GEO Citation Readiness Monitor

Audit whether a page is ready to be found, extracted, understood, and cited by AI/search systems. The Actor does not pretend to scrape private ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, or Google AI Overview sessions. It uses public, no-cost checks that stay useful before a brand spends money on paid citation tracking.

What it checks

• target page fetch status, redirects, byte size, title, meta description, H1, canonical and noindex
• static text extraction and query-term coverage for each monitored question
• JSON-LD schema types found in visible page HTML
• robots.txt, including obvious blocks for common AI/search bots such as GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and ClaudeBot
• sitemap.xml discovery and whether the target URL appears in it
• llms.txt presence as an AI-readable citation map
• optional public DuckDuckGo HTML SERP sample for target-domain and competitor presence
• source health for every public fetch, including HTTP errors, block hints and extracted counts

What it returns

Each dataset row is one query/URL readiness audit:

• geoReadinessScore
• citationReadinessScore
• crawlabilityScore
• answerCoverageScore
• technicalSignalsScore
• serpPresenceScore
• target/competitor SERP flags and best position when found
• title, H1, meta description, canonical, schema types and word count
• query terms matched and missing
• recommendedFixes with concrete work to improve the page
• sourceHealth for target page, robots, sitemap, llms.txt and SERP sample

The SUMMARY key contains averages, blockers, best rows, weakest rows and all source-health records.

Inputs

• targetUrls: pages to audit
• targetDomain: domain to track in public SERP samples; used as a fallback URL when targetUrls is empty
• queries: questions or search phrases the page should answer
• brand: brand text to match in page and SERP metadata
• competitorDomains: domains to compare in sampled public search results
• country, language: search endpoint hints
• includeSerp: turn the no-cost SERP sample on or off
• includePageContent: turn static text extraction on or off
• maxResults, maxItems: collection limits

Example input

{
  "targetUrls": ["https://scilipoti.de/tools/geo-serp-visibility-monitor/"],
  "targetDomain": "scilipoti.de",
  "brand": "Francesco Scilipoti",
  "queries": [
    "geo citation readiness monitor",
    "ai search visibility checker"
  ],
  "competitorDomains": ["apify.com"],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "includeSerp": true,
  "maxResults": 10
}

Limits

This Actor measures GEO readiness and public search visibility signals. It does not guarantee that an AI assistant will cite a page, and it does not use logged-in AI products or paid search APIs. When a source blocks or returns an empty page, the run records that in sourceHealth instead of inventing rows.

For direct AI citation monitoring, add a separate provider layer later with an approved API or an explicitly approved browser workflow. Keep that separate from this no-cost readiness Actor.