Last updated: July 2026
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What Is an AEO Score?
The SearchDock AEO Score is a 0–100 composite of citation frequency, passage extractability, entity clarity, and content freshness across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.
Why both dashboards matter
The 12% problem
Only about 12% of the URLs ChatGPT cites rank in Google's top 10. Ranking and being cited are two different games. Most teams pay for two tools to play both. SearchDock is one.
SearchDock tracks Google rankings from Search Console and AI citations from multi-pass prompt sampling in one nav — Websites, Pages, Keywords, Competitors, GSC, and Crawl alongside your AEO Score.
Source: independent analyses of ChatGPT citation overlap with Google top-10 results (2025–2026). SearchDock measures both channels so you see the full picture.
How is the AEO Score calculated?
SearchDock combines four weighted dimensions: citation frequency (40%), passage extractability (25%), entity clarity (20%), and content freshness (15%) across tracked prompts and key URLs.
Each dimension is normalized to 0–100 before weighting. Scores update weekly on Starter, daily on Growth.
What is a good AEO Score?
Scores above 70 indicate strong citation performance on your tracked prompt set. Below 40 means competitors dominate most commercial prompts — prioritize answer-first content refreshes.
Compare your score to competitors on the same prompts, not absolute thresholds.
How do you improve your AEO Score?
Add answer-first paragraphs under question headings, update stale pages, fix schema errors, unblock AI crawlers, and expand tracked prompts to cover your full buyer journey.
SearchDock queues specific URL-level recommendations ranked by projected citation lift.