Plan aeo readiness

Skill kensaurus/cursor-kenji/skills/plan-aeo-readiness

Audit a site for answer-engine and generative-engine visibility (citation by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, AI Overviews), then produce a phased improvement plan. Use when the user says "AEO", "GEO", "show up in ChatGPT/Perplexity", "AI search visibility", "llms.txt", "am I blocking AI crawlers", or wants discoverability beyond classic search. Audits AI-crawler access, SSR vs JS-hidden content, llms.txt, structured schema, and direct-answer-first structure. Plan only until approved. Pairs with enhance-web-seo, docs-writer, plan-antislop. Do NOT use for Core Web Vitals alone (enhance-web-seo).From its SKILL.md

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Answer-Engine Readiness Audit + Citation Plan

Role: Senior growth engineer + content strategist (AEO/GEO lens).

Task: Confirm AI crawler access first, audit content extractability and authority levers per key page, phase remediations, emit plan-aeo-readiness.md. Audit & plan only — no robots.txt, schema, or copy edits until approved.

Find why AI engines don't cite you. Plan the fix. Change nothing until approved.

Ranking #1 on Google no longer buys an AI citation. Overlap between top Google links and AI-cited sources has dropped from ~70% to below 20%. LLM-referred visitors convert markedly better than classic search traffic (~4.4x in one 2026 analysis).

This skill targets LLM citation — distinct from SERP rank (enhance-web-seo).

When this fires

Trigger phrases: "do AI engines cite me", "AEO", "GEO", "answer engine optimization", "show up in ChatGPT/Perplexity", "AI search visibility", "llms.txt", "am I blocking AI crawlers".

Do not fire for: classic Google ranking or Core Web Vitals alone (enhance-web-seo). For Google AI Overviews, classic ranking is still often a prerequisite — note and hand that layer to enhance-web-seo.

The audit

A · Can AI even read the site?

robots.txt — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended allowed?
CDN / Cloudflare — default now blocks AI bots; verify if site is behind it.
SSR vs JS-hidden — content behind client JS/login/paywall can't be cited.
llms.txt — present? Recommend describing site structure for AI systems.

B · Extractable & answer-shaped?

Direct-answer-first — concise answer before context.
Heading hierarchy — H1→H2→H3, one topic per section.
Schema markup — FAQ, HowTo, Product, Review, Speakable JSON-LD valid.
Sub-query coverage — answers likely fan-out sub-questions.

C · Citable / authoritative? (Princeton GEO levers)

Expert quotes / attribution (~+41% citation probability).
Statistics & data (~+30%).
Inline citations to authoritative sources (~+30%).
No keyword stuffing (~-9%); hand AI-slop copy to plan-antislop.

D · Entity & consensus (advisory)

Brand consistency across crawled sources; platform presence gaps. Note only.

E · Measurability

Baseline citation monitoring across engines recommended.

Procedure

Crawl-access first (A) — blocked bots = finding #1.
Audit content shape & authority (B, C) per key page.
Note entity/measurability (D, E).
Score by impact × effort.
Emit plan-aeo-readiness.md. End the turn.

Guardrails

Plan only. No robots.txt, schema, or copy edits.
Access before optimization.
Don't promise rankings — frame as citation frequency, not fixed rank.
Authenticity over gaming — real expertise, not manufactured quote-stuffing.
Cross-hand copy to plan-antislop.

Report template — `plan-aeo-readiness.md`

# Answer-Engine Readiness Audit — <site>

_Audit-only. Nothing changes until each phase is approved._

## Scope
- Pages/routes audited: …  | Behind Cloudflare/CDN: ☐

## Verdict
| Area | Status | Worst gap |
|------|--------|-----------|
| AI crawler access | ❌ | GPTBot blocked |
| Content extractability | partial | answers buried |
| Authority levers | weak | no stats/quotes |

## Findings
| # | Page | Gap | Lever | Sev | Direction |
|---|------|-----|-------|-----|-----------|

## Phased burndown
- **Phase 1 — Unblock & expose** → `enhance-web-seo` — robots, CDN, SSR, llms.txt
- **Phase 2 — Structure & schema** → `enhance-web-seo` — direct-answer-first, JSON-LD
- **Phase 3 — Authority levers** → `docs-writer` — stats, quotes, citations
- **Phase 4 — Entity/measure (advisory)** → off-site + monitoring baseline

## Execution handoff
Set citation-monitoring baseline before/after so improvement is measured.

Chains with

Launch gates loop — growth/discoverability; run alongside plan-mobile-readiness.
enhance-web-seo — classic ranking underpins AI Overviews.
plan-antislop — generic copy suppresses citation.
Execution: enhance-web-seo, docs-writer, enhance-web-landing.
Verify: prompt-test target queries across engines before/after.

Plan with a strong model; execute with composer-2.5-execution.mdc.

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