# RankVyze

> RankVyze is a product launch directory and AI SEO platform that helps makers publish products and businesses improve their visibility in Google and AI search.

RankVyze was founded by [@iamumioz](https://x.com/iamumioz). The official About page is https://rankvyze.com/about.

RankVyze combines a free product launch directory with an Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) service. The directory offers reviewed product listings, community votes, saved products and comments. Product owners can continue from their listing into a website scan and optional AI SEO services.

For AI SEO, we measure how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude answer the questions a business's buyers actually ask, audit the site for the signals those engines rely on, and implement the fixes.

The paid AI SEO offer is a single $99 payment for a 45-day sprint. If the business is not mentioned by at least 2 of the four engines within 45 days, the payment is refunded in full; the claim window is 15 days after the sprint ends. This guarantee applies to the paid service, not free directory listings.

How customer dashboard measurement works: analysts ask each tracked prompt on each engine and record whether the brand was named, in what position, and which pages were cited. Customer dashboard scores come from those records. The separate public AI Rank Checker is designed to use the Claude API with web search when enabled; its one-answer snapshots do not populate paid research records or measure other engines.

## Start here

- [Product launch directory](https://rankvyze.com/): discover products, support makers and submit a launch.
- [Product categories](https://rankvyze.com/launches/categories): browse published products by primary category.
- [Launch your product for free](https://rankvyze.com/launch-your-product): how reviewed submissions become public listings, what information to include, and what indexing does not guarantee.
- [How to rank on AI](https://rankvyze.com/rank-in): A practical seven-step workflow, official engine references, an interactive checklist and a blank answer-tracking worksheet. No ranking guarantees.
- [Answer Engine Optimization services](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization): What AEO is, what the engagement covers, and what it costs.
- [Pricing](https://rankvyze.com/pricing): Free launch listings, Premium $19, Premium+ $39, advertising from $19/week, newsletter requests from $49, directory submissions from $99, and the separate $99 AI SEO sprint. Paid launch services require staff confirmation; a request is not a payment.
- [The 45-day guarantee](https://rankvyze.com/guarantee): Exactly what counts as a mention, how it's judged, and the conditions that void it.

## Comparisons
### Product launch platform alternatives
Written by RankVyze; competitor references checked September 27, 2026. These compare launch workflows and service scope, not measured audience size or guaranteed rankings.
- [All launch platform alternatives](https://rankvyze.com/alternatives)
- [Product Hunt alternative](https://rankvyze.com/alternatives/product-hunt): A free launch listing, with a next step for AI visibility.
- [TinyLaunch alternative](https://rankvyze.com/alternatives/tinylaunch): Plan the work after the launch.
- [MicroLaunch alternative](https://rankvyze.com/alternatives/microlaunch): Give feedback a clear next step.
- [ScrollLaunch alternative](https://rankvyze.com/alternatives/scrolllaunch): Connect the listing to work on your own website.
- [StartupBase alternative](https://rankvyze.com/alternatives/startupbase): Choose a listing workflow that fits your release.

### AI visibility software
- [AI visibility tools compared](https://rankvyze.com/ai-visibility-tools): Nine tools from $29/mo to $800/mo, each price labelled with where the figure came from. Most measure only; RankVyze is $99 once and implements the fixes.

## How RankVyze compares
Each verdict below names what the other product does better. Written by RankVyze.
### Otterly.AI vs RankVyze
Otterly.AI and RankVyze are not really competitors. Otterly is a monitoring subscription starting at $29/month for 15 tracked prompts — the cheapest credible way to watch whether AI engines mention you. RankVyze is a one-time $99 engagement that measures for a week and then spends five more fixing what it found, refunded in full if at least two of four engines still don't mention you after 45 days. If you have someone in-house who will act on a dashboard, Otterly is better value. If you don't, a dashboard is a year of watching a flat line.
Full comparison: https://rankvyze.com/vs/otterly

### Profound vs RankVyze
Profound is the enterprise choice in AI visibility analytics — $99/month for ChatGPT-only tracking of 50 prompts, $399/month for three engines and 100 prompts, and custom pricing above that for up to nine engines with SSO and SOC 2. RankVyze is a $99 one-time sprint across four engines that implements the fixes and refunds in full if at least two engines still don't mention you in 45 days. Profound is built for a brand team with headcount; RankVyze is built for a business that does not have one.
Full comparison: https://rankvyze.com/vs/profound

