AEO Citation Auditとは何ですか？ (What is an AEO Citation Audit?)
An AEO Citation Audit is a URL-level analysis of how frequently each page on your website is cited in AI-generated answers, tested across five major AI engines and benchmarked against three competitors. It is a structured, documented output with citation scores per URL, a competitor comparison matrix, and a prioritised action roadmap — not a general assessment of AI trends or a broad visibility score. For Japanese market operations, the audit includes separate testing and analysis for Japanese-language queries to reflect the specific citation dynamics of Japanese AI responses.
AI Visibility Auditとどう違いますか？ (How does this differ from an AI Visibility Audit?)
The AI Visibility Audit examines your organisation's overall presence in AI systems — entity recognition, brand associations, domain-level authority, and structured data signals. The AEO Citation Audit operates at a more granular level: it tests specific URLs against specific queries to produce a citation score for every page. The two audits address different questions. The AI Visibility Audit asks how well AI systems understand and recognise your brand. The AEO Citation Audit asks which specific pages are earning citations in AI-generated answers and which are not.
ページ引用スコアとは何ですか？ (What is a page citation score?)
A page citation score is the number of times a specific URL on your site was cited across the full query set and all five AI engines, expressed as a percentage of maximum possible citations for that URL. The scoring accounts for both the number of queries that triggered a citation and the number of engines that cited the page, so that a page cited frequently by one engine and a page cited occasionally by multiple engines receive scores that reflect their actual citation profile. All scores are traceable to the underlying query-by-query testing log.
納品までの期間はどれくらいですか？ (What is the timeline?)
The standard AEO Citation Audit for Japanese market operations is delivered in twelve to sixteen business days. The additional time compared to the standard timeline reflects the bilingual query set build and the separate Japanese-language and English-language testing tracks. The query set is built and submitted for approval in the first four days. Testing and competitor mapping take six to eight days. Analysis, roadmap preparation, and bilingual document preparation take a further three to four days.
費用はいくらですか？ (What does the audit cost?)
The AEO Citation Audit for Japanese market operations, including bilingual query testing and bilingual deliverables, is priced from ¥480,000 for sites with up to 200 tested URLs. Larger URL sets and additional competitor domains are quoted individually. All engagements are fixed-fee. Payment is fifty per cent at engagement and fifty per cent upon delivery of the final roadmap and executive summary.
監査後はどうなりますか？ (What happens after the audit?)
The audit delivers a documented roadmap — implementation is a separate engagement. Many clients engage Ignited Nepal on a structured content improvement programme to work through the roadmap's priority items, including page restructuring, content additions, and new page production in both Japanese and English. Others brief their in-house content teams or existing agency partners using the roadmap as the guiding document. A thirty-day post-delivery review session is included at no additional charge to support implementation planning and answer questions that arise when teams begin acting on the findings.
