Frequently Asked Questions
Find clear, factual answers about Zobay Rank, technical SEO crawling, AI answer engine citations, generative optimization, and subscription credits.
Platform Identity & Foundations
Essential questions explaining what Zobay Rank is, how our three optimization layers synergize, and why multi-tier search visibility is required in 2026.
What is Zobay Rank?
Zobay Rank is an AI-powered SEO, Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platform developed by Zobay. It provides automated technical website crawling, live prompt tracking across leading AI models, citation extraction, and prioritized optimization recommendations in a single operating system.
What is the difference between SEO, AEO, and GEO?
SEO optimizes websites for crawler indexing and algorithmic rankings on Google/Bing. AEO structures content so conversational AI models (ChatGPT, Perplexity) cite your brand as an authoritative source in answer cards. GEO builds entity consistency and authority so generative search engines actively recommend your product during buyer evaluations.
What is AI Search Optimization?
AI Search Optimization is the holistic strategy of optimizing a brand's technical infrastructure, content extractability, and entity authority so it succeeds across both traditional algorithmic search engines (Google, Bing) and AI generative answer models (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini).
How does Zobay Rank work?
You enter your website URL. Zobay Rank's high-concurrency BFS crawler audits your site's technical health. Simultaneously, our AEO and GEO engines query leading AI models with industry prompts to track brand citations, entity consistency, and competitor visibility in real-time.
Technical SEO & Website Auditing
Everything you need to know about our high-speed website crawler, status code verifications, canonical redirects, and health score calculations.
What does an SEO audit analyze?
A Zobay Rank SEO audit inspects HTTP status codes (200, 301, 404, 500), title tags, meta descriptions, H1–H6 heading hierarchies, canonical URLs, robots.txt directives, XML sitemaps, broken internal links, image alt attributes, and server response times.
How does Zobay Rank track competitors?
Zobay Rank benchmarks your website side-by-side against competitor domains, identifying which queries competitors win in traditional search and which prompts cite competitor URLs in AI answer engines, pinpointing your exact growth gaps.
How is the 0–100 SEO Health Score computed?
The overall SEO Health Score is a weighted composite of four deterministic technical categories: Technical SEO (30%), Indexability (25%), Metadata & Content (25%), and Link Health (20%). It isolates critical errors like broken canonicals or crawl loops before they harm rankings.
Can AI crawlers crawl my site if robots.txt disallows them?
No. Legitimate AI search crawlers (such as OpenAI's GPTBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended) strictly respect robots.txt directives. If you block them, AI models cannot access or verify your web content and will cite competitor pages instead.
AEO, Citations & Generative Optimization
Detailed breakdowns on how AI answer models extract sources, why entity optimization matters, and how the 8-factor GEO score is calculated.
What does AEO measure?
AEO measures prompt visibility (how often your brand appears in AI answers), citation frequency (how often your domain is linked as a footnote source), answer sentiment, and competitor citation gaps across conversational queries.
What does GEO measure?
GEO measures your 8-factor score: AI Visibility Score, Recommendation Strength, Citation Authority, Entity Understanding, Content Extractability, Technical AI Accessibility, Cross-Engine Parity, and Commercial Discovery.
What are AI citations?
AI citations are explicit hyperlinked references or footnote attributions provided by an AI answer model acknowledging the original website used to verify its response, driving high-intent referral traffic directly to your pages.
What are entities?
Entities are verified real-world concepts, organizations, products, and persons represented in search knowledge graphs. Clear entity optimization prevents AI models from confusing your brand with competitors or hallucinating inaccurate data.
Plans, Credits & Enterprise Governance
Transparent information regarding plan tiers, monthly rollover credits, and enterprise security standards.
Does Zobay Rank offer a free plan?
Yes. Zobay Rank offers a 100% Free plan providing 50 monthly credits to run initial website audits and test AI prompt tracking without requiring a credit card.
How are Zobay Rank credits used?
Credits are consumed when running website crawls (proportional to pages crawled) or executing live AI answer engine prompt analyses. Monthly subscription credits replenish each billing cycle, and one-time top-up packs never expire.
Have a Specific Question?
Our engineering and search team is here to assist. Contact us directly at support@zobay.in or test your domain with our free audit scanner.