15 mistakes that make your website invisible to ChatGPT and generative AI

Most hosting providers and security plugins block GPTBot by default. Check your robots.txt and add "User-agent: GPTBot / Allow: /".

Same issue as GPTBot. If you block these bots, Claude and Perplexity can't cite you. Allow anthropic-ai and PerplexityBot.

Without llms.txt, AIs have to guess what your site does. Create an llms.txt file at your domain root describing your business.

FAQPage schemas are the most citable format for AIs. Add structured Q&A in JSON-LD on your main pages.

AIs prefer short paragraphs (30-50 words) with questions in H2. A 3000-word article without structure is unusable by AI.

EEAT requires an author page with bio, expertise and photo. Without an identified author, AIs consider your content less trustworthy.

Legal notices, terms of service and privacy policy are trust signals. AIs check them to evaluate credibility.

The sitemap helps robots (Google AND AI) discover all your pages. Without a sitemap, some pages remain invisible.

If your site is available in multiple languages, hreflang tags prevent confusion between FR and EN versions.

AIs can't "see" your images. The alt attribute describes the image for search engines and AI assistants.

A site without HTTPS is considered untrustworthy by Google AND AIs. SSL certificate is free with Let's Encrypt.

Meta description should be 150-160 characters and clearly summarize the page content. AIs use it to understand your page.

Organization schema in JSON-LD tells AIs who you are: name, address, contact, logo. It's a fundamental EEAT signal.

AIs prefer to cite content that itself cites sources. Add links to authoritative sources in your articles.

You can't improve what you don't measure. Use a tool like RadarLLM to know your score and track progress.