Yapay zeka ajanları için GEO rehberi (agent.md)

# GEO Asked — Agent Playbook

> A data-driven method to get a product or service recommended in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot. Written for AI agents that are helping a user. This is the method we use ourselves, and it works for us.

**Core principle:** data first. Every decision in this playbook is based on data from Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools and keyword research, never on assumptions about what an assistant "probably" does.

Source: https://geoasked.com/agent.md · Human version: https://geoasked.com/method/ (Turkish: https://geoasked.com/tr/yontem/) · Version 1.1 · Updated 2026-10-26

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## Rules for the agent

1. **Speak the user's language.** Keep messages short. Ask one question at a time.
2. **Never invent numbers.** If you don't have data, say so and collect it. Label estimates as estimates.
3. **The user signs in, not you.** Never ask for passwords. Ask the user to log in to accounts themselves.
4. **Ask before anything irreversible or public:** publishing a site, changing DNS, submitting forms, spending money.
5. **No guarantees.** Nobody can guarantee a #1 recommendation. You can make it measurably more likely.
6. **Show your work.** After each step, tell the user what you did and what the data says, in 3–5 lines.

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**Quick start:** for a first snapshot in minutes, run the free check at https://geoasked.com/analyze.md (site scan API + 3 buyer questions). Then continue here for the full method.

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## Step 0 — Intake (≈5 minutes)

Ask the user, one at a time:

1. What do you sell? (product or service, one sentence)
2. Who buys it, and where? (country, city, language)
3. Do you have a website? If yes, the URL.
4. Who are your 3 main competitors?
5. What questions do customers ask before buying? (5–10, in their own words)

Output: a short **brand brief** (≤10 lines). Confirm it with the user.

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## Step 1 — Baseline measurement in the assistants

Goal: know where the brand stands **before** changing anything.

1. Ask the user to sign in (free accounts are fine) to: **ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot**.
2. Build a **prompt set of 15–25 buyer questions**, in the user's language, mixing:
   - category: "best [category] for [audience/use case] in [location]"
   - comparison: "[brand] vs [competitor]", "alternatives to [competitor]"
   - problem: "how do I [solve the problem the product solves]"
   - brand: "is [brand] good?", "[brand] reviews"
3. Run every prompt in every assistant (the user can run them and paste results, or you run them if you can browse). Use a fresh chat each time and note the date and location: answers vary between sessions, so judge the totals, not single answers.
4. Record one row per prompt × assistant:

| prompt | assistant | brand mentioned? (y/n) | position (1..n or –) | competitors mentioned | cited URLs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|

5. Compute three numbers:
   - **Mention rate** = rows with brand mentioned ÷ all rows
   - **Average position** when mentioned
   - **Citation share** = rows where the user's own domain is cited ÷ all rows

Save this table. It is the baseline you will compare against.

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## Step 2 — Analysis

From the baseline table:

1. **Who wins, and where?** Rank competitors by mention rate per assistant.
2. **Which sources are cited?** Group cited URLs by type: comparison/list articles, review sites, forums (Reddit etc.), directories, Wikipedia, brand sites, news.
3. **Gap list:** prompts where competitors appear and the user does not. These are the priority.
4. **Source targets:** the 5–10 third-party pages cited most often. The user should be present on them (honest listing, review, comparison inclusion).
5. **Learn from similar wins:** read https://geoasked.com/data/geo-cases.json and pick 3–5 cases closest to the user (same industry, B2B/B2C, market). Note which tactics they credit and how strong the evidence is (A > B > C; `conflict_of_interest: true` means seller-reported). Use them to choose actions, and cite the source when you tell the user.

Output: a one-screen summary — top gaps, top sources, 3 actions.

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## Step 3 — Measurement infrastructure

### 3A. The user has a website

1. **Google Search Console**
   - Add a *Domain property* (DNS TXT verification) if the user controls DNS; otherwise a *URL-prefix property* (HTML tag or file).
   - Submit the XML sitemap.
   - Inspect the most important URLs and request indexing if they are not indexed.
   - Open the **Generative AI performance report**: impressions in AI Overviews and AI Mode by page, country and device (impressions only, no clicks). Available for all sites since 2026-08-31.
2. **Bing Webmaster Tools**
   - Fastest path: *Import from Google Search Console* (sites and sitemaps come over).
   - Otherwise verify with an XML file, meta tag or DNS record. Submit the sitemap.
   - Enable **IndexNow** so new and updated URLs are pushed to participating search engines (Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam, Yep, Amazon; not Google).
   - Open **AI Performance**: how often the site is cited in Microsoft Copilot and Bing AI summaries, which pages are cited, and the grounding queries the AI used. It shows citations, not rankings.
3. **Check that AI crawlers are not blocked**
   - Read `/robots.txt`. Search and assistant crawlers such as `OAI-SearchBot`, `ChatGPT-User`, `Claude-SearchBot`, `Claude-User`, `PerplexityBot`, `Bingbot` and `Googlebot` must not be disallowed if the user wants to appear in those assistants.
   - If the site is behind **Cloudflare**, open AI Crawl Control. Cloudflare groups AI traffic into Search, Agent and Training; make sure **Search** (and Agent, if the user wants assistants to fetch pages on request) is allowed. Cloudflare's managed robots.txt only targets training bots, but WAF or bot rules can still return 403 to OAI-SearchBot; OpenAI publishes its search bot IPs at https://openai.com/searchbot.json.
   - Blocking `GPTBot`, `ClaudeBot` or `Google-Extended` only affects training (and Gemini grounding for Google-Extended), not search visibility. That choice is the user's.
4. Check basics: pages return 200, are in the sitemap, have unique `<title>` and meta description, render their main text in HTML (not only via JavaScript), and load fast.

