Answer Engine Optimization
People increasingly ask an AI instead of scrolling a results page — and the answer names a handful of brands. Answer engine optimization is the work of being one of them. First you have to measure whether you already are.
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.
What does SearchDock do for answer engine optimization?
SearchDock gives answer engine optimization teams one dashboard for Google rankings and AI citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and AI Overviews — with multi-pass prompt averaging and native Google Search Console data.
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.
How SearchDock helps
Measure the mentions
Track how often — and how favourably — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews cite you across the prompts your buyers actually type.
Write to be quoted
Score pages for the structure, clarity and evidence that make a passage easy for a model to lift and attribute to you.
Benchmark the field
See your share of AI answers next to each competitor, and the topics where they own the citation and you don't.
In your dashboard
Rankings and citations in one workspace
SearchDock connects to Google Search Console in about 2 minutes and uses real GSC data for rankings and clicks — not third-party estimates alone. SearchDock runs every tracked prompt multiple times and reports the average citation rate — not a single lucky answer — because AI responses are probabilistic. SearchDock surfaces the pages, keywords, and competitors that matter for answer engine optimization — without exporting CSVs between tools.
- ✓Websites → Pages / Keywords / Competitors / GSC / Crawl in one nav
- ✓AEO Score (0–100) combining citation rate, extractability, and freshness
- ✓Autopilot Agents draft gap plans you approve before anything ships
How it works
From a cold connect to a plan you approve — the whole loop runs in one workspace.
Connect
Link your site, analytics and your own model keys. Nothing marked up, nothing locked in.
Discover
CompetitorScout maps who you really compete with across organic, paid and AI search.
Analyze
GapFinder surfaces the keywords, content and citations you're missing — ranked by impact.
Plan
Agents draft a prioritised, week-by-week plan with the projected lift spelled out.
Approve
You sign off. Agents execute within cost caps while Watchdog tracks the results.