Access
- robots.txt allows OAI-SearchBot
- robots.txt allows PerplexityBot and Claude-SearchBot
- robots.txt allows Googlebot and Bingbot
- Training-crawler policy (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot) decided and documented
- CDN / WAF bot rules do not block or challenge search crawlers
- Live robots.txt matches the intended file (no injected rules)
- XML sitemap referenced in robots.txt and returns 200
- Key pages return 200 without login, geo-block or interstitial
Rendering & technical
- Primary content present in server-rendered HTML
- One canonical URL per page; no conflicting canonicals
- No accidental noindex in meta robots or X-Robots-Tag
- HTTPS everywhere with HSTS
- Core Web Vitals in the “good” range (LCP ≤ 2.5s, INP < 200ms, CLS < 0.1)
- hreflang for each language or market version
- Clean, descriptive URLs and internal links
- llms.txt published with a concise map of key pages
Entity & structured data
- Organization markup with name, URL, logo, description, contact point
- sameAs links to official profiles
- WebSite and BreadcrumbList markup
- Article markup with author, publisher and dates on content
- Product / Offer or Service markup on commercial pages
- Consistent company facts across site, profiles and directories
- About page states what the company does, for whom, and where
- Named experts with credentials on expertise pages
Content & answerability
- Answer-first summaries on key pages
- Clear definitions of category terms
- Honest comparison and alternatives pages
- Pricing information or ranges in HTML
- Use-case and industry pages that state best fit
- Statistics with cited sources
- Original data or research assets
- Concise FAQ sections reflecting real buyer questions
- Dates and update notes on time-sensitive content
- Specs, integrations and security facts outside PDFs
Off-site authority
- Complete, current profiles on the review platforms cited in your category
- Inclusion on the lists and comparisons engines cite for your prompts
- Digital PR producing citable third-party coverage
- Helpful participation in communities engines surface
- Partner and integration directory listings
- Monitoring of inaccurate third-party information with a correction process
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