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One HTTP call. Eight factors AI engines actually weight. Get a 0–100 score, structural metrics, and concrete fixes — so your content shows up in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
curl https://api.geoscoreapi.com·JSON in, JSON out·50 free / monthPaste content and hit Analyze to see your GEO score.
Who stops doing this manually?
If you've ever opened 8 tabs to manually audit a piece of content for AI search — this section is for you.
You've published hundreds of posts. ChatGPT has never cited a single one.
You check Perplexity. Someone asks exactly what your article answers. It cites a competitor's mediocre page instead of yours. You don't know why — and there's been no tool that tells you why. Until now.
Open 8 tabs. Manually check for a Quick Answer box, FAQ section, sources, data tables... for every post. Every. Single. One.
One API call. 200ms. Here's your score. Here's what's missing. Here's what to fix first.
Your next post gets cited. Not your competitor's.
Your clients are asking for GEO audits. You're delivering them with a Google Doc checklist.
That's not a scalable service — that's a billable hour with a ceiling. The agencies that win GEO as a service line are the ones who automate the scoring and productize the delivery. The ones still doing it by hand are already falling behind.
One analyst. One URL at a time. 2–3 hours per audit. Barely profitable at any price.
Script it. Score 50 URLs overnight. Deliver a structured JSON report. Charge the same. Keep 10× the margin.
GEO audits become a product line, not a time sink.
GEO scoring isn't your core product. Stop building it from scratch.
You're building a writing assistant, a CMS plugin, or a content intelligence platform. Your users want GEO scoring. You've scoped it at 4–6 weeks: research the factors, build the scorer, maintain it as AI engines evolve. That's 4–6 weeks you're not shipping your actual product.
Deep research into how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AIO evaluate content. Build. Test. Maintain. Repeat every time the models change.
One dependency. One API key. One afternoon. Done.
Ship GEO scoring in your product this week, not next quarter.
Your clinically accurate content is losing to clickbait in AI search. That's not just a traffic problem.
A patient asks ChatGPT about their medication. AI cites a 5-year-old post with a Quick Answer box at the top. Your page — written by an actual clinician — has the right answer but fails structurally. The wrong source wins. The right source goes invisible. GeoScore was built specifically to fix this.
Publish your clinical content and hope AI engines surface it correctly. They don't. No feedback loop. No way to know why.
Score your content before it publishes. See exactly which structural elements are missing. Fix them. Let AI cite the accurate source.
Accurate content wins citations. Not somebody's SEO-optimized guess.
Someone just asked ChatGPT how to do something your product does best. It cited your competitor.
Your documentation is thorough. But it wasn't written with AI citation structure in mind. Your competitor's thinner, worse docs have a Quick Answer box at the top of every page. That one structural difference is why they're getting cited. Why their free trial signups are climbing. And why yours are flat.
You don't know this is happening. There's no dashboard for 'which docs pages are invisible to AI.' You find out months later when a competitor shows up in AI answers and yours doesn't.
Run your docs URLs through the API. Get a score per page. See exactly what's missing. Fix the highest-value gaps first.
Turn your documentation into a distribution channel that runs 24/7.
Every piece of content that ships without a GEO check is a missed citation. You're shipping blind.
Your editorial calendar moves fast. Content goes live every week. Nobody checks if each piece is structured for AI engines before it publishes — because there's been no fast, automated way to do that. Now there is.
Find out months later that a post is getting search traffic but zero AI citations. Go back. Retrofit the structure. Hope it re-ranks. Repeat forever.
Add GeoScore to your publishing workflow. Run it as a pre-publish check, a GitHub Action, or a CMS hook. Set a minimum score threshold. Ship only what's citation-ready.
Every piece that goes live is optimized from day one. No retrofitting. No missed windows.
Which eight factors determine your GEO score?
No black box, no ML voodoo. The score is a weighted sum of structural checks LLMs reward. Hit them all, you score 100.
A concise 50–80 word summary AI engines pull verbatim.
Question-format headings matching real user queries.
Named, authoritative organizations cited inline.
Structured comparisons heavily favored by generative search.
≥50% of headings phrased as questions.
Flesch-Kincaid grade 8–12, the authority sweet spot.
