Show HN: CiteReady – check if your site can be cited by AI search engines
CiteReady is a tool that lets website owners check whether their site can be properly cited by AI search engines. It analyzes a site's structure and content to determine its citability for AI-driven discovery and indexing.
Background
- AI search engines (Perplexity, ChatGPT Search, Google AI Overviews, etc.) increasingly cite web sources in their answers, but they have technical requirements to properly index and credit a site. Many sites inadvertently block or hobble AI crawlers, meaning they won't appear as citations.
- CiteReady is a free scanning tool (built by the poster) that checks a given URL for compliance with AI citation best practices: robots.txt rules, meta tags, structured data, page speed, content accessibility, etc.
- The tool addresses a growing anxiety among publishers, bloggers, and small-site owners who want their content to be discoverable by and credited in AI-generated responses — a shift that could reshape web traffic and attribution.)