GEO actions
Knowing you're invisible in an AI answer is only useful if you can fix it. GEO actions turn every gap Sonarvue finds into a concrete page or prompt change to win the citation - then you re-measure whether the answer actually moved. Free to start.
Measurement is half the job
GEO actions are the concrete fixes Sonarvue recommends for each gap it finds - the specific change that makes an answer engine more likely to name and cite you. Measuring how the AI describes you tells you where you stand. It does not, on its own, change the answer. The other half of the work is doing something about it, and doing the right something rather than guessing.
That is the line between AEO and GEO. Answer-engine optimization is the measurement: are you named, where, with what sentiment, against whom. Generative engine optimization is the action: the edits to your content and presence that move the answer. GEO without AEO is guesswork - you change things and hope. AEO without GEO is a dashboard you can't act on. Sonarvue closes the loop.
From a gap to a fix
When Sonarvue finds a prompt where you're missing or losing, it doesn't just flag it. It points at the likely reason and the highest-leverage fix, drawn from the things that actually decide whether an engine can read and cite you:
Answer-formatted content. Engines lift clear, direct answers to the questions buyers ask. If the answer to a buying question lives three scrolls deep in a marketing page, it doesn't get cited. The fix is often a crisp, lead-with-the-answer section or FAQ.
Structured data and a clear definition. FAQ and product schema give the engines something machine-readable to quote, and a plain "[Brand] is a [category] that does X" sentence makes your entity easy to extract. Vague positioning is hard for an AI to repeat back accurately.
Crawler access and a site map for AI. If your robots.txt blocks the AI crawlers, or you have no llms.txt guiding them, the engines can't read you in the first place. That is the most common and most fixable reason a brand is invisible.
You can preview several of these fixes for free, right now, with our free AEO tools - grade your site's AI-readiness, generate an llms.txt or FAQ schema, or check whether the AI crawlers are blocked. Inside Sonarvue, the same kinds of fixes are tied to the specific prompts where they'll move your visibility.
Then re-measure
A recommendation you can't verify is just an opinion. Because Sonarvue tracks the answer on a cadence, you can see whether a fix actually changed anything - did your visibility score rise, did the engine start naming you, did your share of voice on that prompt improve. The loop is measure, fix, re-measure, and it's what turns AI visibility from a worry into a workstream with a feedback signal.
Why it matters
Content and SEO teams are used to working against a scoreboard. AI visibility has felt like the opposite: a vague sense that you might be missing from the answers, with no clear lever to pull. GEO actions give you the lever and the scoreboard at once - a prioritized list of concrete changes, each tied to a prompt and a metric that tells you whether it worked. And it starts free, with no install and your first read in minutes.
Frequently asked
What are GEO actions?
Generative engine optimization actions are the concrete fixes Sonarvue recommends for each gap it finds - the specific page, content, or prompt change that makes an answer engine more likely to name and cite you. It's the action half of the loop that sits on top of the measurement.
What kinds of fixes does Sonarvue suggest?
The high-leverage ones that decide whether an engine can read and cite you: answer-formatted content that directly answers the question buyers ask, FAQ and structured data the engines lift into answers, a clear machine-readable definition of what you are, and AI-crawler access. You can preview several of these for free in our tools - the AI Visibility Checker, llms.txt generator, FAQ schema generator, and AI crawler check at /tools/.
How do I know a fix worked?
You re-measure. Because Sonarvue tracks the answer on a cadence, you can see whether your visibility score and share of voice actually moved after a change, rather than guessing. The loop is measure, fix, re-measure.
Why is acting on AI visibility different from SEO?
SEO optimizes a page to rank in a list. GEO optimizes your presence to be cited inside a synthesized answer, which weighs clarity, corroboration, and machine-readability across many sources, not just links to your domain. The tactics overlap, but the target is the answer, not the ranking.