≥900 words to compete for AI-summarized answers.
Numbered or bulleted lists for clean extraction.
Point allocation across all 8 GEO scoring factors (total: 100 pts)
No ML weighting — fixed, transparent point values. Hit all 8 checks → score 100.
See the difference
Same topic. Optimized structure. 57-point score jump.
Unstructured content
Tips for Better Content
Writing good content is important. You should use keywords and make sure people can read it. Good content helps your website.
GEO-structured content
How to Write Content That Gets Cited by AI
Quick Answer: AI engines cite content with Quick Answer boxes (50–80 words), FAQ sections, and cited sources. Add these three elements to improve your GEO score by 55+ points.
How does the GeoScore API work?
Send raw text, markdown, HTML, or a URL. Get back a score, eight structural booleans, reading-grade metrics, and a ranked list of fixes.
/api/analyze/api/keys/usage/healthcurl -X POST https://api.geoscoreapi.com/api/analyze \
-H "X-GeoScore-Key: $KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://yourblog.com/post"}'{
"geo_score": 75,
"word_count": 1240,
"reading_grade_level": 9.1,
"has_quick_answer": true,
"has_faq_section": false,
"has_data_tables": true,
"has_sources_section": true,
"question_headings_pct": 62.5,
"fixes": [
"Add a FAQ section with 3–5 questions"
]
}How does GeoScore compare?
The only tool built specifically for AI citation — not Google PageRank.
| Feature | GeoScore API | Clearscope | Surfer SEO | Semrush |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEO / AI citation scoring | ✅ Core feature | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Traditional SEO scoring | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| API access | ✅ Full REST API | ❌ App only | ❌ App only | ✅ Limited |
| Pricing starts at | $0 free tier | $189/mo | $89/mo | $119/mo |
| Bulk analysis | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Transparent scoring | ✅ Weighted sum | ❌ Black box | ❌ Black box | ❌ Black box |
GeoScore is the only tool built specifically for AI citation optimization. Traditional SEO tools optimize for Google PageRank — a fundamentally different signal.
Frequently asked questions about GEO optimization
Everything developers and content teams need to know about GEO scoring and AI citation optimization.
- What is GEO score and how is it calculated?
- GeoScore measures how likely your content is to be cited by AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. It scores 0–100 based on eight structural factors: Quick Answer box (20 pts), FAQ section (20 pts), cited sources (15 pts), data tables (10 pts), question headings (10 pts), reading grade 8–12 (10 pts), 900+ word count (10 pts), and lists (5 pts). No ML — it's a transparent weighted sum.
- Why do AI engines favor structured content?
- AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity parse web content to synthesize answers. They prefer content with explicit answer boxes (Quick Answer), FAQ-style headings that match user queries, cited sources from named organizations, and data tables for direct extraction. Unstructured prose — even high-quality prose — is harder to extract and cite verbatim. Structured content gives AI engines clean, quotable chunks.
- How is GeoScore different from traditional SEO tools like Clearscope?
- Traditional SEO tools optimize for Google's ranking algorithm — keyword density, backlinks, domain authority. GeoScore optimizes for AI citation — the structural patterns that make content quotable by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Copilot. Clearscope is $189/month and app-only. GeoScore is an API starting free, built for developers who want to embed GEO scoring into their own tools and workflows.
- What content score should I aim for to get cited by AI?
- Based on our analysis, content scoring 75+ sees meaningful improvement in AI citation rates. Content scoring 90+ consistently appears in Perplexity and ChatGPT summaries. The fastest wins come from adding a Quick Answer box (50–80 words at the top) and an FAQ section — together those are worth 40 points. Most content scoring below 50 is missing both.
- Can I use GeoScore API to bulk-analyze my entire content library?
- Yes. Send a POST request to /api/analyze with a URL or raw text payload. The Agency tier (10,000 requests/month at $79) supports bulk analysis pipelines. Many teams run GeoScore as a pre-publish check in their CMS or as a nightly audit across their full content library. The JSON response includes geo_score, all 8 factor booleans, and a ranked fixes list.
Which plan fits your workflow?
No seats, no per-team nonsense. Pay for the requests you need. Cancel anytime.
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