How to Get AI to Cite Your Content: An Actionable GEO Checklist
AI rewards evidence density, not keywords. Allow AI crawlers, publish llms.txt, open with 40–60 word answer blocks, add cited data, build off-site authority.
Oct 11, 2026
AI rewards evidence density, not keywords. Allow AI crawlers, publish llms.txt, open with 40–60 word answer blocks, add cited data, build off-site authority.
LLMs don't browse the web. They fetch HTML, parse structure, strip boilerplate, chunk, embed it, then retrieve the best chunk with a citation at answer time.
GEO in healthcare and finance is less about whether to do it than whether it breaks rules: YMYL, four medical E-E-A-T elements, finance limits, three red lines.
Google does not penalize AI use, but scaling low-value AI content triggers spam policy. Learn disclosure templates, IPTC metadata, and a 3-red-line self-check.
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