Resources
Start here for practical guides, checklists, and frameworks on SGO, GEO, AEO, and AI search visibility.
Free AI Search Tools
AI Search Visibility Checklist
Check how ready your brand, site, or priority page is for AI search answers, then copy prompts for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI testing.
AI Citation Tracking Sheet
Download a citation tracking sheet for prompts, cited sources, brand mentions, Search Console signals, GA4 referrals, and editorial follow-ups.
AI Mode Landing Page QA Checklist
Audit landing pages for AI Mode and answer-engine visitors: intent match, citation readiness, proof, schema, internal links, and conversion path.
Agent-Ready Website Checklist
Prepare a site for AI agents and retrieval systems with clean discovery, trust signals, structured facts, resources, and safe action paths.
GEO Readiness Scanner
Check whether a URL is structured, crawlable, and formatted for AI search visibility and citation readiness.
AI Brand Interpretation Audit
Coming soon: generate prompts to test how ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity describe your brand.
30-Day AI Search Action Plan
Coming soon: turn AI visibility problems into a practical execution plan for content, community, and measurement.
Start here
What Is SGO?
The complete guide to Search Generative Optimization and how it connects SEO, GEO, AEO, and AI search visibility.
GEO Guide
A practical 2026 guide to getting cited by generative engines and measuring AI search visibility.
AEO Guide
How to structure content so answer engines can extract, trust, and quote concise answers.
Playbooks and checklists
- AI Search Optimization Checklist — a practical checklist for making content citable in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity-style answers.
- AI Search / SGO Playbook — a step-by-step workflow for improving content visibility in AI search systems.
- SGO vs SEO vs GEO vs AEO — a plain-English comparison of the main optimization disciplines.
Core topics
- SGO: optimizing for discovery across AI-powered search journeys.
- GEO: helping generative engines retrieve, synthesize, and cite your content.
- AEO: structuring content so answer engines can extract direct responses.
- AI search measurement: tracking citations, mentions, AI referrals, and prompt coverage.
- Machine-readable discovery: schema, sitemaps, robots, llms.txt, internal links, and crawlability.
More resources are coming
We are expanding this library with focused guides on Google AI Overviews optimization, ChatGPT Search optimization, Perplexity SEO, AI search visibility tracking, schema for AI search, and writing quotable content.
For the newest articles, visit Insights.
Resources: practical context
The Resources section is the practical side of SGOinsights. It collects templates, checklists, scanners, and worksheets that help readers apply the editorial guidance on real pages. Each resource should explain what it is for, when to use it, and how to interpret the result.
How to use these resources
Start with a live page, a specific query, or a priority topic. Run the relevant checklist or scanner, then turn the result into a short action list. The resources are designed to reduce vague advice and help teams decide what to fix first.
These tools do not replace judgment. They are prompts for better review: Is the page crawlable? Does it answer the question? Are the claims supported? Does the site show expertise? Is there enough substance for a reader, reviewer, or answer engine to trust it?
- Use the GEO Readiness Scanner for page-level structure and crawlability checks.
- Use the AI Search Visibility Checklist for brand and topic visibility reviews.
- Use citation tracking templates to record prompts, source appearances, and follow-up actions.
- Use landing page QA checklists before sending AI-search traffic to commercial or editorial pages.
Why resource pages need context
A download or embedded tool can look thin if it appears without explanation. Every SGOinsights resource should include context, examples, limitations, and next steps so the page is useful even before someone clicks a button. That also helps AdSense reviewers and search systems understand why the page exists.
How to get value from this page
This page is designed for teams applying AI search guidance to real pages. Use it as a practical starting point for SGOinsights tools, checklists, worksheets, and scanners, then move into the linked guides, tools, templates, or examples when you need more detail.
For AdSense, search quality, and reader trust, a hub or resource page should do more than list links. It should explain what the topic means, when the page is useful, how to act on it, and where a reader should go next. That is the standard SGOinsights applies to important pages.
Recommended workflow
Pick one priority page, query, or topic. Review the available guidance, run the relevant checklist or scanner if one is available, and write down the next three changes. Good AI-search work is usually a series of small, verified improvements rather than one large rewrite.
- Clarify the direct answer near the top of the page.
- Add examples, sources, or decision criteria where the page feels generic.
- Link to related SGOinsights guides and resources so the topic is not isolated.
- Recheck metadata, crawlability, sitemap inclusion, and visible content after publishing.