AEO — Answer Engine Optimization

Robots permissions

Each week we read your robots.txt file and check what it permits each entry on our list of AI bots. A permission is not a visit: whether a page could be fetched, and what the page contains, are separate checks, each shown with its own state. Bots that are blocked or only partly allowed are listed first. If we could not read the file, every bot shows as not read, never as allowed.

Structured Data on Your Home Page

When the weekly check fetches your home page, it also reads the structured data in the page's HTML (JSON-LD, microdata and RDFa). Each check below is reported on its own: valid markup can still state a fact the page does not show, and correct markup can still earn no Google feature. These checks describe the markup. They do not show whether an AI tool reads it, and they are not part of any score.

Page by Page: What to Change

Each card names the page and the edit. In testing, AI tools often lift answers from pages whose headings match the question and whose first sentence answers it. The quickest edits come first.

The Cross-Reference

Every earlier question check started from your prompt list and looked for it on the site, which can only report what is missing from that list. These pages were read the other way round, blind to the prompt list, and only then were the two sets compared. Drift and collision exist only in the gap between the two directions and no coverage percentage surfaces them. Tiles with a dashed border were derived here rather than measured by the audit.

What To Fix, Cheapest First

The order matters more than the list. Steps one and two are editor work on pages that already exist and can ship in two weeks. Commissioning new content is last on purpose.

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Page Answer Profiles

Each page read cold. The quoted passage under every question is the page's own text: the question is our wording and the passage is what an answer engine would lift, so the second one is checkable. A page that yielded no question at all is listed as such rather than left out.

Questions Nothing Answers

Buyer prompts no profiled page claims, at any rank. These are not stored anywhere. They are computed by comparing your live prompt set against what the pages claimed, so the count moves when prompts are added or retired. That is correct: a prompt added after the audit is a question no page was ever read against.

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