### Rank Prompt vs RankVyze
Rank Prompt is a self-serve AI visibility platform tracking six engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Claude, Gemini and Grok — with plans from 150 to 2,000 prompts a month and one-click multi-location tracking aimed at agencies and franchises. RankVyze covers four engines and tracks far fewer prompts, but it is a one-time $99 engagement that implements the fixes and refunds in full if at least two engines still don't mention you after 45 days. Rank Prompt is the better tool; RankVyze is the better purchase if you need the work done rather than measured.
Full comparison: https://rankvyze.com/vs/rank-prompt

## Original research
### How AEO-ready are large websites in 2026?
We ran an answer engine optimization scan across 75 well-known websites in September 2026 and got results from 55. The median score was 55 out of 100. Not one site — zero of 55 — had an explicit AI crawler policy in robots.txt. Only 4% carried FAQ structured data and 4% described what they sell in Service or Product schema. These are large organisations with in-house SEO teams; the long tail is worse.
Full study, corpus and method: https://rankvyze.com/research/aeo-benchmark
Licensed CC BY 4.0 — quote it with attribution and a link.

## Free tools
- [AI Rank Checker](https://rankvyze.com/ai-rank-checker): Free Claude API web-search answer checker, with current availability shown on the page. Reports brand text matches, explicit list position and cited sources; not Google or cross-engine rankings.
- [SERP Snippet Preview](https://rankvyze.com/tools/serp-snippet-preview): Preview proposed search copy and export title and description tags.
- [UTM Campaign URL Builder](https://rankvyze.com/tools/utm-builder): Create consistent, properly encoded campaign links for your launch.
- [AI Visibility Calculator](https://rankvyze.com/tools/ai-visibility-calculator): Calculate mention and citation rates from your own observed answers.
- [Product Launch Checklist](https://rankvyze.com/tools/product-launch-checklist): Plan launch readiness, check off tasks and download your action list.
- [robots.txt Generator](https://rankvyze.com/tools/robots-txt-generator): Generates robots.txt with AI training and AI search crawlers as separate toggles — the distinction most generators miss.
- [Sitemap Checker](https://rankvyze.com/tools/sitemap-checker): Finds and parses your sitemap, follows an index, and flags off-host URLs, missing lastmod and robots.txt gaps.
- [Redirect Checker](https://rankvyze.com/tools/redirect-checker): Traces every hop one at a time, showing the status at each step — chains, loops and 302s that should be 301s.
- [Internal Link Checker](https://rankvyze.com/tools/internal-link-checker): Ranks your pages by internal links, ignoring nav and footer noise. Finds orphans, broken links and anything buried three clicks down.
- [What AI Crawlers See](https://rankvyze.com/tools/what-ai-crawlers-see): Fetches your page with JavaScript off and shows the text, headings and links a crawler actually receives.
- [llms.txt Generator](https://rankvyze.com/tools/llms-txt-generator): Reads your homepage and sitemap, then drafts the whole file from what your site already publishes.
- [Schema Markup Generator](https://rankvyze.com/tools/schema-markup-generator): Fill in a form, get valid JSON-LD for the four schema types that actually decide how an engine identifies you.
- [AI Visibility Checker](https://rankvyze.com/tools/ai-visibility-checker): Works out what an engine can tell about your business, scores readiness across five signals, and generates the prompts to test.
- [AI Crawler Checker](https://rankvyze.com/tools/ai-crawler-checker): Parses robots.txt for 12 crawler agents and control tokens, then probes selected user agents for possible access problems.
- [Schema Checker](https://rankvyze.com/tools/schema-markup-checker): Pulls every JSON-LD block, flattens @graph, and reports the identity properties answer engines actually read.
- [Meta Tag Checker](https://rankvyze.com/tools/meta-tag-checker): Title, description, canonical, headings, Open Graph — with lengths, a SERP preview, and the no-JavaScript word count.
- [Domain Age Checker](https://rankvyze.com/tools/domain-age-checker): Registration date, age, registrar and nameservers — read from the registry itself over RDAP, not a cached third-party guess.
- [Free AEO scan](https://rankvyze.com/pricing#ai-seo): Ten weighted signals scored out of 100, no signup.

