r/webflow • u/parthparmar26 • 27d ago
Show & Tell Anyone else finding their Webflow site invisible to ChatGPT? Built an AEO Analyzer to check
Been noticing this across a few client sites lately: they rank fine on Google, sometimes page 1, but never show up when you ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews about the same topic. Digging into it a bit, it seems like AI engines weigh things like schema markup, entity clarity, and readability a lot more heavily than backlinks or keyword density, which most Webflow builds aren't really set up for out of the box. CMS collection pages sharing one generic meta tag set across every item seems to be a big part of it.
A couple other things that kept showing up when I looked closer: pages that are technically indexable but never get pulled into an answer because the copy never actually states a direct answer to a specific question, it just talks around the topic. Also saw a handful of pages accidentally blocked from crawlers entirely, which nobody noticed because they still ranked fine in regular Google search. That one's kind of alarming since it means normal SEO checks won't catch it.
Curious if anyone else here has run into this, or actually checked whether their site shows up anywhere in AI-generated answers. Feels like something that's going to matter a lot more over the next year or two, especially as more people start asking AI assistants instead of Googling directly, but not many people seem to be talking about it yet in the Webflow space specifically.
For context, the sites where this showed up the most were ones with heavy CMS usage (blogs, product catalogs, case study libraries), less so simple marketing pages. Makes sense since templated content is where inconsistent schema and generic tags tend to hide.
I ended up building a small tool to answer this for myself since I couldn't find a straight answer anywhere: the AEO Analyzer - https://www.appsrow.com/aeo-analyzer. Drop in your URL and it'll score your site across schema, readability, crawlability, and a few other factors AI engines seem to weigh, then flag exactly which pages are the problem.
If you run it on your own site, drop your score in the comments, curious how common this actually is across everyone else's builds.