Schema markup & AI search guides
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What Is AI Readiness? A Plain-English Definition
AI readiness is whether an AI can read your site and describe your business correctly. What the term means, and how to check where you stand.
Best AI Readiness Checkers 2026: Which One Do You Need
A dozen free AI readiness checkers all give you a score out of 100. Here is how they really differ, and how to pick the one that fits your next step.
Should You Opt Out of Google's AI Overviews?
Google now has a clean opt-out for AI Overviews and AI Mode that leaves your ranking alone. Both levers, what each costs, and who should use them.
Catching Schema That Disappears After a Deploy
Your schema was fine, then a plugin update or a speed setting removed it and nothing said so. What breaks schema at deploy time, and how to get alerted.
A JSON-LD Schema Checklist for WordPress Developers
Build a connected schema graph in a WordPress theme by hand: the Organization, WebSite, Article and Person nodes, where each comes from, and what breaks it.
Migrating Old Microdata and RDFa Markup to Clean JSON-LD
Old sites still carry inline Microdata or RDFa markup. How to inventory it, translate the vocabulary to JSON-LD, and cut over without losing rich results.
How to Check Server Logs for AI Crawlers
Analytics cannot see bots and Search Console only shows Google. Your server log records every AI crawler hit. How to find yours and read it.
The Hidden noindex Tag That Blocks AI
A stray noindex tag or X-Robots-Tag header quietly removes your pages from Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT search. How to find it and clear it.
Fixing Duplicate Schema Markup From Two WordPress Plugins
Two WordPress plugins both emitting schema produces duplicate entities that confuse AI and search. How to spot the conflict and get to one clean source.
AI Readiness vs a Traditional SEO Audit: What's Different
How an AI readiness audit and a traditional SEO audit overlap, where they don't, and why a clean SEO report doesn't mean AI can read your site.
What Moves Your AI Readiness Score, and What Doesn't
A point-by-point look at which fixes raise your AI readiness score, which barely move it, and why page speed and extra schema types do nothing.
How to Run an AI Readiness Audit on Your Site
An AI readiness audit checks whether AI can reach, read, and understand your site. What it inspects, how to read the report, and how to run one yourself.
The AI Readiness Loop: Audit, Fix, Monitor
AI readiness isn't a one-time checklist. It's a loop: audit to find the gaps, fix them in priority order, apply the changes, then monitor for drift.
How to Structure Your About Page for AI Search
Your About page is the page AI systems read to work out who runs your site. How to structure the prose and the schema so they can actually use it.
Auditing Your XML Sitemap for AI Crawler Discovery
Who actually reads your XML sitemap in the AI era, what belongs in it, why the lastmod date has to be honest, and how to audit yours end to end.
dateModified and datePublished: A Freshness Guide for AI
Where datePublished and dateModified live, why your visible date, schema, and sitemap must agree, and how faking freshness backfires with AI search.