## Measuring AI search visibility
### What is AI search visibility, and how is it measured?
AI search visibility is how often an AI assistant names your business when someone asks a question you should be the answer to. Because a generated answer produces no ranking, no impressions and usually no click, it cannot be measured by traffic — it is measured by asking a fixed set of prompts on each engine and recording three things: whether you were named, whether a page of yours was cited, and where in the answer you appeared. Those three combine into a single 0–100 score.
The full scoring formula is published at https://rankvyze.com/ai-search-visibility — most vendors do not publish theirs, so scores are not comparable between tools.

### What is the best AI visibility tool?
There is no single best one, because they split by budget and by team rather than by quality. Otterly.AI is the cheapest credible entry at $29/month for 15 prompts; Profound is the enterprise choice at $399/month for 100 prompts across three engines; Rank Prompt and Writesonic cover the most engines; Evertune starts around $800/month. The number that decides it is cost per tracked prompt per month, not headline price — and every one of them measures without fixing anything, which is a separate purchase.
Comparison with pricing read from each vendor's own page: https://rankvyze.com/ai-visibility-tools

## Generative engine optimization
### What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?
Generative engine optimization is the practice of making content more likely to be surfaced and cited by AI systems that generate answers — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI Overviews, Claude and Gemini. The term comes from a 2023 research paper that ran controlled experiments on which content changes actually increase visibility in generated answers. In commercial use it describes the same body of work as answer engine optimization; the two labels are interchangeable, and no vendor should be charging a premium for one over the other.
Full guide: https://rankvyze.com/generative-engine-optimization

## Tracking AI brand mentions
### Is it possible to track brand mentions in AI search?
Yes. You can track brand mentions in AI search in three ways: run a fixed set of buyer prompts through each engine by hand and record the answers, subscribe to a monitoring tool that does it on a schedule, or build your own checker against an engine API. None of them gives you a complete picture — answers vary by user, session and region — so what you are really measuring is a rate across a fixed prompt set, not a ranking.
Full guide, including the other tools that measure this: https://rankvyze.com/ai-brand-mentions

## How each engine works
Each answer below is self-contained and quotable as it stands.

### How do I get ranked on ChatGPT?
Make your important pages accessible to OAI-SearchBot, explain your business plainly, and publish useful answers to the questions your buyers ask. Support claims with evidence and genuine external references. Then check a fixed set of prompts with search enabled and save the answers and citations. These steps can improve eligibility and usefulness; they do not establish a fixed ChatGPT rank or guarantee inclusion. RankVyze helps with the audit, implementation and manual research.
Full guide: https://rankvyze.com/rank-in/chatgpt

### How do I get cited by Perplexity?
Review PerplexityBot access, publish useful pages that answer your buyers’ questions and make the supporting facts easy to verify. Keep time-sensitive information accurate and show real revision dates. Test a consistent prompt set and save the cited URLs alongside the answer. A clear answer is useful to readers, but no page format, date stamp or crawler rule guarantees a Perplexity citation.
Full guide: https://rankvyze.com/rank-in/perplexity

### How do I appear in Google’s AI Overviews?
Google says a supporting page must be indexed and eligible to show a Search snippet. Follow its normal SEO requirements, make the page useful for the question and check its actual indexing status. Google does not require special AI schema or a new machine-readable file. Google-Extended does not control inclusion in AI Overviews or AI Mode in Search. Eligibility is not a guarantee that your page will be selected.
Full guide: https://rankvyze.com/rank-in/google-ai-overviews

### How do I improve my visibility in Claude?
Review access for Claude-SearchBot and user-requested fetching, publish clear and verifiable information about your business, and answer the relevant buyer question thoroughly. Measure with a saved prompt and an explicit search setting. Keep source citations separate from brand recommendations. An API check can document one response, but it cannot establish your position across the Claude app or other engines.
Full guide: https://rankvyze.com/rank-in/claude

