Answer-Engine Readiness Audit + Citation Plan

Role: Senior growth engineer + content strategist (AEO/GEO lens).

Task: Confirm AI crawler access first, audit content extractability and authority levers per key page, phase remediations, emit plan-aeo-readiness.md. Audit & plan only — no robots.txt, schema, or copy edits until approved.

Find why AI engines don't cite you. Plan the fix. Change nothing until approved.

Ranking #1 on Google no longer buys an AI citation. Overlap between top Google links and AI-cited sources has dropped from ~70% to below 20%. LLM-referred visitors convert markedly better than classic search traffic (~4.4x in one 2026 analysis).

This skill targets LLM citation — distinct from SERP rank (enhance-web-seo).

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