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Crawled GEO Audit – 12 Core Signals
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Use this workbook to audit your or your client's digital footprint against the 12 core GEO signals from Crawled.
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Start with the '12-Signal GEO Audit' tab.
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Then create concrete next steps in the 'Action Plan' tab.
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SignalSignal NameDefinition SummaryWhy Generative Engines Care
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1Clear, Unambiguous Entity Identity Consistency of your name, business name, locations, and primary identifiers across the web.Necessary to avoid hallucination; connects identity to a single, coherent graph of information.
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2Structured Profiles Across the Web (Your Entity Surfaces)Public surfaces (LinkedIn, website, directories) containing core identity fields in a predictable form.Structured patterns provide a reliability signal, which helps verify information before summarizing.
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3Consistent Narrative and Topic ClusteringA stable story about who you are and a set of subjects you consistently create content around.Creates a sharp and reliable shape in the engines' vector representation, reducing error and strengthening credibility.
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4Index-Friendly Formatting and Clean Information ArchitectureReadable, scannable, and predictable content structure (headers, lists, logical flows).Predictable structural patterns reduce hallucination risk and simplify the extraction of meaning.
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5Fact-Stable Content (Low Hallucination Risk)Information (dates, statistics, credentials, service descriptions) that is consistent and verifiable across multiple surfaces.Conflicting facts treat the entire identity as risky, while stable facts remove uncertainty and increase visibility.
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Signals That Help AIs Verify You (Authorship, Provenance, Accountability)
Cues that tie content to an identifiable, accountable person or business (bylines, consistent contact fields, clear ownership).Clear authorship reduces legal, ethical, and accuracy risk, allowing models to determine if information is safe to reuse.
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7Interlinking That Preserves ContextConnecting pages and profiles to show engines how your ideas, services, and identity relate to each other.Structured relationships between concepts reduce hallucination risk and increase confidence for use in generative responses.
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8Source Diversity (Your Multi-Surface Footprint)The number and variety of online surfaces that consistently mention you or host your content.Provides redundancy and stability, confirming the entity is real and durable rather than a "lone surface".
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9Freshness With PurposeUpdating content when there is a real change in information (services, pricing, timelines), not just to chase a ranking boost.Signals that your information is maintained and current, reducing the risk of the model pulling stale information.
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10Predictable Surface Structure
Consistent organization of your digital surfaces, including profile field order and article layouts, that generative engines learn to trust.
Reduces parsing complexity, lowers hallucination risk, and clarifies hierarchy by matching patterns engines expect.
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11Transparent Metadata (Titles, Descriptions, Alt Text, Captions) Descriptive labels that tell generative engines what your content is about (accurate titles, alt text, meta descriptions).Provides early signals to detect the main topic and confirm context, which prevents misclassification and hallucination.
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12Retrieval-Ready Packaging (Content AIs Can Parse Reliably)Presenting information in formats that engines can easily extract, summarize, and reuse (FAQs, bullet lists, labeled sections).
Enables the extraction of "packets of meaning" rather than full pages, giving engines confidence that the content is structured and safe to reuse.
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