A separate AEO score summarizes the measured signals that make a page's answers easier to identify and extract.
AEO checker
Make the useful answer on the page easier to extract.
The AEO check looks for buried answers, unclear question structure, thin summaries, and sections that need a cleaner answer-first shape.
Content Miner checks
- Direct answers and explicit questions
- Question depth and introduction alignment
- Lists, tables, and section headings
- Word count
AEO measures direct answers, explicit questions, question depth, introduction alignment, lists and tables, section headings, and word count; it does not promise a search-result placement.
What you get
A result page with decisions, not a vague audit.
The public checker gives you a clear starting point. Your workspace keeps the larger scan organized and turns the findings into a useful next step.
The report checks direct answers, explicit questions, question depth, introduction alignment, lists and tables, section headings, and word count.
Use the answer findings and their evidence to decide which passages need attention before editing.
FAQ
Questions people ask about the AEO checker.
What does the AEO check look at?
Direct answer visibility, question and section clarity, summary usefulness, and whether the examples support the answer instead of padding the page. It is looking for a useful answer that can be lifted off the page intact.
Does adding an FAQ section automatically improve AEO?
Only if the questions are real ones and the answers are genuinely on the page. Markup describing questions a visitor cannot see breaks Google's structured data policy — don't mark up content that is not visible to readers — and it is the pattern the Content Wizard flags most often. An FAQ block written to move a number reads like one.
Do FAQ rich results still appear in Google?
No. Google stopped showing FAQ rich results, and Content Miner no longer scores a missing FAQPage block as an AEO gap — charging points for the absence of a retired search feature was measuring the wrong thing. The FAQPage vocabulary is still worth using where a visible FAQ section exists, because it remains the clearest way to tell an answer engine which questions a page answers, and it still counts as recognized structured data about the page. But if the only reason to add it is a Google rich result, that reason is gone.
Will Content Miner write the answers for me?
No. It reports that a page states no explicit question, or answers fewer than it claims to, and leaves the writing to you. An answer worth extracting has to be one somebody meant.
Where do these checks come from?
Both published guidance and our own judgment, and it is worth knowing which is which. The search-facing signals follow Google Search Central and the Bing Webmaster Guidelines, and the structured-data checks follow the schema.org vocabulary. The thresholds — how many words, how many questions, how many sources count as enough — are ours. That is why every finding shows the sentence the extractor actually read: so you can disagree with the threshold and still trust the measurement.
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