AnswerOpen

What is answer engine optimization, in one paragraph?

Answer engine optimization (AEO) is making a page retrievable, extractable and quotable by the language models that now answer questions instead of listing links. It is a different problem from ranking.

Why is this different from an AI visibility tracker?

Trackers sample prompts and tell you your share of voice. That is a symptom report. AnswerOpen is built around a causal chain, and each link is measured rather than asserted: The evidence chain: declared policy, actual edge behavior, real bot visits, per-page cause, applied fix.

How is the score weighted?

Category weights come from a research pass over 2025–2026 measured studies and official operator documentation, not from intuition. The two categories that decide whether an engine can even use your page carry more than half the score, and schema is deliberately held down because the best available evidence does not show it lifting citations. Scoring categories and why each carries the weight it does.

What results can you actually show?

We are a new product with two audited production sites, both our own. We are not going to invent customer logos. Here is the entire measured record, taken straight from consecutive engine runs on 14 August 2026: Our own sites, before and after one round of applied fixes. Both figures produced by the same engine you would be buying.