Act on AEO recommendations
What should I fix first to improve AI visibility?
The Action center turns the report into a short ranked list — usually two to four items — each tagged High impact or Medium and each carrying a button to the tool that fixes it. Work top down. The items are generated from your own numbers, not from a generic checklist.
What a recommendation looks like
Two items on a Miami agency scoring 81:
| Priority | Recommendation | Button |
|---|---|---|
| High impact | Claim 7 missing directories — "Key directories cite competitors but never you. Getting listed is the fastest citation win." | Fix listings → |
| Medium | Perplexity is your weakest engine (79) — "Strengthen on-site content and citations to improve Perplexity answers." | Open Listings → |
The buttons are real navigation. Fix listings opens Listings, View reviews opens Reviews, Draft a post opens Posts, and Target prompts jumps back to the prompt grid on the Overview tab. Nothing here changes your data on its own — each one hands you to the place where you make the change yourself.
It ranks relative gaps, not failures
That second recommendation is the one to understand before you act on anything. "Perplexity is your weakest engine (79)" is true — 79 is this location's lowest engine score. It is also an excellent result. The Action center compares your engines against each other, so the weakest one always gets named, however well it is doing.
Read every item as "the largest remaining gap" rather than "a problem". On a strong location the whole list may be gaps worth ignoring for now; on a weak one the same list is urgent. The score at the top of the page is what tells you which situation you are in.
When there is genuinely nothing to raise, the tab says so — "No recommendations — visibility looks healthy across the board."
Why the fixes point at other modules
Nothing in the AEO tab changes your AI visibility, because nothing in the AEO tab is what the assistants read. They read your listings, your reviews and your published content. So the recommendations route outward by design:
Citations gaps route to Listings
Missing directories are a listings job. Getting listed is what makes a directory available to be cited in the first place.
Review signal routes to Reviews
Ratings and review volume are what answers most often credit when they explain a recommendation.
Freshness routes to Posts
Recent content is how the assistants judge whether a business is still current.
Then wait. An AEO report is a monthly snapshot, so a fix made today shows up on the 1st of next month at the earliest — see where your report comes from.
The attention chips are the same idea, shortened
The coloured chips under the page title are the one-glance version: 7 directories missing, #1 of 7, and a chip per engine. On a location with no visibility they read differently — Absent on 6 prompts, 7 directories missing, #7 of 7 — which is a complete diagnosis before you have opened a single tab.
Questions people ask
The list changed and I didn't do anything. Why?
Recommendations are rebuilt from each new monthly report. If an engine moved, or a competitor's citations changed, the ranking moves with it.
Can I dismiss or snooze a recommendation?
No. The list is derived from the current report every time it renders, so it reflects the latest measurement rather than a queue you work through.
Where to go next
- Which sources do AI engines cite when they answer about me? — the detail behind the citations recommendation
- Where does my AEO report come from? — when your fix will actually show up