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AI visibility
What is AI visibility?
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In practice
Why it matters for AI visibility
Visibility in AI answers behaves differently from search visibility. There is no fixed results page to audit: answers vary by phrasing, session and engine, and each engine draws on its own mix of training data, live search and preferred sources. That makes visibility feel unknowable, and most businesses simply never check. But it is measurable: ask a consistent panel of buyer questions, on a schedule, across the engines that matter, and record who gets named. Once measured, it becomes improvable, because the engines' habits are consistent enough to work against: they lean on particular directories, review sites, forums and articles, and those sources can be won. Few businesses measure this yet, so the answer space is still lightly contested.
Measurement
How AEOscore measures this
AEOscore tracks your AI visibility weekly across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and turns it into a score you can watch move.
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