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title: "Free GEO and AEO scan: check your website before buying tools | GEO Repair"
description: "How to judge answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization tools: what a free scan should diagnose, how the checkup score should read, and what the report should fix."
source: https://geo.repair/blog/tool-optimize-aeo-seo-geo-website
last_updated: "June 5, 2026"
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# Free GEO and AEO scan with audit report

> How to judge answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization tools: what a free scan should diagnose, how the checkup score should read, and what the report should fix.

**June 5, 2026** · AEO, GEO, Tools · By GEO Repair

If you are searching for a free AEO scan, free GEO scan, or a tool that optimizes AEO, SEO, and GEO for your website, the useful answer is yes, but only if the tool can change the website. A score alone leaves the hard part untouched.

AEO, SEO, and GEO overlap more than most vendors admit. Google's own generative AI search guide says AEO and GEO are still SEO from Google's perspective, because AI features depend on search systems, crawlability, quality, and useful content. The practical gap is not the acronym. The gap is whether the tool turns a diagnosis into a real website fix.

If you are comparing options, start with our [free GEO tools hub](/free-geo-tools). It breaks the scan into crawler, HTML, metadata, schema, crawl-file, and answerability checks before you pay for monitoring software.

## What should a free AEO and GEO scan check?

A useful tool should check the parts of your site that AI search systems can actually read:

- Raw HTML visibility for your main content
- Crawl access in `robots.txt`, CDN settings, and hosting rules
- XML sitemap coverage
- Accurate titles, descriptions, canonicals, Open Graph, and Twitter metadata
- Structured data that matches visible page content
- One clear `h1` and a logical heading structure
- Answer-first sections that define the topic directly
- Internal links that help crawlers find important pages
- Markdown twins or plain-text copies where they help non-rendering systems

That work is not magic. It is technical website hygiene applied to the way AI crawlers, answer engines, and search engines fetch and reuse pages.

## What does "just optimize it" usually mean?

Most people do not want another dashboard. They want the website fixed.

That means the tool should answer three questions:

1. **What is broken?** The page is blocked, thin, client-rendered, missing metadata, missing schema, or hard to extract.
2. **Where is it broken?** The exact route, file, component, sitemap entry, or crawl rule.
3. **What changed?** A reviewed code change, content change, or configuration change that removes the blocker.

If the output stops at "your AI visibility score is low," you still have the hard part left.

## Can one tool cover AEO, SEO, and GEO?

Yes, if it treats them as overlapping layers:

- **SEO** makes pages crawlable, indexable, useful, and eligible to rank in search.
- **AEO** makes pages answer questions directly and clearly.
- **GEO** makes pages easier for generative AI systems to retrieve, parse, and cite when they choose supporting sources.

The same technical issues often hurt all three. A client-only pricing page is bad for SEO because crawlers may not see the pricing content. It is bad for AEO because the answer is not available as text. It is bad for GEO because a model cannot confidently extract facts from content it cannot fetch.

## What should you avoid?

Avoid tools that sell AI search as a trick:

- "Guaranteed ChatGPT citations"
- "One-click ranking in AI Overviews"
- "Secret schema for GEO"
- "Thousands of AI-written pages"
- "Mentions" with no evidence that they are authentic or useful

Google says there is no special schema required for generative AI search. Foundational SEO, useful content, crawlability, technical clarity, and page structure still matter. That is the sane place to start.

## What should the tool actually do?

The best version is a closed loop:

1. Crawl the site.
2. Score the important routes.
3. Show evidence for each issue.
4. Apply the fix in the codebase or content source.
5. Open a pull request for review.
6. Re-check the route after the change.

That is the difference between a monitoring product and a fixing product.

## Where GEO Repair fits

GEO Repair is built for the fixing path. It runs a free AEO and GEO scan as part of its AI search readiness checkup, identifies the technical blockers, and then opens a pull request that fixes the parts of your site that are holding it back.

It does not guarantee citations, rankings, or traffic. No serious tool can. It focuses on the part you can control: making your website crawlable, structured, answerable, and easier for AI systems to understand.

## Sources

- [Google's guide to optimizing for generative AI features on Google Search](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/ai-optimization-guide)
- [AI features and your website, Google Search Central](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features)

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