Skip to main content

Ranking top-3 on Google but getting zero ChatGPT mentions built a 25-point self-audit to find out why

I do AI-visibility consulting, and the pattern I see most often is a brand ranking top-three for its commercial terms that still gets cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity basically never. The reason is structural: Google's pipeline is crawl → index → rank, while an AI engine's answer pipeline is closer to retrieve → synthesise → cite. Different machine, different inputs.

I put the audit I run for clients into a 25-point self-assessment so people can score themselves without hiring anyone. Five sections, roughly 20 minutes:

  1. Entity footprint do independent sources describe you consistently?
  2. Off-site presence Reddit is consistently ChatGPT's single most-cited domain; Wikipedia and YouTube follow. Are you in the threads and "best-of" lists?
  3. Extractability can a model lift a clean, self-contained answer from your page? (Question headings get cited at roughly double the rate of statement headings.)
  4. Structured signals Article/Person schema, FAQPage, llms.txt.
  5. Technical access is GPTBot/PerplexityBot quietly blocked in robots.txt or Cloudflare?

The one rule that surprises people: your lowest-scoring section is your priority, not your strongest it's a chain, and a quotable page a crawler can't reach scores zero in practice.

Happy to share the worksheet link if that's allowed here, or paste the full 25 checkpoints in the comments whichever the mods prefer. Curious what section trips most people up.

submitted by /u/aknigam448
[link] [comments]

from The SEO Authority https://ift.tt/dOcgZhT
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Local seo vs. natiowide seo?

I've done SEO for local businesses but I recently got my first client that sells an item nation wide. ​ Any suggestions for doing nationwide SEO? ​ I am used to making geopages for local towns. I was going to do the same with some input from the client about what cities or towns he would like to show up in? submitted by /u/Letmeinterviewyou [link] [comments] from Search Engine Optimization: The Latest SEO News http://bit.ly/2JHy0k0
Post a Comment
Read more

Clients site has a weird issue with 302 redirects that I haven't seen before.

Site is in Drupal, hosted on Amazon CDN & Cloudflare. So here's a quick breakdown: The site itself works normally. It's a bit dated, but you can click on links and navigate around as you'd expect. Seeing no obvious issues, I run a Screaming Frog crawl to begin my audit. Only 5 pages were picked up by the crawl which was super weird, since all internal links are regular html and there shouldn't be any issues. So I go through the site and manually collect a bunch of URLs, which I submit to SF again as a list. Every single link bar the 5 originally crawled return a 302, with the 'redirect' pointing back to the home page. Except as I said, those pages don't browser redirect. Browser side, they work fine. I guess they redirect the crawl bot though, since the rest of the site is functionally invisible. Other tools I've looked at say that the pages return simultaneous 302 and 200s, which doesn't make too much sense. These 302s are also old enough ...
Post a Comment
Read more