prep-site-for-ai

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prep-site-for-ai

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Make a website legible to LLMs, AI search engines, and autonomous agents (structured data (JSON-LD), llms.txt, semantic server-rendered HTML, machine-readable facts, crawler access, and provenance signals) so AI systems quote you correctly instead of skipping or hallucinating about you. Use when prepping a site for AI search / generative engines (GEO), making content agent-readable, exposing facts to LLM crawlers, or fixing why AI tools misrepresent a business. Triggers include "prep my site for AI", "make this AI-readable", "GEO / generative engine optimization", "why does ChatGPT get my business wrong", "add structured data / llms.txt", "is my site crawlable by AI".

Prep a Site for AI

AI search engines, chat assistants, and autonomous agents now read your site and answer for you. If your facts aren't machine-legible, two things happen: the AI skips you, or it guesses, and a guessed fact is a wrong fact attributed to your business. The job here is to make every claim a machine can read directly, trace to a source, and reproduce without inventing anything.

This is a narrower, deeper pass than a general quality audit. It cares about one axis: can a non-human reader extract correct, current facts about you? (For the broad pass, a11y, performance, responsive, etc., use audit-website-quality.)

1. Make the content actually reachable

An AI crawler that can't see your content can't quote it.

• Server-render the facts. Critical content (hours, prices, address, product details) must be in the initial HTML, not painted in later by JavaScript. Many AI crawlers don't execute JS. View source: if the fact isn't there, it doesn't exist to them.
• Don't gate facts behind auth, cookie walls, or "load more" interactions for the parts you want quoted.
• Reachable robots.txt + XML sitemap. Don't block AI user-agents you want to be cited by; do decide deliberately which ones you allow.