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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