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Gate two of four

A model does not read your page. It lifts sentences out of it.

The second gate is about how your pages are written. A model looking for an answer takes a paragraph, drops it into a reply, and moves on. If your paragraph only makes sense after the one above it, it cannot be used, however good it is.

Pilly at a blackboard reading "What we do", teaching a class of AI logos
Paragraphs that stand on their own
3 / 48
Questions your site answers
2 / 19
Facts a model cannot invent
0 / 6

Why this one decides the rest

Most business websites are written to be read top to bottom by someone who has already decided to be there. The answer arrives in paragraph six, after the story about the founders. A model reads the opening lines and leaves.

The fix is not more words. It is putting the answer first, writing headings as the questions people actually type, and stating the things a model cannot invent for you: prices, areas, response times, hours.

  • Sentences, not pages A model lifts the paragraph that answers the question, not the page around it.
  • The answer goes first A long build-up buries the part that would have been quoted.
  • Your words, not your trade's Buyers type what they want. Most sites name what they sell.
  • Not more words This is eight pages rewritten, not eighty pages published.

What this looks like in your report

The panels below are a worked example, run against a roofing company in Columbus, Ohio we made up for the purpose. Yours arrives with your own answers, word for word.

What the page says most often

Home and services

A model lifts sentences. It can only lift the ones you wrote.

  • "quality you can trust"

    11

  • "family owned since 1998"

    7

  • "flat roof replacement in Columbus"

    0

  • A price, a range, or a call-out fee

    0

What the page says most often, in times on the page
"quality you can trust" 11 times on the page
"family owned since 1998" 7 times on the page
"flat roof replacement in Columbus" 0 times on the page
A price, a range, or a call-out fee 0 times on the page
Where the answer sits

Six pages read

A model reads the opening of a page and moves on. The answer arriving in paragraph six is the answer nobody quotes.

  • What you do

    paragraph 6

  • Where you work

    paragraph 8

  • What it costs

    never

  • How fast you answer

    never

Where the answer sits
What you do answered in paragraph 6 of 9
Where you work answered in paragraph 8 of 9
What it costs never answered
How fast you answer never answered

What we check and fix here · 8 of 21

  1. 05

    We put the answer at the start, not the end.

    A model reads the first lines of a page and moves on. If your answer is in paragraph six, it never gets there.

    › answer-first structure

  2. 06

    We turn your headings into the questions people actually ask.

    "Emergency roof repair, same day" is a heading. "Do you do emergency roof repairs?" is a question someone types.

    › question-form headings

  3. 07

    We make every paragraph make sense on its own.

    A model lifts a paragraph out of your page and drops it into an answer. If it only makes sense after the one above it, it can't be used.

    › self-contained passages

  4. 08

    We replace "ask for a quote" with real numbers.

    Price ranges, response times, service areas, hours. An AI can't recommend what it can't state.

    › concrete qualifying facts

  5. 09

    We write the service and the place in ordinary words, in the text.

    Not in a hidden tag. In the sentence a person would say out loud.

    › service x location in body copy

  6. 10

    We bring the questions you get on the phone onto the site.

    The ten things every customer asks before booking. Written as questions, answered in two lines each.

    › FAQ blocks and FAQPage markup

  7. 11

    We keep a few real location pages, not fifty fake ones.

    Thin duplicated city pages are ignored at best. Two genuine ones beat forty generated ones.

    › location pages

  8. 12

    We write one description of your business and repeat it identically everywhere.

    Site, profile, directories, socials. When the sources disagree, the model picks one, and it may not pick yours.

    › entity consistency

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The free report scores all four gates and shows you the answers word for word, with the sources each one was built from.

Your services page rather than your homepage, if you have one. That's the page an AI reads when someone asks what you sell.

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