AI issues
Every AI finding Crawl Cove's crawler checks for, each with a real evidence example and a step-by-step fix.
These checks look at the signals generative answer engines rely on before they quote a page: ChatGPT search, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews among them. None is a ranking penalty, which is why most are Info severity: each one points at friction that makes a page harder to quote.
Page checks ask whether a passage is easy to lift: whether a long page has any question-and-answer shape, how it scores on extractability, and whether a nosnippet rule has kept it out of AI Overviews altogether. Article and site checks ask whether an engine can tell who wrote something and when: author identity and dateModified in Article schema, and an Organization or Person entity with sameAs links.
Start with nosnippet hiding a page from AI Overviews, the one finding here that removes a page from AI answers outright rather than making it harder to quote. Crawler access comes before all of it: if robots.txt blocks the AI search crawlers, none of these signals is ever read. The free AI crawler access checker shows where a site stands, bot by bot.
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Medium severity
Page Hidden From AI Overviews by nosnippet
A page carrying nosnippet or max-snippet:0 still ranks but cannot be quoted in Google's AI Overviews. Where the directive hides and how to remove it.
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Info severity
No Author Identity in Article Schema
An article page whose structured data has no author, or names one with no identity link generative engines can use to verify who wrote it.
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Info severity
No dateModified in Article Schema
An article page whose structured data has no dateModified, the machine-readable freshness signal generative engines weigh when picking a source.
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Info severity
No Organization Schema With sameAs Links
No page on the crawled site carries Organization or Person schema with sameAs links, the entity signal generative engines use to confirm who you are.
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Info severity
No Q&A Structure for AI Answer Engines
A substantial page with no FAQ schema and no question-form headings. Why that makes it hard for ChatGPT or AI Overviews to quote, and how to fix it.
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Low severity
Low AI Extractability Score
A page scores below 50/100 on Crawl Cove's AI-extractability check. What the score measures, why structured data counts most, and how to fix it.
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