Citation Rocket – Free AEO & AI Readiness Checker

Check any website's AI visibility score across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini & Claude. Free AEO audit in your browser.

🚀 Citation Rocket — Free AEO & AI Visibility Checker for Any Page Your customers have stopped Googling. They're asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude — "What's the best tool for X?" — and those AI assistants are quietly recommending someone. If it's not you, you're losing deals you never even knew existed. Citation Rocket's free Chrome Extension tells you, in seconds, whether any page you're viewing is set up to be recommended by AI — and exactly why it isn't. No login. No account. No credit card. Just install, click, and know. ──────────────────────────────────── 🔍 WHAT IT DOES ──────────────────────────────────── Open any webpage — your own site, a competitor's, a client's landing page — and click the Citation Rocket icon. In seconds, you get a live AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) audit of that exact page. The extension scores five things that AI assistants use to decide who to recommend: ✅ Answer Capsule How well does this page directly answer a clear question? AI assistants prioritize pages that answer specific questions cleanly — not pages that bury the answer in marketing copy. Citation Rocket checks whether the page has a clear, direct answer structure that AI can extract and recommend. ✅ Schema Markup Does this page have the structured data that AI crawlers understand? Citation Rocket detects and evaluates schema markup types present on the page — Organization, FAQ, HowTo, Article, BreadcrumbList — and flags what's missing. Schema is how you tell AI engines exactly who you are, what you do, and why you're trustworthy. ✅ Freshness Is this content recent enough for AI to trust it? AI assistants increasingly factor in content recency when deciding what to recommend. Stale pages with outdated dates, old copyright footers, and no recent publishing signals score lower. Citation Rocket checks freshness indicators and tells you what to update. ✅ Fan-Out Does this page link out to supporting content and connect to a wider topic web? AI engines trust pages that are part of a broader, well-linked content ecosystem — not isolated pages. Fan-Out checks internal linking structure and topic coverage depth: does the page connect to related content that deepens the topic? ✅ Bot Access Are you accidentally blocking the AI crawlers that decide whether to recommend you? Citation Rocket checks whether AI bots like OAI-SearchBot are blocked by your robots.txt, whether you have an llms.txt file (the new standard that tells AI how to read your site), and whether your domain has a Reddit presence — a signal AI increasingly uses as a trust indicator. ──────────────────────────────────── 💡 WHO IT'S FOR ──────────────────────────────────── 👉 B2B Marketers & Growth Teams You spend hours optimizing for Google. But your buyers are now asking ChatGPT before they ever search. Citation Rocket shows you — on any page, instantly — whether you're set up to be the answer AI gives. 👉 SEO & AEO Consultants Run a quick AEO audit on any client page in under 10 seconds. Show clients, in real time, exactly what AI would find on their page and what's missing. It's the fastest way to open an AEO conversation with a new prospect. 👉 SaaS Founders Check your competitors' pages while you browse. See exactly what their schema looks like, whether they have llms.txt, and how their content is structured for AI — without leaving the page you're on. 👉 Agencies Run AEO spot-checks on client pages during calls. No need to open another tab, log in, or wait for a report. Get instant, shareable insights right in the browser. 👉 Content Writers & Strategists Before you publish, run the extension on your draft page to see if it's structured in a way AI will recognize. Catch missing schema, weak answer structure, or bot-blocking issues before they cost you citations. ──────────────────────────────────── ⚡ WHY IT'S DIFFERENT FROM SEO EXTENSIONS ──────────────────────────────────── Most SEO Chrome extensions check Google signals — title tags, meta descriptions, keyword density, backlinks. Those still matter for traditional search. Citation Rocket checks AI signals — the five things that determine whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude will recommend a page when someone asks a relevant question. These are fundamentally different optimization targets: ❌ Traditional SEO extension checks: title length, meta keywords, header structure, page speed, backlink count ✅ Citation Rocket checks: answer directness, schema type coverage, content freshness, internal topic depth, AI bot access permissions If you're only optimizing for Google, you're optimizing for yesterday's traffic. Citation Rocket optimizes for the AI recommendations that are happening right now. ──────────────────────────────────── 📋 THE FIVE SCORES — EXPLAINED ──────────────────────────────────── Each page gets a score across five modules. Here's exactly what each one measures: 1️⃣ ANSWER CAPSULE SCORE AI assistants pick up pages that answer questions directly. The Answer Capsule score measures how well the page is structured to deliver a clear, extractable answer — not buried in a 2,000-word blog post, but surfaced clearly near the top. Pages with strong Answer Capsule scores tend to be the ones AI quotes verbatim. What it checks: Does the page start with a direct answer or clear statement of purpose? Is there a summary, TL;DR, or clear conclusion visible on the page? Are answers structured in ways AI can extract (lists, headers, short paragraphs)? 2️⃣ SCHEMA SCORE Structured data (schema markup) is the vocabulary AI uses to understand what a page is about. Without schema, AI has to guess. With schema, you're telling it directly. What it checks: Is there an Organization schema? (Who you are) Is there FAQPage schema? (What questions you answer) Is there HowTo schema? (What processes you explain) Is there Article schema? (Is this editorial content?) Is there BreadcrumbList schema? (How your site is organized) Missing schema types are flagged with specific recommendations. 