The AI Visibility Audit: 15-Minute Checklist for Commerce Brands
Most commerce brands are invisible to AI search engines. This 15-minute audit checks the 8 factors that determine whether ChatGPT and Perplexity can find and cite your content.
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Most commerce brands are invisible to AI search engines. This 15-minute audit checks the 8 factors that determine whether ChatGPT and Perplexity can find and cite your content.
AI search engines don't match keywords — they answer questions. The brands winning AI citations are structuring content around the specific questions their customers actually ask.
Not all schema markup helps with AI search. FAQPage schema earns 2-3x more citations than generic Article schema. Here are the JSON-LD patterns that actually matter for AI visibility.
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot cannot execute JavaScript. If your content loads client-side, you're invisible to AI search. Here's how to diagnose and fix it.
AI search engines don't rank pages. They synthesize answers and cite sources. Their crawlers can't run JavaScript. Understanding this architecture is the first step to earning citations.
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