whether you were mentioned
Use monitoring, and read it as a trend across many runs rather than a single answer. Pair it with your analytics referrals from assistants.
Compare approaches
Different tools, different questions.
We compare categories of tools, not companies. Each one answers a different question, and the honest answer for most teams is to use the right one for the question at hand.
| Prompt-tracking platforms | Classic SEO crawlers | GEOBee | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The question it answers | Did an assistant mention us for these prompts? | Can search engines crawl and index each page? | Can an answer engine reach, parse and lift from each page? |
| Unit of analysis | A prompt and a brand | A URL | A URL, scored three ways |
| Repeatability | Answers vary run to run, so readings are a range | Deterministic | Deterministic: same page, same score |
| Tells you what to change | Rarely, at page level | Yes, for classic SEO | Yes: each finding has a one-line fix |
| AEO and GEO signals | Indirectly, through outcomes | Mostly out of scope | The lead lenses, with published weights |
| AI crawler access per URL | No | Sometimes, as a custom check | Scored in the GEO lens |
| Where your data lives | The vendor’s cloud | Varies | Your machine |
| Measures citations | Yes, that is the point | No | No, and we say so |
why a page can’t be used
Use a crawler that looks at the page the way an answer engine does: access, extraction, answer-readiness, structured data. That is GEOBee.
a fix changed something
Re-crawl and compare. Readiness is deterministic, so a delta means the page changed, not the dice.
Read the long version: What GEOBee measures, and what it deliberately doesn’t.
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