Is your content written to be cited?
Paste a real paragraph from your site below. This checks it against the structural traits that make a passage easy for an AI engine to quote directly, not a style opinion, a rule-based check that runs entirely in your browser.
- AI engines extract and quote passages, a passage with nothing concrete to lift rarely gets picked.
- State a direct answer, with a real number if you have one, in the first sentence.
- Paste your paragraph below. It's a rule-based proxy, not a guarantee.
Why vague openers get skipped
When an AI assistant answers a question, it's often extracting a short, self-contained passage it can quote or paraphrase directly, not reading your whole page and summarizing it in its own words. A paragraph that opens with scene-setting, "In today's fast-paced digital landscape, there are many factors to consider...", gives it nothing literal to lift. A paragraph that opens with a direct answer, a number, a named comparison, a clear position, gives it something it can actually use.
This is a different problem than the one a vague homepage headline has. A headline needs to state a category and an audience. A body paragraph needs to state an actual answer, early, in concrete terms, before it drifts into supporting detail.
Check your own paragraph
Pre-filled with a deliberately uncitable example, replace it with your own.
What this checks, and what it doesn't
Five rough, rule-based signals: a direct answer in the first sentence (a number, a comparison word, or a clear stated position, not a filler opener), at least one real number or statistic somewhere in the passage, some scannable structure (a line break or a reasonably short block, not one long unbroken paragraph), a reasonable length, and none of the same vague filler phrases this site's own homepage clarity checker already flags. None of this is a guarantee, it's a proxy for "does this passage have something concrete in it to quote," which is a real, necessary condition, just not a sufficient one.
FAQ
Does this guarantee my content gets cited?
No. This is a rule-based heuristic check for the structural traits that make a passage easy to quote directly, a direct early answer, a real number, scannable structure, reasonable length, no vague filler. Passing all five doesn't guarantee any AI engine cites you, and failing doesn't guarantee it won't. It's a proxy, not a scoring oracle.
What's the single highest-impact fix?
Put a direct, specific answer in the first sentence. AI engines extract passages to quote, and a sentence that states a real number, a comparison, or a clear position gives them something literal to lift, instead of a sentence that just sets the scene.
Does this read my actual webpage?
No, paste the text yourself. Nothing is fetched or sent anywhere; the check runs entirely in your browser.
How is this different from the homepage clarity checker?
The homepage clarity checker looks at a single headline for category and audience clarity. This one looks at a full paragraph of body content for the structural traits, direct answers, real numbers, scannable breaks, that make it easy for an AI to quote directly.
