Review AI Content Advisor SEO and AEO Recommendations

  • Published on Feb 13, 2026
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The AI Content Advisor SEO and AEO Recommendations tool offers suggestions to improve how your content appears in search results and conversational AI tools. This article will show you how to review its recommendations.

Important Notes

  • You must have the AI Content Advisor enabled to review SEO and AEO recommendations.

  • Make intentional updates to your page. Frequent fine-tuning can delay how search engines and AI systems evaluate your page content.

  • Recommendations are made by AI which can make mistakes. Validate your changes before applying them.

Instructions

  1. Sign in to your site

  2. Ensure Live Edit is on:

    The Live Edit status icon set to ON on the Administrative User dashboard bar.

  3. Navigate to the page or news flash you wish to view recommendations for and click the SEO/AEO tab:

    The blue, rectangular SEO/AEO tab on the left side of a web page in Live Edit mode.

    Note:

    If this is your first time using AI in a CivicPlus product, you will need to acknowledge the use of generative AI before you can proceed. An “AI User Agreement” message will appear immediately after you click the AI Content Advisor icon. You will need to read the disclaimer, check the “I have read and agree to the Terms of Use” checkbox, then click the Confirm button to continue. See the Generative AI Acknowledgement section for more information.

  4. The SEO/ AEO Recommendations panel will appear:

    The SEO/AEO Recommendations panel on the left side of an example webpage.

  5. Click the SEO/AEO check you wish to review:

    Expandable check options in the SEO/AEO Recommendations panel.

    • Page Title: A short summary of the page that appears in search results or previews

    • Page Description: A meta description of the page that appears in search results or previews

    • Heading Structure: The hierarchy and order of headings on the page (H1, H2, H3, and similar) and the phrasing used in headings

    • FAQs: Sections or pages with frequently asked questions (FAQs), ideally in format

    • Readability: How easy the page content is to read and understand, based on plain language use, summaries of long text and attachments, and scannability

      Notes:

      • For more information about SEO, AEO, and the checks made by your scan, click the Why it matters option.

      • When viewing suggestions for your website’s home page, you may notice that FAQs, Readability, and Headings checks are unavailable. These recommendations do not apply to home pages, so they appear grayed out.

  6. View the SEO/AEO recommendations:

    A Page Description recommendation for an example webpage.

  7. Click the Copy button to the right of a recommendation to copy the recommended text to your device’s clipboard, if desired:

    The Copy button to the right of a recommendation in the SEO/AEO panel.

  8. Click the name of the SEO/AEO check to return to the main SEO/AEO Recommendations panel screen:

    The Page Description button above an example recommendation which can be clicked to return to the main panel screen.

  9. Repeat steps 5 through 8 as needed

  10. When you are finished, click the SEO/AEO tab to minimize the SEO/AEO Recommendations panel:

    The blue, rectangular SEO/AEO tab in the upper-right corner of the SEO/AEO panel in Live Edit mode.

  11. Use the recommendations to update your content as desired

Generative AI Acknowledgement

CivicPlus has an AI acknowledgement notice in place for all products that include AI features. When an AI feature is first enabled, each user is prompted to review and accept the notice before using the tool. This acknowledgement only needs to be completed once across all CivicPlus products.

If Municipal Websites Central is the first CivicPlus product you are accessing AI features in, you will be prompted to acknowledge the use of generative AI the first time you click the SEO/AEO Recommendations button. Clicking the icon opens an “AI User Agreement” message. You will need to review the disclaimer, check the “I have read and agree to the Terms of Use” box, and click Confirm to continue. Your acknowledgment is recorded in the CivicPlus Account Service and can be reviewed or revoked at any time.

The AI User Agreement, which must be acknowledged before an AI tool can be used for the first time.

Revoke Your Acknowledgement

Revoking your AI user agreement will immediately remove your access to all AI features, including the AI Content Advisor. For step-by-step instructions on how to view or revoke your acknowledgment, see the AI Policy Agreement article.

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