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ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google can now answer a question right on the results page. A free 27-point checklist, every item tied to Google, OpenAI or Perplexity documentation, to help your small site become a source they can quote. No hacks.

Eligibility. The three conditions Google says a page must meet to appear in its answer features.¹

1 developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features

Crawler access. Which bots to allow (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot) and which are only for training.^2,3

2 platform.openai.com/docs/bots
3 docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots

What to skip. llms.txt, chunking, fake mentions, per Google's own mythbusting.

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My key pages are indexed and snippet-eligible.¹ robots.txt allows OAI-SearchBot.² robots.txt allows PerplexityBot.³ Important content is in text, not just images.¹

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