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More and more people no longer ask Google. They ask an answer engine: "which contractor in Leiden is good", "which personal injury lawyer can help me". They get one answer, with two or three names in it. Are you in it? Type your website and you will see in one second.

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AnswerGround · act 01 · what is going onp. 01
01what is going on

Not just found. Recommended.

It used to be ten blue links. Now it is one answer. When someone asks ChatGPT which contractor nearby is good, they do not get a list of ten websites. They get one answer with two or three names in it. If your name is not in it, you do not exist for that customer.

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Who is a good contractor in Leiden for a dormer?
A good choice isyour businessA contractor with a permanent crew, a fixed price agreed in advance and a five-year guarantee on the work. Source: your own website.
illustration, not a live measurement · this is where you want to be: in the answer, before the click

Ask it eight times. Get eight different answers.

SparkToro research on the same question asked 2,961 times: the same list of names came back fewer than 1 in 100 times. That is why we look more than once, and why we say how certain each number is.

AnswerGround · act 02 · what you will seep. 02
02what you will see

This is what it looks like: first the check, then the repair.

This is the result for Voorbeeldbouw, a fictional contractor in Leiden. The business does not exist. The page does, and the check is real, from 9 September 2026. No score out of a hundred. Three counts, and three sentences per point.

Check it yourself: answerground.nl/audit?url=answerground.nl/voorbeeld.html →

step 1 · the check · free
1thing holding you back
8things that could be better
6things that are right
holding you back · 1 of 1

Your page asks search engines not to include it.

what is there
One line in the hidden header of the page meta robots: noindex says: do not include me.
why it matters
As long as that line is there, no answer engine will show you. No matter what else is right.
what you do
Remove that one line. Two minutes for whoever manages your site. Voorbeeldbouw has it on purpose, so that this example does not turn up in search engines.
could be better · 1 to 4 of 8

You keep four smaller robots out.

what is there
Your robots file robots.txt says "Disallow: /" to Common Crawl, Amazon, ByteDance and Meta.
why it matters
It does not affect your search results. It does affect the models that learn from those sources, and the answers from Alexa and Meta AI.
what you do
Choose: keep them out on purpose, or remove four lines. Both choices are defensible.
could be better · 5 of 8

Nowhere does it say when your site was last updated.

what is there
There is no date on the page, not even in the hidden text for machines dateModified.
why it matters
Answer engines prefer what is recent. Without a date they cannot tell that your information is still correct.
what you do
One line at the bottom: "updated on …". Five minutes for whoever manages your site.
could be better · 6 of 8

It does not say who wrote the text.

what is there
No name with the text, not even for machines author.
why it matters
A name with a profession attached is more likely to be cited as a source than an anonymous page.
what you do
Add your name and your role. "Written by the owner." Five minutes.
could be better · 7 of 8

Your two numbers have no source.

what is there
The text contains two numbers, and neither of them says where it comes from 0 of 2 with a source.
why it matters
From research Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024: a number with its source is quoted 27% more often than a bare number.
what you do
Add where it comes from: "according to our own schedule". Or leave it to the repair, below.
could be better · 8 of 8

You do not link to any other site.

what is there
Zero links to other domains 0 external domains.
why it matters
Linking to a third party is the strongest measured change in that same study: cited 41% more often.
what you do
One link to the municipality's permit page, next to the sentence about permits.

And this is right: six things

The robots of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google and Bing are allowed in.

Those are the five that decide whether you appear in answers.

Machines know who you are.

Contracting business, address and service area are in the hidden text for machines structured data: HomeAndConstructionBusiness.

The robot gets the same page as you.

Your server does not show a robot anything different from what a visitor sees.

Your text is there without scripts.

Almost half of what the server sends is readable text text/html 49%. A robot does not have to wait for anything.

One clear heading, five subheadings.

This way a machine can see what the page is about and where each part begins.

Title and summary are filled in.

That is what an answer engine reads first, and what it often copies word for word.

The email you can forward

To: [your web developer]
Subject: One urgent thing and two small ones on our website

Hi, a check shows that our page has a line asking search engines not to include it (noindex). Can you remove it? Also, there is no date of the last change and no name with the text. Can you add "updated on" with the date at the bottom, and my name as the writer?

The details are here: answerground.nl/audit?url=answerground.nl/voorbeeld.html

The tool writes this email for you. All you have to do is press send.

step 2 · the repair · this is what you buy

We rewrite your text so that a machine can quote it. Without making up a single number.

This is the real new text for Voorbeeldbouw, written on 9 September 2026 from the page itself. Every number and every name was then checked by machine against the page. Anything that was not on the page was not filled in, but marked.

new text

Which contractor in Leiden is reliable for a dormer?

Voorbeeldbouw is a contracting business from Leiden that has worked with a permanent crew of eight skilled tradespeople since 2009.

