# AI Overview Page Optimizer: AI Mode & ChatGPT Citability (`cygnix_labs/ai-overview-page-optimizer`) Actor

Score any page 0-100 for a target query on how easily Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT search and Perplexity can quote it: crawler/snippet access, answer-first intro, question headings, citable passages, lists, sources, freshness, author, schema. Fixes in priority order. $0.01 per page.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/cygnix_labs/ai-overview-page-optimizer.md
- **Developed by:** [Umair Saleem Mohammad Saleem](https://apify.com/cygnix_labs) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, AI, Developer tools
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$10.00 / 1,000 page scoreds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## AI Overview Page Optimizer: will AI Overviews, AI Mode and ChatGPT quote this page?

Give it a page and the question you want it to answer. It returns a **0-100 citability score**, the gaps costing the most points, the passage AI engines would most likely quote today, and fixes in priority order. Built for SEO agencies and site owners asking "how do I optimize a page for AI Overviews / AI Mode?".

AI answers quote **passages**, not sites, so this works page by page and query by query, from public HTML only. No API keys, no login, robots.txt respected.

### What it checks (weight out of 100)

| Check | Weight | Fails when |
|---|---|---|
| Crawler and snippet access | 14 | robots.txt blocks Googlebot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot or Bingbot, or the page has noindex, nosnippet or max-snippet:0 (score capped at 25) |
| Answer in the first 60 words | 16 | no plain declarative answer using the query's words; fluffy intro; opens with a question |
| Self-contained 40-120 word passages | 14 | fewer than 5 paragraphs that stand alone |
| Query words in title, H1 and a heading | 8 | missing from any of them |
| Question-style sub-headings | 8 | fewer than 3 H2/H3 questions |
| Lists or tables | 8 | none in the main content |
| Numbers and cited sources | 8 | few figures, fewer than 3 external sources |
| Freshness | 8 | no dateModified or visible updated date, or older than 12 months |
| Author or organization | 6 | no byline, no Person/Organization schema |
| Structured data | 6 | no Article/FAQPage/HowTo/Product/Service JSON-LD |
| Depth | 4 | under 600 words, or JavaScript-only content |

### Input

```json
{ "pages": ["https://example.com/blog/implant-timeline | how long does a dental implant take"], "maxPages": 50 }
```

One line per page as `URL | target query`, or set a default `query`.

### Output

- **Dataset**: one row per page with `score`, `grade` (A-F), `topGaps`, `fixes`, `bestPassage`, every check with its evidence, bot access and schema types.
- **REPORT** record: a Markdown report ready to paste into a client doc.

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.01 per page scored**. Pages that fail to load are not charged.

### Good to know

- The score measures how quotable the page is, not whether Google will show an AI Overview. Re-run after changes to show before/after.
- Google-Extended does not control AI Overviews (Googlebot does).
- Check your own or your clients' pages.

Also available as a Claude/agent skill on Agensi, which also writes the answer-first rewrite, question headings and FAQ block for you. Made by Cygnix Labs.

# Actor input Schema

## `pages` (type: `array`):

One per line as: URL | target query. If you leave out the query, the default query below is used.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Used for any page line without its own query.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Each scored page is one charged event.

## `delaySecs` (type: `number`):

Polite crawling; robots.txt is always respected.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "pages": [
    "https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-cookies | does google analytics use cookies"
  ],
  "maxPages": 50,
  "delaySecs": 1
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `report` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "pages": [
        "https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-cookies | does google analytics use cookies"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("cygnix_labs/ai-overview-page-optimizer").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "pages": ["https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-cookies | does google analytics use cookies"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("cygnix_labs/ai-overview-page-optimizer").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "pages": [
    "https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-cookies | does google analytics use cookies"
  ]
}' |
apify call cygnix_labs/ai-overview-page-optimizer --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,cygnix_labs/ai-overview-page-optimizer"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/tqq2NB8daBU9c4j3j/builds/vP9gwruRuALp3QdUF/openapi.json