People ask AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity questions all day. When an AI tool looks for an answer, it picks pages that get to the point fast. If your post takes a while to answer the question, the AI will pick someone else.
Answer Density measures how quickly your posts answer the questions in your headings. The faster you answer, the more often AI tools pick your post.
What it looks at
The plugin reads your posts and finds headings that look like questions. Things like:
- What is X?
- How do I do Y?
- Why does Z happen?
- How to use Z
For each one, it checks the sentence that comes right after. If the sentence answers the question, the post scores well. If the answer is buried later in the paragraph, the post scores lower. If there is no real answer at all, the post scores low.
Your score
Each post gets a score from 0 to 100. The dashboard shows your site average and the posts that need the most work.
A score above 50 is good. A score below 50 means the post probably will not get picked up by AI tools, even if it has the right information somewhere inside it.
“Perplexity selects sources through a retrieval-augmented generation process that evaluates confidence scores…”
Fix → The opener does answer the question, but takes a roundabout path. Tighten it to a single concrete claim that names the subject in sentence 1.
How to fix a weak post
The dashboard shows your weakest posts in a list called Next up: what to fix. For each one, you have three options.
1. Edit the post yourself
Open the post in WordPress. Find the heading the dashboard flagged. Move the answer to the first sentence under the heading. Name the thing the heading is about, then say the answer in plain words. That alone fixes most posts.
2. Use AI Rewrite (Pro)
The plugin can write a new opener for you. Click AI Rewrite on a card. The plugin reads the rest of your paragraph, then drafts a new first sentence that answers the heading.
Before you apply the rewrite, the plugin checks it for you and shows a label next to Suggested opener:
If two regenerations both miss, type a short hint in the Optional Context box. Something like Lead with: The X is Y. That usually flips the next pass to Direct.
3. Dismiss it
Read the heading and the opener yourself. If you are happy with the answer the way it is, click Dismiss in the top right of the card. The post leaves the list. The plugin will not flag that heading again unless you change the heading text.
Dismiss is for cases where you know the answer is fine and the plugin is being too strict. It does not lower your score; it tells the plugin to count the heading as good.
A quick example
Imagine a heading like How does GPTBot crawl my site?
Bad opener (buried answer):
“Before we look at how GPTBot crawls a site, let us first understand what AI crawlers do in general…”
Good opener (direct answer):
“GPTBot crawls your site by sending HTTP requests from OpenAI servers and following links from your sitemap. It respects robots.txt rules.”
The good version answers the question right away. AI tools can pull that sentence and quote it. The bad version makes the reader (and the AI) wait, so neither one sticks around.
Why this helps your site
Posts that answer their own headings clearly:
- Get cited more often by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude
- Show up more in Google AI Overviews
- Read better for real humans, too
This is not about gaming AI. It is about writing the way AI engines and readers prefer. Lead with the point. Then explain.
Where to find it
Open WordPress Admin → AEO God Mode → Dashboard. Your Answer Density score is at the top. Scroll down to Next up: what to fix to see your weakest posts and start improving them.