optimize-for-ai_skill

Overview

This skill helps you optimize content to be cited by AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews) rather than just ranked in traditional search results. It focuses on citation architecture, E-E-A-T signals, entity building, and extractable content structures so your pages are more likely to appear in AI-generated answers. Use it when you want AI systems to quote or reference your site directly.

How this skill works

The skill inspects page structure, content extractability, authority signals, freshness, and entity clarity against an AI citation scoring framework. It checks for core elements: immediate answers after headings, tables and lists for data, named sources and dates, author credentials, schema.org markup, and robots.txt visibility to AI crawlers. It produces actionable recommendations and a prioritized checklist to raise your AI visibility score.

When to use it

• You want your content cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews.
• You’re preparing comparison, how-to, research, or explainer pages for AI extraction.
• You need an audit to identify why competitors are cited more often by AI.
• You’re building brand entity signals (schema, sameAs, profiles) for AI recognition.
• You must ensure AI crawlers are not blocked and content is renderable without heavy JS.

Best practices

• Put the concise answer or definition in the first sentence after each heading (X is Y format).
• Use HTML tables for comparisons and data; include TL;DR summary boxes near the top.
• Include named sources, publication dates, and brief methodology for any statistics or studies.
• Add author bios with credentials and Organization/Person schema with sameAs links.
• Keep key pages updated and visible to AI crawlers (check robots.txt for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot).

Example use cases

• Transform a product comparison into a top-cited resource by adding a summary table and explicit winner statement.
• Convert a long tutorial into an AI-friendly how-to by listing the complete steps up front with time/difficulty.
• Turn a vague blog claim into a quotable statistic by adding source, date, and exact numbers.
• Audit a site to find entity gaps and implement schema, About page improvements, and cross-platform consistency.
• Prepare original research for maximum AI citation by including key findings, methodology, and HTML tables.