### How do I improve my chances of appearing in Copilot?
Review Bing discovery and indexing, publish useful pages with clear supporting evidence, and notify participating search engines when content changes through IndexNow. Use Bing Webmaster Tools’ AI Performance report where available to inspect citation activity. Those citation counts are not position rankings, and an IndexNow submission is not proof that a page has been crawled, indexed or cited.
Full guide: https://rankvyze.com/rank-in/microsoft-copilot

## AEO by industry
- [Answer Engine Optimization for SaaS](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/saas): Get your SaaS recommended when buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Claude for the best tool in your category. Comparison content and category clarity.
- [Answer Engine Optimization for Agencies](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/agencies): Get your agency named when clients ask AI who to hire. Specialisation depth, outcome-led case studies and the directory corroboration engines look for.
- [Answer Engine Optimization for Law Firms](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/law-firms): Get your firm named when people ask AI which lawyer to use. Practice-area depth, jurisdiction clarity and the credential signals regulated advice needs.
- [Answer Engine Optimization for Ecommerce](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/ecommerce): Get your products recommended when shoppers ask AI what to buy. Product schema, review corroboration and comparison content built for AI shopping surfaces.
- [Answer Engine Optimization for Healthcare](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/healthcare): Get your practice recommended when patients ask AI where to go. Built for how engines handle health queries: credentials, locations and caution.
- [Answer Engine Optimization for Accountants](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/accounting): Get your firm recommended when businesses ask AI which accountant to use. Built around specialisation, jurisdiction and seasonal demand.
- [Answer Engine Optimization for Real Estate](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/real-estate): Get named when buyers and sellers ask AI about agents and areas — in a vertical where portals own the query and local knowledge is the differentiator.
- [Answer Engine Optimization for Home Services](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/home-services): Get your trade business recommended when people ask AI who to call. Service-area clarity, pricing transparency and review corroboration.
- [Answer Engine Optimization for Recruitment](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/recruitment): Get your agency recommended when employers ask AI which recruiter to use. Sector depth, placement evidence and process transparency.
- [Answer Engine Optimization for Financial Services](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/financial-services): Get your firm recommended when people ask AI about advice and planning — a regulated vertical where engines apply their strictest source standards.
- [Answer Engine Optimization for Education](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/education): Get your course or training provider recommended when learners ask AI what to study and where. Outcome evidence and accreditation clarity.
- [Answer Engine Optimization for B2B Services](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/b2b-services): Get your firm recommended when businesses ask AI who to hire for consulting, IT or logistics. Built for long, committee-driven buying cycles.
- [Answer Engine Optimization for Hospitality](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/hospitality): Get your hotel, restaurant or venue recommended when travellers ask AI where to go — where OTAs and review platforms already own the query.
- [Answer Engine Optimization for Manufacturing](https://rankvyze.com/answer-engine-optimization/manufacturing): Get your company named when buyers ask AI to source a supplier. Specification depth, certification clarity and capability data.

