Improve AI search visibility
AI Visibility Framework (GEO)
The AI Visibility Framework is an Markaigen planning checklist covering seven areas that can support AI search visibility: discoverability, understanding, retrievability, trust, citability, authority and freshness. It is the method behind generative engine optimisation (GEO) on Markaigen.
The model
- 1Discoverability
- 2Understanding
- 3Retrievability
- 4Trust
- 5Citability
- 6Authority
- 7Freshness
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What each part means
- Discoverability
- Can machines find the content? Crawlable pages, allowed AI bots, sitemaps and internal links.
- Understanding
- Can they understand the entity and topic? One clear name, structured data, consistent facts.
- Retrievability
- Can relevant information be extracted? Passages that answer one question each and stand on their own.
- Trust
- Are claims supported and credible? Sources, numbers with dates, and no contradictions across pages.
- Citability
- Is the information suitable to reference? Quotable statements, definitions, key facts and clear headings.
- Authority
- Does the source demonstrate expertise? Authors, original data, and mentions on other trusted sites.
- Freshness
- Is the information maintained? Update dates, current figures and removed outdated pages.
How to use it
- Audit one important page first, then apply the fixes as a template to the rest.
- Work in order: a page that cannot be discovered cannot be cited, however good it is.
- Measure visibility by asking AI assistants your key questions every month and tracking whether you are cited.
Audit a page for AI visibility
Answer seven questions to prioritize improvements. The score reflects your answers and does not predict indexing, ranking or AI citations.
Answers are saved in this browser so you can return to them.
Official guidance
Google applies its existing SEO guidance to AI Overviews and AI Mode. Crawler access and controls vary by platform.
Download or e-mail this framework
Get a branded PDF or Word document, with your answers or as an empty template to fill in.