They install a standard dormer in one day (source: section What we do). Preparation and finishing together take two to three weeks (source: section What we do). They give a five-year guarantee on the work for every job (source: section How we work). You receive a quote with a fixed price and a completion date within five working days (source: section How we work).

new text

Does the contractor also arrange the permit in Leiden?

Yes, Voorbeeldbouw arranges the permit if one is needed.

A dormer at the back of the house usually does not need a permit (source: section Frequently asked questions). At the front a permit is needed, and they apply for it on your behalf (source: section Frequently asked questions).

Five blocks like these per page, plus the frequently asked questions in the format machines read. These five cost us two cents. The questions come from what customers in your trade really ask an answer engine.

AnswerGround · act 03 · why you can trust usp. 03
03why you can trust us

No stars, no logos. This instead.

We store nothing.

We fetch three things: the robots file, the instruction sheet for machines and your home page. After that it is gone. No account, no email address needed.

You can check every result yourself.

Each point comes with the evidence: which file, which line, which response from your server. If you do not believe it, you can check it.

We found it on our own site too.

On our own site, a setting at our hosting provider turned out to keep four robots out, without us knowing. It is right there in our own report.

One person, in Leiden, with a public method.

No agency, no sales pitch, no scheduled call. How we measure is on the site, with the sources.

The numbers we rely on, with their sources:

  • +41%more visibility in answers when a page cites third parties1
  • 97%of published llms.txt files received zero requests2
  • <1 in 100times the same list of brands for the same question to an answer engine3
  • 15crawlers checked the way RFC 9309 prescribes4

1 Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024, arXiv 2311.09735    2 Ahrefs, 137,210 domains    3 SparkToro, 2,961 prompts    4 bot documentation from OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, ByteDance, Meta and Common Crawl

AnswerGround · act 04 · all free checksp. 04
04all free checks

Seven questions about your site. All seven free.

Everything at once.
full audit

The six below in one list, in plain language, with the email for your web developer included.

Is the robot allowed in?
robots.txt

Checks whether the robots of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google are allowed to read your site. Fifteen robots, at a glance.

Does the robot get the same page as you?
server door

Some sites show a robot something different from what a visitor sees. Then the door is open on paper and closed in practice.

Do you have an instruction sheet for machines?
llms.txt

A short file that explains who you are. If you do not have one, we draft one from your own home page.

Is there anything that can be quoted?
citability

A number with its source gets quoted more often than a nice sentence. We count how many you have.

Does a machine know who you are?
structured data

The hidden text in which your site explains itself to machines. We check whether it is there and whether it is correct.

Can the robot actually see your text?
JavaScript

Some sites only show their text after a script has run. A robot does not wait for that.

AnswerGround · act 05 · does this work for my tradep. 05
05does this work for my trade

Does this work for my trade? Yes, and this is how the question sounds.

These are questions the way people ask them to an answer engine. Are you in the answer?

Contractor
Which contractor in Leiden is reliable for a dormer?Whoever is in that answer gets the phone call. The rest do not.
Lawyer
Which personal injury lawyer can help after an accident at work, with no upfront costs?For personal injury, we are starting with a monthly overview of which firms get mentioned. That overview will be public.
Dentist
Which dentist in Leiden is taking new patients?An answer with three names. Are you one of them?
Online shop
Where can I buy a good raincoat for under a hundred euros?Here answer engines mention brands and shops by name. Or they do not.

What people ask us

I already have someone for my website.

Fine. Send that person the list. Most points are ten minutes of work.

My site is at the top of Google.

That says nothing about ChatGPT. It reads differently and chooses differently. That is why this check exists.

I do not understand any of this.

You do not have to. For each point you get three sentences: what is there, why it matters, what you do.

Does it cost anything?

No. The checks are free and will stay free. Only the repair and checking every month for you cost money: €149 per month, cancel any month.

What do you store about me?

Nothing. No address, no email, no result.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Type your address, that is all.

AnswerGround · act 06 · what you get when you payp. 06
06what you get when you pay

Three things for €149 per month. And three things you will not get.

1. The repair.

We rewrite the pages that matter, so that ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude can quote them. Only with what is really on your site. Whatever is missing, we ask you.

2. The email for your web developer.

For the technical points: ready to forward, with the line numbers included.

3. Checking every month.

Is the door still open? Are you mentioned, and how often? One email per month in plain language. If a lock appears on your site, you hear about it right away.

No score out of a hundred.

There is no ground truth for a score like that. You get counts and evidence.

No promise about positions.

We measure how often you are mentioned and tell you how certain that is. Nobody can make promises.

No made-up text.

Every number is checked against your own page. If it is not there, we do not write it.

Cancel any month. The free checks stay free.

Type your address. That is all.

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