aeo.entity-same-as-missing
Organization or Person structured data has no sameAs links to the entity's profiles elsewhere.
What to change
Add sameAs with the URLs of the entity's official profiles (Wikipedia, Wikidata, LinkedIn, social accounts) so answer engines can match it to the entity they know.
The documentation on developers.google.comA finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.
When it runs
Runs on every AEO audit: of a page, a crawl, a build directory or HTML. Info is a best practice: worth doing, rarely urgent, and --no-info leaves it out. Each finding takes 1 point off the page's score.
The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.
Run it, or skip it
Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:
npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check aeo https://example.com --rule aeo.entity-same-as-missing
Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_aeo_audit:
{
"url": "https://example.com",
"rules": [
"aeo.entity-same-as-missing"
]
}
To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable aeo.entity-same-as-missing on the command, or disableRules: ["aeo.entity-same-as-missing"] to a tool.
More in AI answer engines
All 32 rules- Info
aeo.article-author-incompleteThe article's author is a bare name, without a url or sameAs that identifies the person. - Warning
aeo.article-dates-missingArticle structured data lacks datePublished (warning) or dateModified (info), which tell answer engines how fresh the content is. - Info
aeo.article-date-not-visibleThe article's structured data has a date, but the page shows none. - Info
aeo.organization-missingThe home page has no Organization (or Person) structured data. - Warning
aeo.robots-txt-unreachablerobots.txt answers a server error or does not answer, and crawlers treat that as "crawl nothing" (RFC 9309). - Error
aeo.robots-blocks-search-crawlerrobots.txt blocks a search crawler whose index AI answers draw on: Googlebot (AI Overviews, AI Mode), Bingbot (Copilot) or Applebot (Siri, Spotlight). - Warning
aeo.robots-blocks-answer-botrobots.txt blocks a bot that fetches pages for AI answers or an AI search index (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, DuckAssistBot, MistralAI-User, Amzn-SearchBot, Amzn-User, meta-webindexer, meta-externalfetcher, MistralAI-Index, YandexAdditional). - Info
aeo.robots-blocks-training-botrobots.txt blocks a crawler that collects text to train AI models (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, meta-externalagent, Amazonbot, MistralAI-Training).