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1ppears in an AI answer that the user never clicked, you need to probe the LLM with target questions — that's exactly what ThoughtForge's AI Citation Probe does weekly."}],children:[e.jsx("h2",{children:"The shift in one sentence"}),e.jsxs("p",{children:["Search used to send you the 10 best pages. AI now sends you one synthesized answer — composed from 3 to 8 pages — and the user rarely clicks through. Showing up ",e.jsx("em",{children:"inside"})," the answer is the new ranking."]}),e.jsx("h2",{children:"What still matters from Pre-AI SEO"}),e.jsxs("ul",{children:[e.jsx("li",{children:"Crawlability and clean HTML"}),e.jsx("li",{children:"Title tag, meta description, canonical URL"}),e.jsx("li",{children:"Internal linking and topical authority"}),e.jsx("li",{children:"Page speed and Core Web Vitals"}),e.jsx("li",{children:"Schema markup (Article, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList)"})]}),e.jsx("p",{children:"Skip these and no AI engine will ever consider your page. They're the floor, not the ceiling."}),e.jsx("h2",{children:"What's new in Post-AI SEO"}),e.jsxs("ul",{children:[e.jsxs("li",{children:[e.jsx("strong",{children:"Quotability."})," Short, declarative sentences with concrete numbers get lifted verbatim. Hedged corporate prose doesn't."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:[e.jsx("strong",{children:"Entity density."})," Named people, products, and places increase the chance an LLM connects your page to a topic."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:[e.jsx("strong",{children:"FAQPage schema."})," Question-format H2/H3s map directly to how users phrase prompts."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:[e.jsx("strong",{children:"LLMs.txt."})," A site-root file telling AI assistants what your site is and where to read more."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:[e.jsx("strong",{children:"Speakable markup."})," Tells AI which sentences are safe to quote in voice and chat answers."]})]}),e.jsx("h2",{children:"How ThoughtForge handles both"}),e.jsx("p",{children:"Every article you write gets scored on a Pre-AI checklist (titles, meta, schema, internal links, image dimensions, keyword density 0.5–2.5%) and a Post-AI checklist (quotability, statistics density, entity coverage, FAQ structure). Then we probe Perplexity weekly with buyer-intent questions on your top 5 articles and tell you when your URL appears in the answer."})]})}export{h as default};