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Is your site easy to quote?

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Answer engines quote pages that are open to them, built around a clear question and signed by someone real. Tick what is true of your site today and get a score, plus the three fixes worth making first.

Mark what is true

Think of your most important page, or your site as a whole. Tick a check only if it is true everywhere that matters.

Can it be read?

1 A page that cannot be indexed cannot be quoted.

2 Blocking them on purpose is fine for training, but it also hides you from answers.

3 Text is what gets read, matched and lifted into an answer.

Is it quotable?

4 A single named topic makes the page easy to match to a question.

5 A heading that is a question tells a reader where the answer starts.

6 A short direct answer is easy to quote; a long preamble is not.

7 Facts that live far from their subject get separated from it.

Is it trustworthy?

8 A named person with a visible background is a stronger source than an unsigned page.

9 It lets a reader or a machine tell who stands behind the site.

10 Out-of-date pages are a poor choice to quote.

11 Linking to the original shows where a claim came from.

Is the markup honest?

12 Markup that describes things the page does not show is a liability, not a boost.

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How the score reads

0 to 4. Something basic is in the way. Start with access: if a page cannot be fetched and read, nothing else matters.

5 to 8. The foundations are there. The gains now come from page shape and from making the people behind the site visible.

9 to 12. Your pages are easy to quote. Keep the dates honest and keep the sources current.

Two guides go deeper: how to structure a page around the question and how to show who stands behind it.

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