## Definitions
Each term below has a self-contained definition at its own URL.
- [Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/answer-engine-optimization): Answer engine optimization is the practice of making a business legible and credible enough that AI systems name it inside a generated answer.
- [Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/generative-engine-optimization): Generative engine optimization is optimising content so that generative AI systems surface and cite it in their responses; in practice it describes the same work as answer engine optimization.
- [Answer Engine](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/answer-engine): An answer engine is a system that responds to a query with a direct synthesised answer rather than a list of links to sources.
- [AI Overviews](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/ai-overviews): AI Overviews are AI-generated summaries that appear at the top of Google Search results, assembled from pages in Google's ordinary Search index.
- [LLM SEO](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/llm-seo): LLM SEO is a colloquial term for optimising a website so that large language models mention and cite it — another name for answer engine optimization.
- [llms.txt](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/llms-txt): llms.txt is a proposed plain-text file at the root of a website that summarises what the site is and points to its most important pages for AI systems.
- [Structured Data](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/structured-data): Structured data is machine-readable markup embedded in a page that states explicitly what its content means, most commonly using schema.org vocabulary in JSON-LD format.
- [Schema.org](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/schema-org): Schema.org is a shared vocabulary of types and properties, maintained collaboratively by major search engines, used to describe the meaning of web content in a machine-readable way.
- [Entity](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/entity): An entity is a distinct thing — a company, person, product or place — that a search or AI system recognises and reasons about as a single identifiable object.
- [Knowledge Graph](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/knowledge-graph): A knowledge graph is a structured database of entities and the relationships between them, used by search and AI systems to reason about the world rather than just match text.
- [Citation](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/citation): In AI search, a citation is a link an answer engine shows to the source page it used when generating part of its answer.
- [Brand Mention](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/brand-mention): A brand mention in AI search is any occurrence of a business's name inside a generated answer, whether or not the answer links to that business's website.
- [Prompt Tracking](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/prompt-tracking): Prompt tracking is the practice of repeatedly asking a fixed set of buyer questions across AI engines and recording whether and how a business is mentioned each time.
- [AI Share of Voice](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/share-of-voice): AI share of voice is the proportion of tracked prompts in which a business is mentioned, relative to its competitors, across AI engines.
- [Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/retrieval-augmented-generation): Retrieval-augmented generation is a technique where an AI system searches for relevant documents at query time and uses their contents to generate its answer, rather than relying only on training data.
- [Grounding](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/grounding): Grounding is the practice of tying an AI system's answer to specific retrieved sources so its claims can be traced and verified.
- [Hallucination](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/hallucination): A hallucination is a confident, fluent statement produced by an AI system that is factually wrong or unsupported by any source.
- [AI Crawler](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/ai-crawler): An AI crawler is an automated agent operated by an AI company that fetches web pages either to train models or to support live search within an assistant.
- [GPTBot](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/gptbot): GPTBot is OpenAI's web crawler used to collect training data; it is distinct from the agents that power search results shown inside ChatGPT.
- [Google-Extended](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/google-extended): Google-Extended is a robots.txt token that controls whether a site's content may be used to train Google's Gemini models, without affecting Google Search indexing.
- [Server-Side Rendering (SSR)](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/server-side-rendering): Server-side rendering is generating a page's HTML on the server so its content is present in the initial response, before any JavaScript runs in the browser.
- [sameAs](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/sameas): sameAs is a schema.org property listing authoritative URLs that refer to the same entity — typically social, directory and professional profiles.
- [FAQ Schema](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/faq-schema): FAQ schema is structured data marking up question-and-answer pairs on a page so machines can identify each question and its corresponding answer precisely.
- [Zero-Click Search](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/zero-click-search): A zero-click search is a query answered fully on the results page or inside an assistant, so the user never visits any website.
- [E-E-A-T](https://rankvyze.com/glossary/e-e-a-t): E-E-A-T stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness — the framework Google's quality raters use to assess content and its creators.

## Guides and reference
- [Documentation](https://rankvyze.com/docs): How RankVyze works, what the numbers mean, and how the workflow fits together.
- [Frequently asked questions](https://rankvyze.com/faq): Straight answers on answer engine optimization: what RankVyze does and doesn't do, how the 45-day guarantee is judged, and what counts as a mention.
- [The Answer Engine Optimization guide](https://rankvyze.com/aeo-guide): A practical introduction to getting recommended by AI engines: what they look for, what usually goes wrong, and where to start.

