for search engine optimization: improving a website so search engines can find, understand and show its pages for relevant searches. - [SEO reputation management](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/seo-reputation-management): SEO reputation management (or search engine reputation management) is improving what appears when people search for your name or brand, usually by strengthening accurate, positive pages. - [SERP](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/serp): SERP stands for search engine results page: the page a search engine shows in response to a query, with organic results, ads and other features. - [Social signals](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/social-signals): Social signals are engagement on social media, such as likes, shares and comments. Google hasn't documented them as a ranking signal, but social activity can help SEO indirectly. - [Technical SEO](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/technical-seo): Technical SEO is making sure search engines can crawl, render and index your pages, and index the right version of each one. - [Title tag](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/title-tag): The title tag is the HTML element that names a page. Google usually uses it as the clickable headline in search results. - [Toxic backlinks](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/toxic-backlinks): "Toxic backlinks" is an industry term for spammy or manipulative links pointing at your site, usually from link schemes, paid link packages or automated tools. - [Voice search SEO](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/voice-search-seo): Voice search optimization means making your content easy for voice assistants such as Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa to find and read aloud as an answer. - [Website optimization](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/website-optimization): Website optimization is improving a site's speed, structure, content and technical setup so it serves visitors well and search engines can crawl and understand it. - [YMYL](https://seoaeogeo.app/seo-glossary/ymyl): YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) is Google's term for topics that could significantly affect people's health, financial stability, safety or society.