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AI-readiness guides

Plain-English guides to getting understood, mentioned, and cited by AI engines. Start with the concepts, work through the technical signals each maps to a check in your Free Scan report, then go deeper on earning citations and measuring what changes.

Understand AI search

What is AEO? AI search vs traditional SEO
The plain-English version of answer engines, AEO and GEO, and why being cited beats ranking.
How AI engines find and answer with your content
Retrieval, grounding, and citations, explained in plain English, and why structure matters.
AI citations vs backlinks
Why being cited in an answer is the new currency, and what the research says earns it.
AI search glossary
Short, plain-English definitions for the AEO, GEO, and AI-search terms you will run into.

Letting AI in

AI crawler access (robots.txt)
How to let the major AI crawlers read the pages your buyers ask about.
Content Signals (robots.txt)
Declaring how AI systems may use your content for search, input, and training.
Crawler reachability
Keeping your key content readable without JavaScript and fast to fetch.

Helping engines map your site

llms.txt
Giving engines a simple, AI-readable map of your identity and proof pages.
llms.txt content quality
Making your llms.txt substantive enough for engines to actually use.
Markdown page variants
Serving clean text-first versions of your key pages for AI crawlers.
HTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)
Helping agents discover your canonical, sitemap, and AI-readable variants.

Telling engines who you are

JSON-LD structured data
Carrying your entity, audience, offer, and FAQ story in schema.org JSON-LD.
Schema entity coverage
Extending schema coverage to the Service and FAQ types engines look for.

Getting found and staying fresh

XML sitemap
Giving crawlers a reliable map of the pages you want AI to cite.
Content freshness (dateModified)
Showing engines your proof is current with accurate last-updated signals.
IndexNow
Pushing new and changed pages to Bing quickly so your freshness shows up.
DNS for AI Discovery (DNS-AID)
Letting AI agents discover your site from signed DNS, before they load a page.

Page speed

Basic page speed (LCP estimate)
Keeping first paint fast, so crawlers fetch your homepage easily and Search quality holds up.
Full page speed (Lighthouse + Core Web Vitals)
Passing the full Lighthouse run, LCP, CLS, and blocking time, a documented Search quality and crawl-efficiency signal.

Earn more citations

Authority and proof signals (E-E-A-T for AI)
How to look like a source worth trusting, and what E-E-A-T really is (and isn't).
Writing content AI can quote
Structure your pages so an engine can lift a clean, self-contained answer, and cite you.

Measure and apply

Measuring your AI visibility
What to actually track when you want to know if AI engines mention and cite you.
How to show up in ChatGPT and AI answers
A practical playbook that ties the technical and strategy guides into one path.

Engine playbooks

How to show up in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode
What Google actually says gets you into its AI answers, and the myths it tells you to skip.
How Gemini finds and cites your content
Gemini can ground its answers in Google Search, so the Search basics carry over, plus the one robots.txt line that quietly opts you out.
Getting cited in Perplexity
Perplexity runs two crawlers with different rules; get the right one in, then be worth quoting.
How to show up in Microsoft Copilot
Copilot runs on Bing, so being in Bing's index is most of the battle, plus a free way to check if it's working.