An assistant can only quote what it can reach and understand. These are the six checks aeoo runs on every page, in the order they tend to get in the way.
1. AI bots can reach it
If robots.txt or the server turns the assistants’ crawlers away, nothing else on the page matters. A page marked noindex is left out too. Check this first, for every crawler that answers questions, not just Google’s.
2. Facts in text, not images
Prices, opening hours and lists of services often live inside pictures. Assistants read text. Put every fact you want repeated on the page as words.
3. Says what it is in structured data
Structured data tells a machine what a page is: a service, an article, a business with an address, a list of questions and answers. It doesn’t replace the words on the page, but it removes the guessing.
4. The answer in the first 100 words
Most of the page’s title should show up again in its first hundred words. If the title says what the page is about and the opening doesn’t, the assistant has to dig. Say it early, in plain words.
“If the first lines don’t say it, the answer won’t either.”
5. Headings that match real questions
Write headings the way buyers ask: “How much does it cost to…”, “Do you work with…”. A heading that matches a question an assistant is answering is the easiest thing on the page to quote.
6. A date that shows it’s current
Assistants prefer pages that look current. Show when the page was published or updated, in the text or in structured data, and keep it true.
Start with the hardest pages
In aeoo, Site health has a Pages for AI view: every page from the latest crawl with the six checks, hardest first, and the one thing in the way for each.
