On-Page Readiness Guide: Evaluating Website AI Readability
By ADV Strategy Pro · AEO Research Team · Last updated:
The On-Page Readiness Guide is a free guide, not an automated scanner, and it gives no score. It describes six areas that affect how readable your website is to AI systems — Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and other answer engines — and how to improve each one. No citation or ranking result is promised.
What the Guide Covers
The guide walks through six review areas that affect whether AI systems can parse your content.
Schema Coverage
Review areaReview your JSON-LD: Organization, Product, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, HowTo, and Article schemas. Structured data helps AI systems understand entity relationships.
Content Structure
Review areaReview direct-answer formatting. Do your first 50 words answer the target query? Are headings hierarchical? Does the content follow a question-answer pattern?
Semantic Density
Review areaReview whether sentences are entity-rich, with clear Subject-Predicate-Object statements that make factual claims easy to extract.
FAQ Coverage
Review areaCheck for explicit FAQ sections with FAQPage schema markup that answer real buyer questions.
Internal Linking
Review areaReview topical cluster connectivity. Pages linked in logical hierarchies help crawlers navigate your site.
Technical Signals
Review areaPage speed, mobile-friendliness, HTTPS, crawlability, and Core Web Vitals.
How to Improve Each Area
1. Schema Coverage
Consider JSON-LD schema types that match your content: Organization (with sameAs links to social profiles), Product or Service (with offers), FAQPage (3-5 questions per key page), and BreadcrumbList (on every page). Use Google's Rich Results Test to validate.
2. Content Structure
Lead every page with a direct-answer paragraph — the first 50 words should answer the page's target query without preamble. Use H2/H3 headings in logical hierarchy. Break content into scannable sections. AI Overviews extract the first clear answer they find.
3. Semantic Density
Write entity-rich sentences using Subject-Predicate-Object structure. Instead of 'We offer great services,' write 'ADV Strategy Pro delivers AEO-optimized landing pages for SaaS companies.' Every sentence should contain at least one named entity and one specific claim.
4. FAQ Coverage
Add an FAQ section with FAQPage schema to every high-intent page. Use questions that match real search queries (check Google Search Console for inspiration). Answer each question in 2-3 sentences — concise enough for AI extraction, detailed enough to be useful.
5. Internal Linking
Build topical clusters: one pillar page linked to 5-8 supporting pages. Use descriptive anchor text ('AEO vs SEO comparison' not 'click here'). AI crawlers follow internal links to map your site's knowledge graph. Pages with zero internal links are orphaned from AI discovery.
6. Technical Signals
Achieve Largest Contentful Paint under 2.5 seconds. Pass Core Web Vitals on all pages. Ensure mobile-friendly rendering (Google's AI crawlers use mobile-first indexing). Submit an XML sitemap with lastmod dates. Fix all crawl errors in Google Search Console.
What a Readiness Check Can and Cannot Tell You
The On-Page Readiness Guide is a checklist, not a scanner, and it gives no score. It helps you review your own pages. Results and timing vary by site, scope and search engine and are not promised.
Structured data
Clear and consistent
Clear structured data helps AI systems understand your brand; no citation is promised.
Crawl access
Checked by you
Check that robots.txt, sitemap and page speed let crawlers reach your pages.
Schema indexing
Varies
Search engines reflect markup at their own pace.
Measurement
Your own baseline
Track citations, visits and conversions against your own baseline.
Open the On-Page Readiness Guide — Free
Open the guide — no signup required — for practical recommendations for each review area. It is a guide, not an automated scanner; a scanner is in development.