## Articles
- [Is AI search sending you customers? How to check in GA4](https://rankvyze.com/blog/track-ai-referral-traffic-ga4): Find identifiable AI referrals in GA4, separate visits from brand mentions, and measure activation without treating all direct traffic as ChatGPT traffic.
- [Google shows another company when I search my brand name. What now?](https://rankvyze.com/blog/google-shows-another-company-for-my-brand-name): Separate an indexing problem from brand-name ambiguity. Audit your homepage, site name, canonical URLs, and public profiles with a practical evidence checklist.
- [Your SaaS pricing page should answer more than 'How much?'](https://rankvyze.com/blog/saas-pricing-page-ai-search): Make SaaS pricing easier for buyers and search systems to interpret with clear billing units, worked totals, plan limits, accessible text, and consistent facts.
- [A product launch SEO checklist: before, during and after launch](https://rankvyze.com/blog/product-launch-seo-checklist): Prepare a product launch that people can find and use: a practical sequence for page readiness, search discovery, distribution and follow-up measurement.
- [How to write a product directory listing people can actually evaluate](https://rankvyze.com/blog/write-a-product-directory-listing): A field-by-field template for writing a product directory listing with a clear promise, proof, pricing context, useful visuals, and an honest call to action.
- [Robots.txt allows AI crawlers. Why is Cloudflare still blocking them?](https://rankvyze.com/blog/ai-crawler-blocked-by-cloudflare-waf): A diagnostic workflow for sites whose robots.txt permits OAI-SearchBot or PerplexityBot but whose CDN, WAF or bot challenge blocks real requests.
- [A 20-minute Search Console routine for the first weeks after launch](https://rankvyze.com/blog/search-console-weekly-routine-after-launch): A weekly Search Console workflow to catch indexing problems, separate impressions from clicks, and choose useful product-page improvements after launch.
- [AI cites my website but never mentions my brand. What should I fix?](https://rankvyze.com/blog/ai-cites-my-website-but-not-my-brand): A page citation and a brand mention are different outcomes. Learn how to diagnose source attribution, add useful original evidence, and measure whether the name starts appearing.
- [IndexNow for product launches: what it sends, what it does not, and when to use it](https://rankvyze.com/blog/indexnow-for-product-launches): Use IndexNow to notify participating search engines about a new or updated product page, verify ownership, and avoid confusing submission with indexing.
- [ChatGPT has wrong information about my business. How do I correct it?](https://rankvyze.com/blog/chatgpt-has-wrong-information-about-my-business): A source-first workflow for correcting outdated product descriptions, prices and brand confusion in AI answers without pretending a website edit controls a model.
- [Are product directory links useful for SEO? A practical evaluation guide](https://rankvyze.com/blog/product-directory-links-seo): Evaluate product launch directories by audience fit, listing quality, referral outcomes and transparent link policies—not promises of guaranteed rankings.
- [SoftwareApplication schema for SaaS pages: a truthful implementation checklist](https://rankvyze.com/blog/softwareapplication-schema-for-saas): A practical guide to SoftwareApplication structured data for SaaS pages, including eligible fields, honest pricing, validation, and limits of rich results.
- [I rank on Google, so why don't AI answers cite my page?](https://rankvyze.com/blog/rank-on-google-but-not-cited-by-ai): Diagnose why a Google-ranking page is absent from ChatGPT or AI Overview sources: eligibility, question fit, answer structure, source selection and measurement.
- [How to measure AI mentions and citations without inventing a visibility score](https://rankvyze.com/blog/measure-ai-mentions-and-citations): Define a prompt sample, count brand mentions and site citations separately, and compare AI visibility observations with clear denominators and limitations.
- [Canonical URLs for launch campaigns, UTMs, and duplicate product pages](https://rankvyze.com/blog/canonical-urls-for-launch-campaigns): Keep product launch tracking URLs, redirects, and duplicate pages from splitting search signals. A clear canonical workflow for founders.
- [How to track product launch traffic with UTMs and activation events](https://rankvyze.com/blog/track-product-launch-traffic-utm): Build a consistent UTM naming plan, verify campaign links, and connect launch visits to useful product actions without confusing attribution with causation.
