AEO Tracker

Rank in the answers, not just the links.

SEOTracker's AEO Monitor tells you — daily — whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews are citing your brand for the prompts your customers actually type. Not vague mentions. Verifiable citations, with the source URL.

No login · one prompt across four AI engines · results in under 60 seconds

What's actually broken about "AI visibility" tools today

Most AI-visibility tools count any time your brand name appears in a model response. That's a vanity metric. Being mentioned in passing inside a 400-word answer that cites a competitor as the source doesn't drive traffic, leads, or revenue. What matters is whether the model linked to you as the authoritative answer — because that's where the click (when there is one) goes, and that's the answer the user remembers.

SEOTracker's AEO Monitor was built around one rule: a citation is a URL the model surfaces as the source of its answer. Mentions are interesting; citations are measurable.

How AEO tracking works in SEOTracker

1 · You define the prompts that matter

Add the buying-intent prompts your customers actually type: "best CRM for SaaS startups", "compare Shopify Plus vs BigCommerce", "what is the best way to track AEO". You can add up to your plan's limit, organised by workspace.

2 · We run them daily across four engines

Each prompt is sent to ChatGPT (web search), Claude (web search), Perplexity, and a Google AI Overview probe. Responses are captured with timestamps and the cited URLs are extracted.

3 · You get a per-engine citation score

For each prompt, SEOTracker reports: whether you were cited, which URL was cited, whether competitors were cited (and which), and how the share-of-citation shifted day-over-day.

4 · You can drill into "why"

Each citation is paired with the on-page passage that the model surfaced — so you can see what worked, replicate it elsewhere, and (if you weren't cited) compare your page against the one that was.

Who needs an AEO tracker

• Brands competing in considered-purchase categories where buyers ask AI for comparisons before clicking through to vendor sites.
• Content marketing teams trying to understand which long-tail topics actually surface their work inside AI answers.
• Founders who want one data point that tells them whether their product is becoming the default answer to a category-defining question.
• Agencies that need to show clients AEO results alongside traditional rank reports.

What separates SEOTracker AEO Monitor

• Citation-level, not mention-level. Every data point ties back to a specific URL the model linked to.
• Four engines, one workspace. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — compared side by side, not in separate tools.
• Combined with classic SEO data. The same workspace runs your site audit and Google rank tracker, so AEO findings sit next to the technical issues that may be blocking citation.
• Honest about limits. AI models change. We tell you when an engine's behaviour shifts and version-stamp every result so historical data stays comparable.

FAQ

What is AEO?

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the practice of optimising content so AI-powered answer engines cite it as the source. Where SEO targets the ten blue links, AEO targets the synthesised answer that increasingly appears above them.

How is an AEO tracker different from a brand mention tool?

A mention tool flags any reference to your brand. An AEO tracker tests the same prompts on a schedule and tells you whether the model linked to you as the source — with the URL and the surrounding text — versus merely mentioning you.

Which engines does SEOTracker monitor?

ChatGPT (with web search), Claude (with web search), Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Bing Copilot is on the roadmap.

How often is AEO data refreshed?

Prompts are re-run daily. Paid plans can trigger on-demand checks for individual prompts.

Can I track competitors' AEO presence too?

Yes. Add competitor brand names to any prompt and SEOTracker reports the share-of-citation across all monitored engines.