The AEO Field Library
25 ways to make AI visibility less vague.
Free, research-backed templates for the work behind durable AI visibility: measurement, access, entity facts, decision content, original evidence, and operations.
25
complete field assets
- ✓ Copyable working artifact
- ✓ Quality and validation checks
- ✓ Official primary sources
- ✓ Limits and no-guarantee notes
Built for outcomes
Tie each action to a buyer decision, factual risk, access blocker, or evidence gap.
Built for scrutiny
Every asset includes primary sources, validation checks, and an explicit limitation.
No magic files
Schema and crawler access have real jobs. Neither one guarantees an AI recommendation.
01
Measure visibility
Build the prompt set, baseline, recommendation tracker, citation analysis, and referral view needed to see what changes.
Asset 01
AI visibility baseline template
Freeze the starting line before an AEO project so you can tell a real change from a memorable screenshot.
Measurement template
7 min · template included →
Asset 02
Buyer prompt map template
Turn one buying decision into a compact prompt set that mirrors how people narrow options and manage risk.
Research framework
7 min · template included →
Asset 03
AI recommendation tracker template
A tracker for the part most dashboards flatten: why a brand appeared, how strongly it was recommended, and what changed.
Operating spreadsheet
6 min · template included →
Asset 04
AI citation gap analysis template
Find the evidence competitors own, the sources engines repeatedly trust, and the claims your current pages cannot support.
Evidence analysis
8 min · template included →
Asset 05
GA4 AI referral dashboard setup
Measure the visits you can observe, preserve the raw source values, and keep referral traffic separate from AI visibility claims.
Analytics recipe
8 min · template included →
02
Control access
Set intentional crawler policies and verify that important facts survive robots rules, CDNs, and JavaScript rendering.
Asset 06
AI crawler robots.txt policy template
Decide which automated agents may search, retrieve, or train on your pages, then publish a policy your legal and technical teams can explain.
Governance template
9 min · template included →
Asset 07
GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot vs ChatGPT-User
Three OpenAI agents, three different jobs, and one policy mistake that can quietly remove pages from answer summaries.
Provider access guide
7 min · template included →
Asset 08
ClaudeBot, Claude-User, and Claude-SearchBot guide
Use Anthropic's current three-agent model to make search, user retrieval, and training choices independently.
Provider access guide
7 min · template included →
Asset 09
PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User access guide
Separate Perplexity's search-index crawler from user-requested retrieval, then verify more than the robots.txt text.
Provider access guide
7 min · template included →
Asset 10
JavaScript rendering and crawler checklist
Test the page a crawler receives before debating content strategy. The answer may be missing from the HTML that matters.
Technical checklist
9 min · template included →
03
Clarify entities
Reconcile the facts behind organizations, products, locations, datasets, and every dependent public source.
Asset 11
Organization schema template
Describe one real organization consistently. Skip decorative properties you cannot verify and never use markup to invent authority.
Structured data template
8 min · template included →
Asset 12
Product and Offer schema template
Turn a stable product page into accurate Product and Offer markup without hiding caveats or manufacturing ratings.
Structured data template
9 min · template included →
Asset 13
LocalBusiness schema template
Give each real location a stable, consistent identity across its page, business profiles, directories, and structured data.
Local entity template
9 min · template included →
Asset 14
Dataset schema and download template
Make the data behind a claim inspectable, reusable, and tied to one canonical study page.
Research publishing template
10 min · template included →
Asset 15
Brand source of truth matrix
Find conflicting facts before an engine, directory, salesperson, or customer chooses the wrong version for you.
Entity governance
8 min · template included →
04
Build answer-ready pages
Create decision pages that lead with a useful answer, support it with evidence, and make limitations visible.
Asset 16
Answer-first content brief
Design one page around the decision a reader is trying to make, with the answer and its evidence available before the filler.
Content brief
8 min · template included →
Asset 17
Fair comparison page content brief
Help the right buyer choose, including when the competitor is the better fit. Credibility is the conversion asset.
Decision content brief
9 min · template included →
Asset 18
Alternatives page content brief
Explain the alternatives landscape as a set of different buyer fits, not a long list of logos surrounding your own product.
Shortlist content brief
9 min · template included →
Asset 19
Statistics and research page brief
Make every headline number traceable to a definition, population, method, date, and source a reader can actually inspect.
Evidence content brief
10 min · template included →
Asset 20
Product fact page template
Give buyers and answer systems one maintained place to verify the facts most likely to make or break a shortlist.
Commercial fact template
8 min · template included →
05
Operate and earn citations
Turn research, corrections, freshness, outreach, and measurement into a repeatable operating rhythm.
Asset 21
Original AEO research study template
Design the study before seeing the answer, preserve the messy observations, and publish only the claim the method can support.
Research protocol
11 min · template included →
Asset 22
Expert quote outreach template
Offer an editor something that improves the story: a timely finding, a qualified expert, or a useful counterpoint with proof attached.
Earned evidence template
8 min · template included →
Asset 23
AI answer correction log
Turn a wrong answer into a managed evidence problem with an owner, priority, correction path, and honest retest history.
Accuracy operations
9 min · template included →
Asset 24
IndexNow content update workflow
Send precise URL change notifications after the page is truly live, then monitor discovery and indexing without treating HTTP 200 as a ranking win.
Freshness operations
8 min · template included →
Asset 25
90-day AEO roadmap template
Fix the evidence supply chain in order: measure the decision, remove access problems, clarify facts, publish proof, earn discovery, and rerun the same baseline.
Program plan
11 min · template included →
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