Check a page against the questions you are losing

What it does

At the end of a check, under What to do next, Check a page takes the address of any public page, yours or anyone's, and gives two answers:

• The checklist, for that page: whether each assistant's answer-time reader may fetch it (your robots.txt rules for that address), how much text a reader that runs no JavaScript sees, whether search engines may index and quote it, structured data saying what the page is, title and description, headings, when it was last updated, whether it answers questions in plain sentences, its canonical address, language and link-preview tags. Graded A to E, problems first, with what to fix.
• Does it answer the questions you are losing? The contested questions (discovery and comparison) where this check found you were not the first recommendation are read against the page's own text: Answers it, Partly or Does not answer, with the page's own words when it does and what is missing when it does not.

How it reads the page

PollyX reads the page the way an AI page reader does: the HTML as sent, without running JavaScript, as PollyXBot and only when the site's robots.txt allows it. The checklist is code. Whether the page answers each question is one AI reading of the page's text (about a cent), and a quote is shown only when it is in the page word for word.

Rewrite advice

On a checked page, Rewrite advice reads the page again and writes how to rewrite it, and every piece of it says where on the page it goes:

• Title and description: the wording, and where it goes (the page's title tag and meta description: the SEO title and description fields in most site builders).
• Headings: the page's headings from top to bottom, each marked keep, rename (with the heading it replaces) or new.
• Each question the page does not fully answer: exactly where the new text goes (right after one of your headings, at the end of one of your sections, in place of one of your paragraphs, in your FAQ, or a new section near the top or the end), what to change, a paragraph to start from, and You fill in: the facts that paragraph needs from you.
• Other changes from the checklist, each saying where.

A heading or paragraph it points to is checked against your page word for word; when it cannot be tied to one, the advice says to add a new section at the end of the page. It is one AI reading (about 2 cents), 10 a day. Every fact about you (prices, numbers, dates, policies) is left in [brackets] for you to fill in: nothing in it has been checked against your business. The advice stays with the page check and goes into your own PDF, slides and Markdown.

Good to know

• Check up to 20 pages a day. Each check keeps its last 10 pages; checking a page again replaces its result (and its rewrite advice).
• A page that turns away unfamiliar readers (a firewall or bot protection) cannot be checked, and is likely turning away AI assistants' readers too.
• Use it on a page before and after you change it, or on a rival's page that the assistants read instead of yours (see Reading your AI Visibility results).

Your whole site at once

Your site, page by page, just above it, runs the same checklist (without the question reading, so no AI cost) on up to 25 pages of your own site: your homepage, the pages the assistants read in this check, then the main pages of your sitemap. It shows, check by check, how many pages pass, need work or fail, and lists every page weakest first with what to fix. It reads your site the same way, as PollyXBot and only where robots.txt allows. You can run it 5 times a day; each run replaces the last.