Quick Wins
5-Minute Fixes
Start here - these quick changes take little effort:
- Let AI search crawlers fetch your pages (robots.txt)
- Add a meta description
- Add a canonical URL that opens a live page
- Fix missing alt text
- Remove accidental noindex or nosnippet settings
- Add basic Schema.org that matches the page
- Add Open Graph tags
- Improve heading hierarchy
Let AI Search Crawlers Fetch Your Pages
Time: 2 minutes
AI search and assistants can only use pages their crawlers are allowed to open. Search crawlers (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot, Bingbot, Googlebot) and user-fetch crawlers (ChatGPT-User, Perplexity-User, Claude-User) should not be blocked on pages you want found. Training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended and similar) are a separate choice: blocking them does not hide your pages from AI search. This example allows search and declines training:
# robots.txt - allow AI search, decline training (example policy) User-agent: OAI-SearchBot User-agent: Claude-SearchBot User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / Disallow: /admin/ User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: CCBot User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /admin/
Optional: Add llms.txt
Time: 10 minutes
llms.txt is an optional summary file. Google does not use it and no major AI engine is shown to, so your report shows this check as unproven and does not score it. If you want one, create a file at /llms.txt:
# 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
Time: 15 minutes
Add this JSON-LD to your homepage's <head> section, and keep every value in it the same as what visitors see on the page (the Markup Matches Page check compares them):
<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>