AEO Audit - Take Control of Your Brand’s Narrative in the Age of AI Search
Traditional SEO is no longer enough. Our AEO AI Visibility Audit reveals how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini interpret your brand and provides the technical roadmap to dominate the "Zero-Click Funnel."
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Why AEO AI Visibility Matters
Beyond the Click: Why Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the New SEO.
In 2026, your customers aren’t just clicking links; they’re asking AI for recommendations. When a prospect asks ChatGPT, “What is the best [Your Service] in [Your City]?”, does your brand appear at the top, or is it hallucinated out of existence?
AEO is the process of optimizing your digital footprint so that Large Language Models (LLMs) can discover, verify, and recommend your business. While SEO drives traffic to your site, AEO ensures your brand is the “Chosen Answer” in AI-synthesized results.
What’s Included in the Vertical’s AEO AI Visbility Audit?
A Comprehensive Deep-Dive into Your AI Visibility.
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The Engineering Differentiator
Why Vertical? Because AI Search is a Technical Challenge.
Most agencies treat AEO like content writing. We treat it like engineering. Our team of senior WordPress & AI engineers specializes in building “Answer-First” architectures. We optimize your site’s data richness and semantic clarity, ensuring that LLMs can crawl and synthesize your information with 100% accuracy.
Frequently Asked Questions
An AEO AI Visbility Audit is a technical and content-based assessment of how your brand appears in AI-generated search results (like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google Gemini). It identifies visibility gaps, sentiment issues, and citation errors that prevent AI engines from recommending your brand to users.
SEO focuses on ranking pages in a list of links to drive clicks. AEO focuses on providing the “source of truth” for AI engines to synthesize into a single answer. While SEO measures traffic, AEO measures “Mention Frequency” and “Recommendation Probability.”
With the rise of the “Zero-Click Funnel,” more users are getting answers directly from AI interfaces without ever visiting a website. If your brand isn’t optimized for these engines, you lose the customer before they even see your URL.
Yes. WordPress is uniquely suited for AEO through the use of advanced Schema.org markup, semantic HTML, and high-performance API integrations. Vertical specializes in retrofitting WordPress sites to be the primary data source for leading LLMs or migrating your current site to a WordPress CMS solution.
Our audit currently covers the “Big Three”: OpenAI’s ChatGPT (GPT-5.2), Perplexity AI, and Google Gemini, as well as emerging open-source models that power niche search tools.