Readiness quiz · No. 05 / 13
Section 3: Can you distinguish technical, content and source problems?
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7. Have you checked access to your important pages?
Evidence to locate: URL-level test results, relevant crawler or server evidence, and remediation tickets.
OpenAI explicitly separates OAI-SearchBot, used for search, from GPTBot, used for potential model training; their permissions can be managed independently. A blanket instruction to “allow every AI bot” is therefore not the purchasing standard used here. (developers.openai.com)
8. Is your product information useful, current and consistent?
Evidence to locate: A buying-question-to-page map and dated product-fact register.
Google says established SEO practices remain relevant to AI Overviews and AI Mode, and that no special AI text file or schema is required for inclusion. Treat claims that a particular “AI-ready” file is mandatory for these Google features sceptically. (developers.google.com)
9. Can you investigate competitor citations without inventing causation?
Evidence to locate: A competitor citation map connecting prompt → answer → cited page → relevant claim.
Buyer instruction: Request a testable explanation of a gap. Do not accept “competitors appear on this site, therefore buying a placement will make assistants recommend us” as a demonstrated mechanism.
Section 3 score: 0 / 9 (0 of 3 answered)
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Sources cited on this page
- developers.openai.com developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
- developers.google.com developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features