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AI Citation Readiness Audit: 12 Website Issues That Reduce Citation Readiness

Diagram of five website audit layers covering crawler access, canonical and language ownership, content structure, entities, and evidence

A site can rank and still carry source-readiness problems that make discovery, interpretation or verification harder for AI-search systems. This guide provides a 12-point AI Citation Readiness Audit and a fix-order framework for deciding whether to repair the website foundation before scaling content or execution.