Answer engines8 min read

How to show up when buyers ask ChatGPT

Your buyers are asking a model before they ask you, and the model is answering with someone's content. The only question is whose. I spent this year building tools that score exactly how visible a page is to answer engines, and the patterns are consistent enough to act on. This is the part of search most teams still treat as a mystery, so it is wide open.

What this piece covers

  • 01Why AI answers cite some pages and ignore others
  • 02The three signals models actually read: structure, specificity, and freshness
  • 03Auditing your own answer-visibility in an afternoon
  • 04Writing a page so a model can lift a clean, correct quote from it
  • 05Tracking citations, not just rankings

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