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What an audit finds.

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Finding type 01

Blocked AI crawlers

The problem

A single line in robots.txt can disallow GPTBot or OAI-SearchBot, making a site unreadable to ChatGPT search entirely. Almost nobody chooses this — it arrives with a plugin default or a security config, and no one checks it again.

The fix

We check twelve AI crawler agents by name and tell you exactly which are blocked and which lines to change. It's usually a ten-minute job with immediate effect.

Check Typical before After the fix
GPTBot Disallowed Allowed
OAI-SearchBot Not mentioned Explicitly allowed
PerplexityBot Disallowed Allowed
llms.txt 404 Published
Finding type 02

Nothing worth quoting

The problem

Language models lift short, direct answers that sit under clear headings. Marketing pages written as continuous prose give them nothing to extract, so the citation goes to whoever wrote plainly — often a smaller competitor with a worse product.

The fix

We restructure your highest-intent pages so each heading is followed by a direct 40–60 word answer, add FAQ and article schema, and write new assets for the questions you're absent from.

Check Typical before After the work
Direct answers under headings None Every key page
FAQPage schema Absent On all service pages
Named authors None Bios with sameAs links
Pages a model can cite 0–2 Growing monthly
Finding type 03

No entity to trust

The problem

Models cite sources they have learned to trust. An empty sameAs array, no named authors, and no third-party coverage leave nothing tying your brand to a citable entity — so even well-structured pages get passed over.

The fix

We build the entity: author profiles that corroborate each other, directory and review-platform presence, original data worth citing, and third-party editorial placement — the strongest signal available.

Check Typical before After the work
sameAs entries Empty Linked profiles
Named authors 0 Real bios
Third-party mentions None found Placed and tracked
Original citable data None Published

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