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AEO grade · techcrunch.com

Will AI engines citetechcrunch.com?

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Quick grade · 71/100

techcrunch.com has serious AEO gaps. AI engines may not be reading or trusting your pages the way you think. The fixes are mostly cheap — schema, llms.txt, and crawl-time signals.

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What we checked

  • HTTPS10 pts

    TLS responds correctly. AI crawlers won't be blocked at the network layer.

  • robots.txt + AI bots15 pts

    robots.txt blocks one or more AI engine crawlers. You are intentionally invisible to that audience.

  • llms.txt10 pts

    No /llms.txt published. The llmstxt.org spec is the explicit channel for telling AI engines what to index. Missing this is the cheapest fix on this page.

  • sitemap.xml10 pts

    sitemap.xml present at the standard location. AI crawlers can enumerate your indexable surface.

  • Open Graph image10 pts

    og:image is set. Social and AI-engine link previews will render with a branded card.

  • JSON-LD schema20 pts

    JSON-LD detected. Schema.org markup is the single highest-leverage signal for AI Overview eligibility.

  • <title> length5 pts

    Title length (40 chars) sits in the AI-Overview-friendly 50–60 char band.

  • meta description5 pts

    Meta description (107 chars) sits in the 80–160 sweet spot.

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