3️⃣ FRESHNESS SCORE AI assistants weight recency. A page that hasn't been updated in two years is less likely to be recommended than one that was updated this month — especially in fast-moving categories. What it checks: Publication and modification date visibility Copyright year in footer (outdated footers are a freshness red flag) Presence of recent content signals on the page 4️⃣ FAN-OUT SCORE AI engines trust pages that are part of a broader, well-linked content ecosystem. A single isolated page — even a perfectly written one — scores lower than a page that connects to related content, FAQs, case studies, and supporting articles. What it checks: Internal links to related content Topic coverage depth (does this page connect to supporting topics?) Breadth of content ecosystem visible from this page 5️⃣ BOT ACCESS SCORE This is the most commonly overlooked issue. Many sites accidentally block the exact AI crawlers that decide whether to recommend them. Others simply don't have the new files (llms.txt, AGENTS.md) that tell AI systems how to read and trust their content. What it checks: robots.txt — are AI bots like OAI-SearchBot blocked? llms.txt — does the site have this file that tells AI how to process it? Reddit presence — does this domain appear in Reddit discussions? (AI increasingly uses community signals as a trust factor) AI crawler access: is the page accessible to the bots that power AI recommendations? ──────────────────────────────────── 🔒 PRIVACY — WHAT WE COLLECT ──────────────────────────────────── The Citation Rocket extension runs a client-side audit of the page you're currently viewing. It does not: Collect or store your browsing history Read your personal data or credentials Send page content to external servers for the live audit Require a login or account to use The extension performs local checks on the active tab's DOM, robots.txt, and publicly accessible page signals. No personal data is transmitted. ──────────────────────────────────── 🔧 HOW TO USE IT ──────────────────────────────────── Click "Add to Chrome" and pin the extension to your toolbar Navigate to any public webpage you want to audit Click the Citation Rocket rocket icon in your toolbar Your five scores appear instantly — Answer Capsule, Schema, Freshness, Fan-Out, Bot Access Review the specific findings under each score to see exactly what's missing For a full AI Readiness Audit (0–100 score, live Citation Snapshot showing who AI actually recommends, Fix-It Playbook with templates, and AEO Pack ZIP download), visit citationrocket.co — the full audit is free, no credit card required ──────────────────────────────────── 📦 THE FULL CITATION ROCKET PLATFORM (FREE TO TRY) ──────────────────────────────────── The Chrome Extension is one part of Citation Rocket. The full platform (at citationrocket.co) goes deeper: 🎯 AI Readiness Score — A full 0–100 score across 4 content signal categories: Content Depth, Structure, Research, and Authority. With letter grade A–F. 🔍 Per-Platform Scores — Separate scores for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. Each AI platform weights signals differently — Perplexity values research citations most, Claude values authority and nuanced language, Gemini weights structure highest. 💬 Citation Snapshot — We send up to 12 real prompts (the questions your customers actually ask) to live AI engines via the Perplexity Sonar API. You see your mention rate, the exact prompts tested, and the competitor names that showed up instead of you. Not simulated. Live. 📦 AEO Pack ZIP — A downloadable ZIP of 11 files: llms.txt, llms-full.txt, AGENTS.md, a robots.txt patch, five schema files (Organization, FAQPage, HowTo, Article, BreadcrumbList), a clean markdown copy of your homepage, and installation instructions. Upload to your server in 10 minutes. Pro plan and above. 📋 Fix-It Playbook — A prioritized 12-month action plan with content templates and code snippets. Not vague advice. Specific steps. The full platform is free to start — one audit per month, no credit card required. ──────────────────────────────────── ⚠️ HONEST LIMITATIONS ──────────────────────────────────── The Chrome Extension is a client-side tool. It checks what it can see in the browser: It does not send live AI prompts (that's the full platform's Citation Snapshot feature) It does not give you a full 0–100 AI Readiness Score (that's the full audit) It works on public pages — it cannot audit pages behind login walls robots.txt and llms.txt checks make a background request to the same domain — these are the only external checks the extension performs Reddit presence is checked via a standard web availability check — not an exhaustive scrape Think of the extension as the fastest way to spot AEO issues on any page you're browsing. The full platform is where you go for the complete audit, the Citation Snapshot, and the fix files. ──────────────────────────────────── ❓ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ──────────────────────────────────── 📌 Do I need to create an account to use the extension? No. The extension works without any account or login. Open a page, click the icon, see your scores. No signup, no email address required. 📌 Is it really free? Yes. The Chrome Extension is completely free. No subscription required. No credit card. No "free trial that expires." 📌 What's the difference between the extension and the full platform? The extension gives you a fast, 5-module spot-check of any page you're viewing: Answer Capsule, Schema, Freshness, Fan-Out, and Bot Access. The full platform at citationrocket.co runs a deep audit including a 0–100 AI Readiness Score, live AI Citation Snapshot (real prompts sent to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude), a 12-month Fix-It Playbook, and a downloadable AEO Pack ZIP file. 📌 Which AI platforms does it check for? The extension checks for bot access signals relevant to ChatGPT (OAI-SearchBot), Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. Schema and content checks are platform-agnostic — good structure helps you with all four. 📌 Can I use it on competitor pages? Yes. You can run the extension on any publicly accessible page — your own site, a competitor's, a client's. This is one of the most useful ways to use it: run it on the top-ranking pages in your category to see exactly how they're structured for AI. 📌 What is llms.txt? llms.txt is an emerging standard (similar to robots.txt) that tells AI systems how to read and process your website. Think of it as a machine-readable guide to your site — your company summary, key pages, product descriptions, and contact information — in a format AI can directly consume. Citation Rocket checks for its presence and, in the full platform, generates it for you as part of the AEO Pack ZIP download. 📌 What is an AI bot (like OAI-SearchBot) and why does it matter? AI companies send web crawlers to index content for their recommendation systems. OAI-SearchBot is OpenAI's crawler. If your robots.txt accidentally blocks it, ChatGPT can't read your content — and can't recommend you. The extension checks for this common mistake automatically. 📌 Does the extension slow down my browser? No. The extension runs only when you click the icon — it does not run in the background on every page you visit. It performs no continuous monitoring and has no background processes.