Answer Engine Checker

What it costs you when this is wrong

• You rank; the answer names someone else

  Nothing on the page pairs a question with its answer - no FAQPage markup, no heading phrased as the question someone actually typed. You find out the day you search your own term and read the box sitting above your own listing.

• The wrong sentence gets lifted

  With no main landmark, the content an extractor sees includes your nav, cookie banner and footer; skip a heading level and a subsection reads as a sibling of its own parent. When a quote does appear, it is the wrong sentence, or it belongs to the section above.

• Your wording returns, your name does not

  No declared author, no publication or modified date, no machine-readable time element, no sources section - nothing for a passage to be attributed to. Your phrasing comes back inside an answer that links to nobody.

Why run it here

• Eight rules score. The other 92 just report.

  Ninety-two of these checks are declared informational and are excluded from the score outright, whatever they find. For the eight that count, weight is not chosen rule by rule: each declares a confidence tier, and one shared function turns that tier into a multiplier you can read for yourself.

• One missing FAQ is charged once

  The composite question-and-answer check is a rollup over the FAQ-markup and question-heading rules: both still run and still show their own result, but their impact is removed from the score so a single gap is not penalised twice. The report names every rule it excluded.

• The AI writes prose, never a verdict

  Every status comes from a deterministic rule read off the rendered page, so the same page scores the same twice; where an AI explanation appears it is labelled as prose and cannot change a status or a score. Findings link the standard they rest on, and these 100 checks run inside the same free audit as the other 886 - no account.

This check runs on its own here, and as part of the full audit alongside the other 985 rules. Either way the findings carry their evidence and their citation, and the report is never published or kept.

1. 1

   Phrase headings as the question the section answers, so the match is explicit rather than inferred.

2. 2

   Answer the question in the first sentence under the heading, then elaborate. A buried answer is one an engine cannot bound.

3. 3

   Add FAQPage or HowTo structured data where the content genuinely is a set of questions or a sequence of steps.

4. 4

   Put a named author and a visible published or modified date on the page, so there is something to cite.

5. 5

   Use semantic landmarks — header, nav, main, article, footer — so the answer can be separated from the navigation and the cookie notice.

1. 1

   Enter your address

   Just the domain is enough — example.com, with or without the https. No account, no card, no crawl of your whole site.

2. 2

   We render it like a visitor

   Your page opens in a real browser and JavaScript runs to completion, so what gets audited is the page a person actually sees — not the raw HTML your server sent. A screenshot comes back with the report as evidence of exactly what we measured.

3. 3

   You get findings you can act on

   Up to 986 checks run against that rendered page. Each finding names the rule, quotes the evidence found on your page, cites the public specification behind it, and says what to change. Nothing is a judgement call — run it twice on an unchanged page and the score is identical.

What runs this check

• Real browser rendering
• JSON-LD expansion

Named because provenance is the product. Every finding in your report says which of these produced it, so you can check the reasoning rather than take a score on faith.

Also checks

This page answers these searches too — they are the same job, so they share one page rather than being split across near-identical ones:

• answer engine optimization
• aeo checker
• featured snippet checker
• ai overview optimization

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