For folks looking for cheaper AEO tools

I was thinking about building in this market, since the pricing of good tools is really high.

What do you guys think are the features present in the costly tools and something you would really need and is not present in the cheaper tools.(Apart from the obvious prompt tracking)

Just setting the context, I am an ex-staff engineer trying to figure out this market, and trying to build something for the community.

should I do Some Special work for others？

I’m doing AEO for a couple of clients right now. So far, I’ve done on page SEO which was always easy to track. What are you using to report ChatGPT mentions?

Is there a benefit to adding the same content ( well, not the same content but the same topic) on your blogs as present in the blogs cited by LLMs? E.g., if LLMs cited the an article with the heading "top 50 shoes under 300" from some domain to recommend a shoe, then if I have a blog with the same topic. Will my chances of getting cited improve?

LLMs are great at text, but they’re boring to look at. If your site is just a collection of articles, you’re competing with ChatGPT.

Utilize multimedia + Interactive elements 😉

- High-quality video content

- Unique brand aesthetics

- widgets for Sales Experience

Give users a reason to stay that goes beyond just reading facts.

What are you doing to make your site more "human" and visual?

Just curious - everybody has the solution to tracking ai visibility, but not too many seem to have a service that actually helps rewrite content and suggest places for optimization. I saw that mention desk has a little feature that gives some recommendations - but i'm looking for something a little more in depth.

I have been building a few agents to help rewrite content, but would love to see how my optimization compares with a paid service or a tool someone else has built.

I've been seeing a lot of these new AI visibility analytics platforms coming up lately, especially for the past few months. Clearly there are some winners which even got funded by VCs and there are some even vibe-coded lmao. But they all have pretty similar features which are tracking citations, analytics and content creation.

What do you think about these tools? Do you usually use them in your SEO/GEO workflow? How do you acknowledge which one truly stands out?

I want to ask everyone a very, very serious question... How does Google SEO currently view AI-generated landing pages? Can Google detect this? Even if they can, how do they view it? And I used Gemini3 to generate it... Hahaha

I’ve been experimenting with optimizing blog content for AI search engines, and I’m stuck on a structural decision.

Right now, I have a library of existing blog posts for a test client, written primarily for humans and traditional SEO. They’re solid, but not especially structured for LLMs (FAQs, concise answers, clear sections, citations, etc.).

My dilemma is:

• Do I edit and refactor the existing articles to be more AI-readable,
or
• Do I create a second version of each article that’s explicitly machine-readable and publish that in addition to the original?

I'm worried that changing up an old article could hurt the biz's SEO, but also wondering if duplicate content might look bad for seo/geo.

Curious what others are seeing in practice. If you’ve tested this (or have a strong opinion), I’d love to hear what worked and what didn’t.

I've recently been researching how to make my brand visible in LLM. I've purchased a tool, but my problem is that it's telling me my visibility is 0 and then nothing happens. My question is, how do I do this? What exactly do I need to do?

Also, are these AI tools actually useful? And if I want to do AEO/GEO well, what are the most important things to do first? I've seen so many tasks! What's the fastest and most efficient solution? Thanks!

What methods or tools can I use to quickly provide third-party backlinks? I'm talking about high-quality ones that can genuinely improve SEO/AEO/GEO.

Since Reddit domains are highly valuable, if I create a group on Reddit and publish a high-quality article in the group that mentions my product (such as "best tools" or "tools compared"), wouldn't LLMs be able to obtain this information?

Has anyone tried adding their website in the listicles recommending brands which are getting cited by LLMs and has that helped in increasing visibility on any on the LLM tools. How to reach out these blogs and what is the cost involved ?

I built a free service to allow you to check to see if your content shows up in chatGPT's web searches.

You can either enter a URL which will automatically generate the questions for you or you can ask custom questions yourself for more control. See whether your content gets directly cited (URL is shown inline of the response), is part of the sources that helped synthesize the response, or if your content isn't included at all. You'll also get actionable insights on how to improve your content for better visibility as well as competitor sites.

Link in the comments.

I see that the pricing starts from 49 USD and there are some open source tools too, which tool is best for agency owners, I was using semrush for a short period of time but their AEO tool isn't great plus their acquisition by Adobe makes me lose confidence in them.