Get Cited by AI Search

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name: get-cited-by-ai-search
description: Rewrites your web pages so AI search tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews are more likely to quote and link to you.
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# Get Cited by AI Search

Use this when the user wants their website or content to show up in AI answers.

## What AI search tends to cite

Pages that answer a question directly, clearly, and credibly, in a way that's easy to quote.

## Steps

1. **Pick the questions.** List the 5–10 questions the user's customers ask an AI. Check the
   page actually answers them.
2. **Answer first.** Put a direct 40–60 word answer right under each question-style heading,
   then the detail.
3. **Make it quotable:** short paragraphs, clear definitions ("X is…"), numbered steps,
   comparison tables, and specific numbers with dates and sources.
4. **Show credibility:** a named author with real experience, a last-updated date, original
   data or examples, and links to primary sources.
5. **Make it readable by machines:**
   - Content is in the HTML (not only loaded by JavaScript, or hidden in images or PDFs).
   - Clear headings in order, descriptive titles and meta descriptions.
   - Structured data where it fits (FAQ, HowTo, Article, Product, Organization).
   - robots.txt doesn't block the crawlers the user wants (for example GPTBot,
     PerplexityBot, Google-Extended); it's the user's choice whether to allow them.
6. **Be consistent elsewhere.** The same facts about the business (name, what it does,
   prices) on its own site, profiles, and directories.
7. **Track it.** Ask the target questions in several AI tools every month and note who gets
   cited.

## Output

For each page: the questions it should answer, a rewritten answer-first section, and a
checklist of fixes.