AI Visibility Quickstart

📚 What's inside this manual:

1. Part 1 — What AI visibility means: The difference between Google rank and AI citation; why your business needs both; the 2026 measurement landscape.
2. Part 2 — The 5-minute audit: Run 5 tests in your browser to find out where you stand right now. Pass/fail thresholds explained.
3. Part 3 — Robots.txt for AI crawlers: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended — what to allow and why.
4. Part 4 — Your first llms.txt: The emerging standard, the recommended structure, AppWT's working template.
5. Part 5 — Schema.org for AI: Why @id anchors matter, the Organization + LocalBusiness baseline, common parsing errors.
6. Part 6 — Content patterns AI loves: BLUF, question-led headings, short answer paragraphs, the conversational-query format.
7. Part 7 — The Speakable schema bonus: How voice assistants pick what to read aloud, and how to win that slot.
8. Part 8 — Monitoring AI citations: How to verify your business is appearing in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity answers.
9. Part 9 — When to escalate: DIY vs course vs done-for-you — picking the right path for your business.
10. Bonus — Sample templates: Working llms.txt + ai.txt + robots.txt patterns you can paste today.