Cite
Answer and generative engine optimisation
Is a page that can already rank eligible to be cited by AI answers?
The layer on top of the ladder, applied alongside ranking and never instead of it. Self-contained answer blocks, question-shaped headings, consistent entities, genuine attribution and AI crawler access. Citation is never guaranteed; this makes a page eligible.
Paste into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any agent that can open a link. If yours cannot, use Copy full text.
Reach for it when you say
- “AI Overviews”
- “Get cited by ChatGPT”
- “AEO or GEO”
- “llms.txt”
Installed as a skill, it triggers on requests like these by itself.
- Step 01Diagnose answerability, entities, attribution and AI crawler access
- Step 02Fix the formatting and the signals the owned site controls
- Step 03Verify on the rendered output
- Step 04Report, with an honest handoff on what only live data can tell you
Three modes, three ways in
Run it in audit mode first: it records findings and changes nothing. Then fix applies only the findings you approve, and re-check re-tests them later. Switch modes on the prompt above.
- 01Paste the link promptOne line that points your agent at the skill on GitHub. Nothing to install, always the latest version.
- 02Paste the full textFor agents that cannot open links. The skill is self-contained, so this works in any chat.
- 03Install the packInstalled as skills, it triggers by itself when you describe the problem, and can hand work to the other skills.
The files
Questions about this skill?
Ask me on LinkedIn, or open an issue on GitHub if something is wrong or missing.