WriteCited is an AEO content generator that creates articles optimized for AI citations. It calculates an AEO Score (0-100) for every article before you publish, measuring how likely your content is to be cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Unlike standard AI writing tools, WriteCited is built specifically for citation-readiness - generating answer-first structure, entity-rich language, and complete schema markup automatically.

What is an AEO Score?

An AEO Score is a 0-100 rating that measures how likely your content is to be cited by AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. It analyzes five factors: direct answer presence, entity definition clarity, structural quality, schema markup completeness, and entity-rich language. A score above 75 indicates strong citation potential. WriteCited calculates your AEO Score in real time as you write.

How is WriteCited different from ChatGPT or other AI writers?

Standard AI writing tools like ChatGPT generate content optimized for readability. WriteCited generates content optimized for AI citations. Every article WriteCited produces includes an AEO Score, automatic FAQPage and Article schema markup, answer-first opening structure, and entity-rich language that AI models prefer to cite. ChatGPT writes content. WriteCited writes content that gets cited by ChatGPT.

What does the Pro plan include?

The WriteCited Pro plan includes 50 articles per month with AEO scoring, automatic schema markup generation (Article, FAQPage, HowTo, BreadcrumbList), complete head code output for every article, and full access to all future features. The Pro plan is currently $49/month as a launch price (regular price $99/month). A 3-day free trial is included with every new account.

How quickly can I see results from AEO-optimized content?

AEO-optimized content typically starts appearing in AI citations within 2-8 weeks of publishing, significantly faster than traditional SEO which takes 3-6 months. The timeline depends on how quickly GPTBot and ClaudeBot crawl your content, your domain authority, and how competitive your topic area is. New domains can still get cited by ChatGPT within weeks if the content scores 75+ on the AEO Score.

Measuring AEO Performance

How to track whether your content is getting cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity — methods, what to measure, and expected timelines.

Publishing AEO-optimized content is step one. Measuring whether it is working is step two.

Method 1 — Direct query testing

Go to ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Ask the exact question your article answers. Check whether your domain or article is cited in the response. Run this test weekly for your 5 most important target queries and track in a spreadsheet:

Query	ChatGPT	Claude	Perplexity	Date
What is AEO	Yes	No	Yes	2026-03-08

Method 2 — Analytics referrer tracking

•Perplexity passes referrer data to your analytics. In GA4, check Traffic Acquisition for sessions with source containing 'perplexity.ai'.
•ChatGPT Browse appears as source 'chatgpt.com' in GA4. Set up a custom channel grouping to capture all AI-referred traffic separately from organic and direct.

Method 3 — GPTBot crawl verification

In your server access logs, filter for User-Agent containing 'GPTBot'. Regular GPTBot visits to your article URLs confirm your content is being indexed for ChatGPT. If GPTBot has never visited a page, that page cannot be cited.

Expected timeline — new domain with 6–10 articles

Period	What happens
Week 1–2	GPTBot begins crawling — verify in server logs
Week 3–4	First Perplexity citations appear in direct query tests
Week 6–8	ChatGPT citations appear for low-competition queries
Week 10–12	Consistent citations across multiple queries and platforms

If no citations after 12 weeks, check:

•GPTBot is blocked in robots.txt
•No schema markup on published pages
•AEO Score below 75 on published articles
•Target queries are too competitive for current domain authority
•Pages have not been submitted to GSC for indexing