Technical SEO + AI Search Readiness Checklist
A combined checklist for crawlability, indexability, structured data, sitemaps and modern discovery systems.
Crawlability
Return successful public responses, avoid accidental noindex directives, publish intentional robots policy and use canonical URLs.
Discovery
Maintain an XML sitemap containing canonical URLs and connect important pages through crawlable internal links.
Meaning
Use accurate titles, headings, language declarations and structured data that represents visible content.
AI search access
Treat AI-specific bot policy separately from general SEO. For OpenAI search discovery, review OAI-SearchBot rather than assuming GPTBot controls search inclusion.