Checklist PDF

The AI Search Visibility Checklist

6 Signals That Affect Whether AI Can Cite Your Business

A reference checklist for the structural signals that affect whether AI systems can parse, trust, and cite your business.

Reference edition. Applied diagnosis starts with a live-site review.

What's inside

01

llms.txt Guidance File

  • Does yoursite.com/llms.txt exist?
  • Lists primary services?
  • Links to key pages?
  • Written for machines?
02

FAQ Schema (JSON-LD)

  • Homepage has 3+ FAQ items?
  • Service pages have FAQs?
  • Natural question phrasing?
  • Specific factual answers?
03

Organization & Author Schema

  • Organization JSON-LD?
  • Author Person with sameAs?
  • BreadcrumbList on interior?
04

Passage Independence

  • H2 standalone summaries?
  • Sections self-contained?
  • Descriptive headings?
  • Quotable claims?
05

AI Crawler Directives

  • AI crawlers explicitly handled?
  • Indexing rules reviewed?
  • Critical paths crawlable?
  • Defaults checked?
06

Performance & Stability

  • Mobile performance reviewed?
  • Layout shifts controlled?
  • Media optimized?
  • Key pages stable?

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