> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.weelkit.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# AEO & GEO

> See whether AI assistants find, mention and cite you when people ask them questions, which pages they use, and how each article does.

**AEO & GEO** (answer engine and generative engine optimization) shows how AI assistants answer the questions your audience asks. Open it from **Metrics → AEO & GEO** in the sidebar. Its pages are **Overview**, **Prompts**, **Mentions**, **Visibility**, **Articles** and **Sources**.

Weelkit asks AI assistants the prompts you monitor, on a schedule, and checks every answer. To add and manage prompts, see [Prompts](https://docs.weelkit.com/metrics/aeo-prompts.md). See [How metrics work](https://docs.weelkit.com/metrics/how-metrics-work.md) for who can see AEO & GEO and the period and other controls.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Weelkit can only recognize you once it knows your name and website. An admin or managing editor sets them in [Organization settings → AI visibility](https://docs.weelkit.com/settings/organization.md#ai-visibility). Until then, the Overview shows **Tell Weelkit who to look for**.

## Visible, Mentioned and Cited

Each answer gets three separate yes-or-no results:

| Result | Yes when |
| - | - |
| **Visible** | Your site shows up in what the assistant searched: a page of yours that the assistant retrieved or cited, or a page in the top 10 search results for the prompt. |
| **Mentioned** | The answer names your organization, your brand or one of your aliases, as whole words. For a prompt tied to an article, naming the article by its exact title also counts. |
| **Cited** | The answer links one of your pages, on one of your owned domains. For a prompt tied to an article, it must link that exact article. |

Weelkit works these out from the answer itself. Only the answer's text counts for **Mentioned**, and only the links the answer cites count for **Cited**: pages the assistant only read along the way don't count. Competitors never count as you.

For **Provider API** checks, **Cited** uses the assistant's citation references. A link written in the answer text alone does not count. **Retrieved** means the assistant's search tool returned the page as a source; it counts as **Cited** only if the assistant also cites it. For an article check, a citation whose final address cannot be resolved does not count as a link to that exact article.

Each result has a rate: **Visibility rate**, **Mention rate** and **Citation rate**, the share of answers checked in the period. There is no combined score.

* Answers from assistants' APIs, from their apps, and the ones you add by hand all count.
* An assistant that couldn't be asked shows **Skipped**. Skipped checks, and partial answers, never count.
* An empty answer is a failed check, not a **Not mentioned** result, and never counts toward a rate.
* When no answer was checked in the period, a rate shows **—**.

## Overview

* **Strip:** **Visibility rate**, **Mention rate**, **Citation rate**, **Answers checked**, **Prompts monitored** and **Assistants**. Choose one to see its trend.
* **Assistants:** the selected rate for each assistant.
* **Best prompts** | **Worst prompts**: how many of the three results each prompt got at its latest check, for example "2 of 3".
* **Articles cited:** your articles that answers cite most.
* **Top websites** | **Citation share**: the websites answers cite most, yours included, and your share of the citations.
* **Alerts:** shown only when something changed that needs your attention, such as a drop in visibility or citations.

When checks fall behind, **Monitoring delayed** appears next to **Last synced**. Point at it to see how many prompts are overdue and why.

## Mentions

Every answer Weelkit checked, with its mentions and citations.

* **Strip:** **Mention rate**, **Citation rate**, **Answers checked**, **Assistants**, **Prompts answered** and **Articles cited**.
* **Assistants**, **Prompts** and **Method** (**Provider API**, **App** or **Manual**).
* **Answers:** search by prompt, filter by **Assistant**, **Method** and **Result**, and sort by date. Each answer shows its three results.

The **Assistant** filter lists both API and app choices, such as **ChatGPT (API)** and **ChatGPT (app)**. Choosing an app shows only that app's answers. The choices match the assistants in [Add a prompt](https://docs.weelkit.com/metrics/aeo-prompts.md#add-a-prompt).

Choose **View answer** to read an answer in full. Its page shows:

* **Visible**, **Mentioned** and **Cited** (or **Not visible**, **Not mentioned**, **Not cited**);
* the answer text, and **Where it names you**, with the mentions highlighted;
* **Sources it used**, marked **Your site**, **Cited** or **Retrieved**;
* **The assistant's own searches**, when the assistant shows them.

The evidence available for **Provider API** checks depends on the assistant:

* **ChatGPT** and **Grok** show their search wording and citations, but do not return a separate list of retrieved pages.
* **Gemini** shows how many searches it ran, when available, but does not return the search wording.
* **DeepSeek** and **Kimi** use a search service to retrieve pages. Their searches show **Search engine: Exa via OpenRouter**.
* Other assistants may return searches, retrieved pages and citations, or citations alone. An assistant can also answer without searching.

Weelkit shows only the evidence the assistant returned. Missing searches or retrieved pages do not mean the assistant found no sources.

## Visibility

Where your site ranks in the searches behind AI answers. Weelkit runs each prompt's searches on their own schedule and looks at the top 20 results.

* **Strip:** **Visibility rate**, **Top 3**, **Top 10**, **Top 20**, **Avg best position** and **Prompts searched**.
* **The table:** each prompt with **Your best position**, its **Change**, the **Competitors** that rank and where, and when it was **Checked**. Filter by **Position**, **Change** and **Competitor ahead**, and sort.

Choose **View ranked results** to see every result of each search, with your pages and your competitors' marked. Only the organizations you list as competitors in [AI visibility settings](https://docs.weelkit.com/settings/organization.md#ai-visibility) count as competitors.

## Articles

Your articles in AI answers. Switch between **Published** and **Drafts**.

* **Published:** each article's **Prompts**, **Answers**, how many were **Visible**, **Mentioned** and **Cited**, what's **To fix**, and when it was **Last checked**.
* **Drafts:** each draft's AEO fixes. Drafts aren't monitored until they're published.

Choose **View AI visibility** (or **View AI readiness** for a draft) to open the article's page:

* **AEO readiness:** how many AEO checks the article passes, and its fixes. Choose **Fix in editor** to fix one, or **Dismiss** it from its **⋯** menu. See [To fix](https://docs.weelkit.com/articles/checks-and-publishing.md#to-fix).
* **Suggested prompts:** prompts Weelkit suggests for this article. Choose **Suggest prompts** for new ones, and **Review & monitor** to monitor one for the article.
* **Monitored prompts**, their **Answers**, and the **Sources in its answers**.

On a published article's page, people who can manage prompts also see **Add prompt** on the right of **Monitored prompts**. Use it to [add a prompt linked to this article](https://docs.weelkit.com/metrics/aeo-prompts.md#add-a-prompt-for-an-article).

Use **Open in editor** to edit the article, and **Performance** to see its search and traffic results.

## Sources

The websites and pages that answers cite or read.

* **Strip:** **Links in answers**, **Pages retrieved**, **Websites**, **Links to your websites** and **Answers checked**.
* **The table:** each page with its **Website** (**Yours** or **Third party**), how many answers it's **Cited in** and **Retrieved in**, its **Prompts** and when it was **Last seen**. Filter by website and sort by **Most cited**, **Recently seen** or **Most prompts**.

Choose **View source** to see the page, the prompts that used it, and which assistants cited or retrieved it.


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