AI SEO FAQ

AI visibility is the degree to which your website or brand is discoverable, understood, and cited by AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. It's similar to traditional SEO but focuses on how AI systems interpret and recommend your content rather than just ranking in search results.

Traditional SEO focuses on ranking for keywords in search engines like Google. AI visibility focuses on being cited and recommended by AI assistants and AI-powered search engines. This requires structured data, clear expertise signals, direct answers to questions, and content that AI systems can easily parse and understand.

As more users turn to AI assistants for information, product recommendations, and research, being invisible to AI means losing potential customers. High AI visibility ensures your brand is mentioned in AI-generated responses, recommended to users, and positioned as an authoritative source in your industry.

The key AI systems include ChatGPT (with web search), Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Bing Copilot. Each has its own crawler and methods for retrieving web content. Teoraspace helps ensure your website is optimized for all major AI platforms.

Initial improvements can be seen within 2-4 weeks as AI crawlers re-index your site. However, building strong citation authority and consistent AI visibility is an ongoing process that typically shows significant results within 3-6 months.

Yes! Teoraspace provides tracking for AI citations, mentions in AI-generated responses, and monitoring of how AI systems represent your brand. We track your presence across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI platforms.

Not necessarily replace it, but you'll want to enhance it. This includes adding structured data, creating FAQ sections, improving content clarity, adding explicit definitions, and ensuring your content directly answers common questions in your industry.

AI crawlers (like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) scan your website to understand its content for AI training and retrieval. Allowing these crawlers and optimizing your content for them ensures AI systems have accurate, up-to-date information about your business.

LLM optimization is the practice of structuring your content and website so that large language models (LLMs) can easily understand, interpret, and cite your information. This involves using clear headings, providing explicit definitions, creating FAQ-style content, and implementing structured data.

LLMs read and comprehend content semantically, understanding context and relationships between concepts. Unlike traditional search engines that match keywords, LLMs interpret meaning, extract facts, and generate citations based on content quality and structure rather than just keyword density.

Citation authority measures how frequently and reliably AI systems cite your content when generating responses. It's the AI-era equivalent of domain authority. High citation authority means AI systems trust and reference your content as a reliable source.

Build citation authority by consistently publishing accurate, well-researched content with clear sources, implementing structured data, creating comprehensive FAQ sections, demonstrating expertise (E-E-A-T), and ensuring your content provides direct, verifiable answers.

LLMs favor well-structured content including: FAQ sections, how-to guides with clear steps, definition lists, comparison tables, case studies with concrete metrics, and content with clear headings and subheadings. Direct, factual answers perform best.

No. Good content for LLMs is also good for humans. Focus on clarity, accuracy, and structure. Use natural language, provide clear definitions, answer questions directly, and organize content logically. LLM optimization enhances rather than replaces human-friendly writing.

Structured data (like JSON-LD schema markup) provides explicit information about your content in a machine-readable format. It helps LLMs understand context, relationships, and meaning. Common schemas include Organization, Article, FAQ, HowTo, and Product.

Test by asking AI systems about your topic and seeing if they cite you. Teoraspace provides comprehensive audits checking content structure, schema implementation, FAQ coverage, heading hierarchy, and citation tracking across major AI platforms.

Yes, allowing AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, etc.) is essential for AI visibility. You can control access via robots.txt. Blocking AI crawlers means AI systems won't have current information about your business and can't cite your content.

Structured data is typically implemented using JSON-LD format in your page's HTML. Common schemas include Organization (homepage), Article (blog posts), FAQPage (FAQ content), and HowTo (guides). Teoraspace can help implement these schemas correctly.

No. AI optimization practices (clear content structure, schema markup, FAQ sections, quality content) align with Google's best practices. In fact, many AI optimization techniques also improve traditional SEO performance.

Semantic HTML uses tags that convey meaning (like <article>, <nav>, <section>, <header>) rather than just presentation. This helps both search engines and AI systems understand the structure and purpose of your content, improving interpretation accuracy.

AI systems value freshness and accuracy. Update core content quarterly, add new blog posts regularly (2-4x per month recommended), and refresh stats and examples annually. Set up monitoring to catch outdated information that could harm citation authority.

Yes. Your XML sitemap helps all crawlers (traditional search engines and AI crawlers) discover your pages. Ensure your sitemap is up-to-date, properly formatted, and submitted to search engines. AI crawlers will also use it.

E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) is Google's content quality framework, but it's also crucial for AI citation authority. AI systems favor content from sources that demonstrate clear expertise, credentials, and reliability.

Indirectly, yes. While AI crawlers can access slow sites, poor performance may reduce crawl frequency. More importantly, technical issues can indicate lower quality to AI systems. Fast, well-maintained sites tend to have higher citation authority.

No. Instead, enhance your existing pages with AI-friendly elements (structured data, FAQs, clear definitions). The goal is to make all your content accessible and understandable to both humans and AI systems.

Use canonical tags to indicate the preferred version of duplicate content. AI systems generally respect canonical signals. Avoid creating multiple pages with the same information; instead, consolidate and use internal linking to guide users and AI to the authoritative version.

Teoraspace provides comprehensive AI visibility audits, identifying gaps in your current strategy. We analyze your content structure, schema implementation, AI crawler access, citation opportunities, and provide actionable recommendations to improve how AI systems discover and cite your content.

Our audit includes: AI crawler accessibility check, structured data analysis, content quality assessment, citation tracking across AI platforms, E-E-A-T evaluation, technical SEO review, competitor analysis, and a detailed roadmap with prioritized recommendations.

Contact us for custom pricing based on your needs. We offer packages for small businesses, agencies managing multiple clients, and enterprise organizations. All plans include comprehensive audits and actionable recommendations.

Yes. We offer audit-only services and full-service implementation. Our team can handle technical implementation, content optimization, schema markup, and ongoing monitoring to ensure your AI visibility continues to improve.

AI visibility benefits virtually all industries, especially B2B SaaS, professional services, e-commerce, healthcare, fintech, legal tech, and any business where potential customers research online before purchasing. We have specific expertise across multiple industries.

We track: citation frequency across AI platforms, brand mentions in AI responses, accuracy of AI-generated information about your business, presence in AI recommendations, and overall visibility score. You'll receive regular reports showing progress.

Yes. AI visibility requires continuous optimization as AI systems evolve. We offer monthly retainer packages including ongoing monitoring, content optimization, technical updates, and quarterly strategy reviews.

Most projects begin within 1-2 weeks of initial contact. The process: discovery call (30 min) → audit proposal → contract → audit kickoff (1 week) → initial findings (2-3 weeks) → full report and roadmap.