How to fix every problem in your AI readiness report
One guide for each problem our check can find, with every step shown. Most of them take a few minutes, and many are fixed for you once your site is connected.
How common each problem is comes from the latest check of 73 different sites (90 days to 9 October 2026).
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Connect your site
The free check works on any site. To put fixes on your live pages, connect your site once: a plugin on WordPress, a package on Next.js, or one piece of code you paste in on Wix, Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow and anything else.
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Can AI find and reach your site?
Pages could not be loaded
Some of your pages gave an error or took too long when our check tried to open them. An AI tool that hits the same error has nothing to read, and broken pages are something only your website can put right.
Your site has no sitemap
Your site has no sitemap. A sitemap is the list of your pages that you hand to a crawler. Without one, an AI tool finds only the pages it happens to reach by following links.
Pages are empty until JavaScript runs
Some of your pages arrive almost empty and only fill in once scripts run in a browser. Many AI crawlers do not run scripts, so to them these pages look blank. This one needs a developer.
Your site has no llms.txt file
An llms.txt file is a short, plain guide to your site for AI tools: your name, a one-line summary and the pages worth reading. It is optional and does not affect your score. On a connected site we build and publish it for you.
Your structured data only appears after JavaScript runs
Your structured data is not in the page a crawler downloads. A script, usually a tag manager, adds it afterwards. Anything that reads the page without running scripts sees none of it. Markup delivered by AI Schema Gen is in the page itself.
Read
Can AI read your pages?
Pages are mostly navigation and footer
On some of your pages, most of the words are the menu and the footer. Very little is the page saying something of its own, so there is not much for an AI tool to read or quote.
Pages have headings that skip levels
On some of your pages the headings skip levels, for example from the main heading straight to a third-level one. Headings are how an AI tool works out which parts of a page belong together.
Images have no description
Many of your images have no written description (alt text). A description is the only thing a text-based AI can read from a picture. Your dashboard gives you the full list of images to fix.
Pages have no sharing preview details
Some of your pages do not set the title, description and image used when the page is shared or quoted somewhere else. Those three details are also a short statement of what the page is, written by you.
Pages have no description
Some of your pages have no short description. A description gives an AI tool a ready-made summary of the page, in your words, instead of leaving it to invent one.
Pages have no main heading
Some of your pages have no main heading. The main heading is the clearest single statement of what a page is about, and without it an AI tool has to work that out from the rest of the text.
Pages do not say which address is the real one
The same page can often be reached at several addresses. Your pages do not say which one is the real one, or worse, name a different website as the original. On Next.js sites one click in Fixes turns the right setting on.
Pages do not say what language they are in
Some of your pages do not state what language they are written in. One short setting tells every machine which language to read the page as, instead of leaving it to guess.
Pages have no page title
Some of your pages have no page title. The title is the one line that names the page everywhere it is listed, quoted or cited, including by AI tools.
Pages are telling crawlers to ignore them
Some of your pages carry an instruction telling crawlers not to list them. AI tools and search engines that respect it will skip those pages. It is almost always left on by accident.
Understand
Can AI tell who you are?
Your site does not state the basics about your business
The basics of your business, what kind of business it is, its name, its logo and its website, are not stated in the part of your site written for machines. Setting them once in Business Identity puts them on your pages as data.
Your legal business details are missing
Your site does not state the registered name of your business or the date it was founded, in a form machines can read. Both take a minute to add in Business Identity.
Your site names no people and no service area
Nothing on your site states, as data, who runs the business or where it works. Adding a founder and your service area (or your company number, for businesses that are not local) covers both.
Your site does not state what subjects you work in
Nothing on your site states, in a form machines can read, which subjects your business works in. Adding a handful of topics is quick, and it is what gets you considered for questions about those subjects.
Your site does not link itself to your profiles elsewhere
Your site does not tell machines which profiles and listings elsewhere are yours: your LinkedIn page, your Google Business Profile, your directory listings. Adding those links is the strongest single way to show who you are.
Your contact details are not in a form machines can read
Your phone number, email or address may be on your site for visitors, but not in the part written for machines. Adding them once in Business Identity puts them on your pages as data an AI tool can quote.
Your site has no about page, contact page, privacy policy or terms page
Our check could not find one or more of the four pages that show a real business stands behind a website: about, contact, privacy and terms. Writing them is a job for your website, and once they are live we mark them up so machines know what each one is.
Pages carry no structured information at all
Some of your pages have no structured data at all, so an AI tool has only the wording to go on. On WordPress and Next.js sites, one button on the Fixes page adds the right markup to every one of them.
References point at something that does not exist
Parts of your structured data point at something, often your business, your website or an author, that is never actually described anywhere on your site. Rebuilding the markup on those pages makes every pointer lead somewhere real.
Entries have no permanent identifier
Your structured data describes your business, your website or a person without giving it a fixed name that other pages can point back at. Rebuilding the markup on those pages gives each one a permanent identifier.
Entries are missing information that type normally carries
Some entries in your structured data leave out a detail that kind of entry is expected to have, such as a product with no price details or an article that does not say who published it. Rebuilding the markup on those pages fills it in.
Entries are described but never referred to
Your structured data describes something, usually your business, a person or a product, that no other part of your site ever points to. Rebuilding the markup on those pages links each one into the rest.
Pages describe only the page furniture, not the business
Some of your pages have structured data, but only the kind that describes the page itself, such as the breadcrumb trail. Nothing on them says who you are or what you offer. Adding your business details fills that in.
Your business name, phone, address or website is given different ways
Different pages of your site state your business name, phone number, address or website address in different ways. A machine cannot tell which is current. Saving one version in Business Identity puts the same details on every page.
Things are described two different ways
Two pages use the same identifier for something but disagree about what it is or what it is called. A machine cannot tell which version to trust. Rebuilding the markup on those pages makes them agree.
Answer
Can AI answer questions about you?
An AI could not answer basic questions about your business
An AI read your homepage and could not say what you do, where you are, who runs the business or how to reach you. The fix is to say those things plainly, in the right place on the page.
Answers were read out of your wording, not stated as fact
An AI answered questions about your business correctly, but only by reading between the lines of your text. Nothing in your structured data confirms those answers. Adding the same facts in Business Identity makes them certain.
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