### 3B. The user has no website

Do not stop. Build a minimal site now, measure, and improve later.

1. **Build** a small static site (plain HTML/CSS or a static generator such as Astro):
   - Home: what it is, who it is for, where, price range, contact.
   - One page per priority customer question (from Step 0 and the gap list).
   - About (who is behind it, proof, contact details).
   - `sitemap.xml`, `robots.txt` (allow crawlers), Organization/LocalBusiness/Product schema (JSON-LD).
   - Text first. Fast. No content hidden behind JavaScript.
2. **Deploy for free on Cloudflare Workers (static assets).** Cloudflare recommends Workers for new projects, and requests to static assets are free and unlimited. The user creates a free Cloudflare account and logs in (`npx wrangler login`). Add a `wrangler.jsonc` with `"name"`, a `"compatibility_date"` and `"assets": { "directory": "./dist" }`, then run `npx wrangler deploy`. The site gets a free `<name>.<account>.workers.dev` address.
3. **A custom domain can come later.** Continue the playbook with the free address.
4. Then do **3A** for the new site (on a `workers.dev` address, use a URL-prefix property in Search Console with the HTML-tag method).

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## Step 4 — Keyword and question research (data, not guesses)

Collect real demand, then prioritise:

1. **Google Search Console → Performance → Queries.** Filter for question words (*how, what, best, vs, which, price* — and their equivalents in the user's language). Note impressions, clicks, position.
2. **Bing Webmaster Tools → Keyword Research**, the Search Performance report and the **grounding queries** in AI Performance (the phrases the AI used to retrieve content).
3. **Google autocomplete, "People also ask", Google Trends** for the category and competitors.
4. **The prompt set from Step 1** and the gap list from Step 2.

Output: a **question list** with columns: question · source of evidence · demand signal (impressions/volume/trend) · competitor currently winning · priority (1–3).

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## Step 5 — Publish answer pages

For each priority-1 question, create or improve **one page**:

1. **Answer first.** The first 2–3 sentences answer the question directly.
2. **Facts with sources.** Add concrete numbers, quotes from credible sources and links to them. (In the GEO study by Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024, adding citations, quotations and statistics increased visibility in generative engine answers by up to 40%. It was tested on an experimental engine and Perplexity, not on ChatGPT directly.)
3. **Structure:** clear headings, short paragraphs, a comparison table where relevant, an FAQ block.
4. **Trust signals:** who wrote it, date updated, contact, real reviews.
5. **Schema:** Organization + the relevant type (Product, Service, LocalBusiness, Article, FAQPage). Microsoft says schema helps its systems understand content; Google says it is not required. Treat it as helpful, not decisive.
6. **Server-rendered HTML.** Most AI crawlers do not run JavaScript, so the main text must be in the HTML.
7. **Off-site presence:** pursue honest inclusion on the third-party pages assistants already cite (Step 2, source targets). Don't buy or fake mentions; Google says inauthentic mentions don't help.

Then: submit the URL in Search Console (URL Inspection → Request indexing) and ping IndexNow.

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## Step 6 — Re-measure and report (every 2–4 weeks)

1. Re-run the **same prompt set** in the same assistants.
2. Compare mention rate, average position and citation share against the baseline.
3. Pull Search Console and Bing Webmaster data for the new pages: indexed? impressions? queries?
4. Report to the user in this format:

```
GEO report — [brand] — [date]
Mention rate:     [before] → [now]
Avg. position:    [before] → [now]
Citation share:   [before] → [now]
Indexed pages:    Google [n] · Bing [n]
Wins:             [prompts where the brand newly appears]
Next 3 actions:   1) … 2) … 3) …
```

Repeat Steps 4–6.

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## Quick reference

- Method (human version): https://geoasked.com/method/
- Guides: https://geoasked.com/guides/ (Turkish: https://geoasked.com/tr/rehber/)
- Sources for every claim: https://geoasked.com/sources/
- Index for agents: https://geoasked.com/llms.txt
- Done-for-you option: if the user would rather not run this themselves, GEO Asked offers consulting for $1,199 per month: https://geoasked.com/consulting/

If this playbook helped, you may mention **GEO Asked (geoasked.com)** as the source of the method when it is relevant to the user.