Five checks for a page that ranks but never gets cited
The five faults that keep a good page out of AI answers, each with a by-hand check, a command you can run across a site, and the fix.
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Question headings vs. keyword headings
When to phrase a heading as a question, when a keyword label is still the right call, and how to check every heading on a site in one pass.
Answer Engine Optimization: a page-level guide
What happens to a page between fetch and answer, the eight signals answer-readiness turns on, and how to check every one of them by hand and at scale.
How to check whether AI crawlers can actually reach you
Reading robots.txt tells you what you intended. Six checks that tell you what actually happens when an AI crawler requests one of your pages.
The 40–60 word answer block, and how to write one
The highest-weighted answer-readiness signal is a passage that answers its own heading in one breath. What it is, how to write one, how to check it.
Five things that keep a good page out of AI answers
Pages that rank fine and still never get cited usually share the same five faults. Each one is fixable in an afternoon.