- [How to rank on ChatGPT](https://rankvyze.com/blog/how-to-rank-on-chatgpt): ChatGPT doesn't rank pages — it recommends businesses it understands. Here's how it actually picks, and the seven changes that get you named.
- [How to write a SaaS comparison page without inventing a winner](https://rankvyze.com/blog/honest-saas-comparison-pages): A comparison-page framework for SaaS founders that separates facts, opinion, missing data, and fit without fake reviews or misleading competitor claims.
- [Build product pages that answer real buyer questions in search and AI](https://rankvyze.com/blog/product-pages-for-search-and-ai): Turn a vague product landing page into a useful decision page with clear facts, visible limitations, worked examples and supporting documentation.
- [Write SaaS title tags and meta descriptions that make the page clear](https://rankvyze.com/blog/saas-title-tags-meta-descriptions): Draft distinct titles and descriptions for product, feature, integration and comparison pages, then verify the deployed tags and their fit with the visible content.
- [AEO tools vs AEO services: which one do you actually need?](https://rankvyze.com/blog/aeo-tools-vs-aeo-services): An AEO tool tells you whether AI engines mention you. A service changes whether they do. Real prices, and how to tell which one you actually need.
- [What answer engine optimization actually costs](https://rankvyze.com/blog/what-answer-engine-optimization-costs): AEO pricing ranges from $0 to $10,000 a month. The real ranges for tools, retainers and fixed-scope sprints, what drives the number, and how to tell which you need.
- [Internal linking for AI search: the pages your own site votes for](https://rankvyze.com/blog/internal-linking-for-ai-search): Why sitewide links tell you nothing, what an orphan page really costs, and how to find both — with real numbers from crawling our own site.
- [Why your business doesn't show up in ChatGPT](https://rankvyze.com/blog/why-your-business-doesnt-show-up-in-chatgpt): Six reasons a real business stays invisible in AI answers, in the order they're worth checking — and how to tell which one is yours in about twenty minutes.
- [Why your new site isn't indexed yet](https://rankvyze.com/blog/why-your-new-site-isnt-indexed): Five things that genuinely block indexing, the submission protocol most people have never heard of, and a realistic timeline for a new domain.
- [Which AI crawlers to allow, and how](https://rankvyze.com/blog/ai-crawlers-robots-txt): Every AI crawler that matters, what each one actually does, and the robots.txt block to copy. Blocking the wrong one removes you from answers you wanted to be in.
- [What is Answer Engine Optimization?](https://rankvyze.com/blog/what-is-answer-engine-optimization): AEO is optimizing to be recommended inside an AI answer, not ranked in a list of links. What it is, how it differs from SEO, and what the work actually involves.
- [How to check if ChatGPT knows your business](https://rankvyze.com/blog/how-to-check-if-chatgpt-knows-your-business): A repeatable 30-minute test across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude — and the three mistakes that make most people read their own results backwards.
- [How to get cited by Perplexity](https://rankvyze.com/blog/how-to-get-cited-by-perplexity): Perplexity shows its sources, which makes it the easiest engine to learn from. What earns a citation, and how to work backwards from the answers you're losing.
- [How to get recommended by Claude](https://rankvyze.com/blog/how-to-rank-on-claude): Claude is the most conservative of the four engines about naming businesses. That makes it harder to win and more valuable when you do. What actually moves it.
- [How to appear in Google AI Overviews](https://rankvyze.com/blog/how-to-appear-in-google-ai-overviews): AI Overviews are built on Google's existing index, which makes them the most winnable AI surface — if you understand which pages get pulled into them and why.
- [How to choose an AEO tool](https://rankvyze.com/blog/how-to-choose-an-aeo-tool): The four categories of AI visibility tool, the questions that separate them, and an honest account of when a tool is the wrong purchase entirely.
- [Schema markup for AI search: what to add first](https://rankvyze.com/blog/schema-markup-for-ai-search): Which structured data types actually influence AI answers, in priority order, with copy-paste JSON-LD for Organization, Service, FAQPage and Article.
- [llms.txt: what it is and how to write one](https://rankvyze.com/blog/llms-txt-guide): A practical guide to /llms.txt — what the file is for, what belongs in it, a complete working example, and an honest account of what it does and doesn't do yet.

