Quick Wins
Focus on impact: These fixes typically improve your AEO score by 10-25 points
and can be implemented in under an hour.
5-Minute Fixes
Start here - these quick changes have immediate impact with minimal effort:
Instant Wins
- Allow AI bots in robots.txt (+5-15 pts)
- Add meta description (+3-5 pts)
- Add canonical URL (+2-3 pts)
- Fix missing alt text (+3-8 pts)
15-30 Minutes
- Create llms.txt file (+5-10 pts)
- Add basic Schema.org (+8-15 pts)
- Add Open Graph tags (+3-5 pts)
- Improve heading hierarchy (+3-5 pts)
Allow AI Bots in robots.txt
Impact: +5-15 points | Time: 2 minutes
Add these entries to your robots.txt file to allow AI crawlers:
# Allow AI Crawlers User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / User-agent: Claude-Web Allow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Allow: / User-agent: Bingbot Allow: /
Check existing rules: Make sure you don't have "Disallow: /" rules that
would block these bots. Specific Allow rules should come after any general Disallow rules.
Create llms.txt
Impact: +5-10 points | Time: 10 minutes
Create a file at /llms.txt with information specifically for AI systems:
# Your Company Name > A brief description of what your company/site does ## About Your company provides [products/services]. We specialize in [key areas]. ## Key Pages - Homepage: https://example.com/ - Products: https://example.com/products/ - About Us: https://example.com/about/ - Contact: https://example.com/contact/ ## Topics We Cover - Topic 1 - Topic 2 - Topic 3 ## Contact - Email: contact@example.com - Support: https://example.com/support/ ## Content Guidelines - Our content is factual and regularly updated - Last reviewed: [Date] - For the most current information, please visit our website
Add Basic Schema.org Markup
Impact: +8-15 points | Time: 15 minutes
Add this JSON-LD to your homepage's <head> section:
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@graph": [
{
"@type": "Organization",
"@id": "https://example.com/#organization",
"name": "Your Company Name",
"url": "https://example.com",
"logo": {
"@type": "ImageObject",
"url": "https://example.com/logo.png"
},
"description": "Brief description of your company",
"sameAs": [
"https://twitter.com/yourcompany",
"https://linkedin.com/company/yourcompany"
]
},
{
"@type": "WebSite",
"@id": "https://example.com/#website",
"url": "https://example.com",
"name": "Your Site Name",
"publisher": {"@id": "https://example.com/#organization"}
}
]
}
</script>
For Blog Posts / Articles
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "Your Article Title",
"description": "Article description",
"author": {
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Author Name"
},
"datePublished": "2024-01-15",
"dateModified": "2024-01-20",
"publisher": {
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Your Company",
"logo": {
"@type": "ImageObject",
"url": "https://example.com/logo.png"
}
}
}
</script>