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Show HN: Potatometer – Check how visible your website is to AI search (GEO) (potatometer.com)

4 points by apswin ↗ HN
Most SEO tools only check for Google. But a growing chunk of search is now happening inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI engines, and the signals they use to surface content are different. Potatometer runs multiple checks across both traditional SEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) factors and gives you a score with specific recommendations. Free, no login needed. Curious if others have been thinking about this problem and what signals you think matter most for AI visibility.

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apswin
Hey HN, creator here. Happy to answer questions on how the scoring works. Potatometer checks both traditional SEO signals and GEO factors, things like structured data, citation-friendliness, entity clarity, and topical authority, then gives you specific actionable fixes rather than just a score. Also building out AI citation scoring and a content roadmap for AI search visibility if anyone is interested in that direction.
taariqlewis
For a GEO site, Web Fetch can't work? "The page is JavaScript-rendered so WebFetch can't see the results."
13pixels
The JS rendering point is critical. Even though bots like GPTBot technically have headless capabilities, they often fall back to text-only extraction for non-priority pages to save compute. We see a lot of "invisible" content in e-com especially because of this.

One other signal to check: internal linking structure. AI crawlers seem to respect semantic clusters more than traditional pagerank flow. If your "about" page isn't semantically linked to your "product" page in a way the LLM understands as a relationship, it often hallucinates the connection.