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Get your business cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini.

Twenty concrete fixes — schema, content, technical, off-site — that move a brand from invisible to consistently cited in the AI engines your buyers now query. Same list AdMax uses on every $25 audit. Tick the ones you have done. The rest are your next two weeks of work.


01 — Schema

Structured data AI can read.

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    Organization + WebSite JSON-LD

    Root layout. Stable @id, unambiguous description, sameAs links to LinkedIn and Crunchbase.

  • 02

    Service JSON-LD on every service page

    Include hasOfferCatalog with prices when you have transparent pricing.

  • 03

    FAQPage JSON-LD

    On every page with 5+ buyer questions. The H2 is the question; the answer mirrors the on-page copy.

  • 04

    Article + BlogPosting JSON-LD

    Every blog post. Author, datePublished, dateModified, headline, unique image.

  • 05

    BreadcrumbList JSON-LD

    Every non-root page so engines understand site hierarchy.

02 — Content shape

Pages that get extracted, not skipped.

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    Every cornerstone H2 is a buyer question

    If your H2s are nouns (Our Process), models cannot extract anything. Rewrite as questions.

  • 07

    40 to 80 word direct answer first

    Under each question-H2. This is what gets lifted into the synthesis. Long-form depth comes after.

  • 08

    One comparison page per category

    X vs Y, X alternatives, is X worth it. Comparison queries punch above their weight.

  • 09

    Glossary page

    10+ category terms each defined in one paragraph. Engines disproportionately favor glossaries.

  • 10

    Bulleted lists, numbered steps everywhere

    Lists are easier for extractive engines to lift than wall-of-text paragraphs.

03 — Technical

Make sure AI crawlers can reach you.

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    llms.txt at the root

    Five minutes. Immediate effect on Claude and Anthropic-adjacent crawlers. Format: llmstxt.org.

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    robots.txt allows AI bots

    GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot. Blocking any one of them makes you invisible to that engine.

  • 13

    Sitemap with priority weights

    Reflect cornerstone importance. Submit to Search Console.

  • 14

    Core Web Vitals green

    LCP < 2.5s, CLS < 0.1, INP < 200ms on every cornerstone.

  • 15

    Canonical tags everywhere

    Absolute URL, every page. Duplicate canonical = ambiguous citation source.

04 — Off-site

Earn the trust signals.

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    5 to 10 third-party mentions in 90 days

    Trade press, podcast transcripts, GitHub READMEs, association directories, Reddit threads, niche wikis.

  • 17

    Wikipedia or Wikidata entry

    With cited third-party sources. The single highest-leverage knowledge-graph move.

  • 18

    Complete LinkedIn Company page

    Same description, same logo, same URL as your site. Profile mismatches confuse models.

  • 19

    Track citations weekly

    Search Atlas, Profound, or Otterly. Without measurement you cannot iterate.

  • 20

    Internal linking discipline

    Every new piece of content links to two cornerstones plus your primary CTA.


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