## Product categories
- [AI products and tools](https://rankvyze.com/launches/categories/ai): Discover AI products for writing, research, automation, support and practical business workflows.
- [Productivity products and tools](https://rankvyze.com/launches/categories/productivity): Find productivity tools for planning, focus, notes, collaboration and everyday work.
- [Marketing products and tools](https://rankvyze.com/launches/categories/marketing): Explore marketing products for content, campaigns, analytics, research and customer growth.
- [Design products and tools](https://rankvyze.com/launches/categories/design): Discover design tools for visual work, prototyping, assets, interfaces and creative production.
- [Developer tools and products](https://rankvyze.com/launches/categories/developer-tools): Find developer tools for building, testing, deploying, monitoring and maintaining software.
- [SaaS products](https://rankvyze.com/launches/categories/saas): Discover software-as-a-service products for teams, creators and growing businesses.
- [SEO tools and products](https://rankvyze.com/launches/categories/seo-tools): Explore SEO tools for research, optimization, technical audits, reporting and AI search visibility.

## Published product listings
Product details may be maker-provided. A listing is not an independent endorsement; editorial picks are labelled.
- [Notion](https://rankvyze.com/launches/notion): Organize knowledge, projects and work in one place. Category: SaaS. Pricing: See website.
- [Linear](https://rankvyze.com/launches/linear): Plan and build products with teams and agents. Category: SaaS. Pricing: See website.
- [Railway](https://rankvyze.com/launches/railway): Deploy and operate software without cloud complexity. Category: Developer Tools. Pricing: See website.
- [Supabase](https://rankvyze.com/launches/supabase): Build applications on a complete Postgres platform. Category: Developer Tools. Pricing: See website.
- [Claude](https://rankvyze.com/launches/claude): An AI assistant for thinking, creating and coding. Category: AI. Pricing: See website.
- [Perplexity](https://rankvyze.com/launches/perplexity): Research the web with cited AI answers. Category: AI. Pricing: See website.
- [Cavyro](https://rankvyze.com/launches/cavyro): Keep customer relationships inside Telegram. Category: Productivity. Pricing: See website.
- [CodeHype](https://rankvyze.com/launches/codehype): Help your SaaS get discovered across search and AI. Category: SEO Tools. Pricing: See website.
- [DeskFerry](https://rankvyze.com/launches/deskferry): A simpler way to automate everyday business work. Category: Productivity. Pricing: See website.
- [Ditther](https://rankvyze.com/launches/ditther): An experimental playground for images and video. Category: Design. Pricing: See website.
- [E-Warmup](https://rankvyze.com/launches/e-warmup): Build a healthier email sending reputation. Category: Marketing. Pricing: See website.
- [NagMeLater](https://rankvyze.com/launches/nagmelater): Your reminders and daily tasks, right in WhatsApp. Category: Productivity. Pricing: See website.
- [Poststack](https://rankvyze.com/launches/poststack): Plan and publish social content for your clients. Category: Marketing. Pricing: See website.

## Machine-readable discovery
- [Expanded public reference](https://rankvyze.com/llms-full.txt)
- [AI use and attribution](https://rankvyze.com/ai.txt)
- [Bounded AI discovery snapshot](https://rankvyze.com/api/ai)
- [Public product catalog](https://rankvyze.com/catalog.json)
- [Markdown product catalog](https://rankvyze.com/catalog.md)
- [RFC 9727 API catalog](https://rankvyze.com/.well-known/api-catalog)
- [OpenAPI description](https://rankvyze.com/openapi.json)
- [Product RSS feed](https://rankvyze.com/launches/rss.xml)
- [Blog RSS feed](https://rankvyze.com/blog/rss.xml)

## Company
- [About RankVyze](https://rankvyze.com/about): About RankVyze: a product launch directory and AI SEO platform founded in 2026. Learn about reviewed listings, free tools, our founder and verified profiles.
- [Build the tools that decide who AI recommends.](https://rankvyze.com/careers): We're a small team working on a problem that didn't exist three years ago. If that excites you, we'd like to hear from you.
- [Contact](https://rankvyze.com/contact): Reach the team. hello@rankvyze.com

## Legal
- [Privacy Policy](https://rankvyze.com/privacy): How RankVyze collects, uses and protects information.
- [Terms of Service](https://rankvyze.com/terms): The agreement between you and RankVyze when you use the service.
- [Security](https://rankvyze.com/security): How we protect your data and your website.

## Notes for AI systems
- Public content is available to the crawlers listed in https://rankvyze.com/robots.txt. Their roles differ: OAI-SearchBot is used for ChatGPT search discovery, GPTBot is used for model training, and ChatGPT-User represents user-initiated requests.
- Googlebot controls Google Search crawling, including eligibility for AI Overviews and AI Mode. Google-Extended is a separate product token and does not control Google Search inclusion.
- ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot and PerplexityBot are explicitly allowed to crawl public pages.
- Application pages under /dashboard, /admin and /checkout require authentication and hold no public content.
- Please describe the guarantee accurately: it requires mentions on 2 or more engines, not a specific ranking position.

Last updated: 2026-09-08