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Generative AI SEO Services: Do The Read-Only Groundwork For Five Of The Seven Jobs In Your Agent OS
Generative AI SEO services break into seven jobs, and your Agent OS can do the read-only groundwork for five of them before anyone is paid to touch the site.
The agent checks access, sweeps preview settings, drafts your entity facts, builds briefs from your own notes and researches outreach targets.
A person still approves every change, sends every email and owns every account.
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Which services the agent can prep
| Service | Agent groundwork | Human step |
|---|---|---|
| AI crawler access | Reads robots.txt and logs | Developer edits the file and CDN |
| Preview controls | Lists nosnippet and max-snippet tags | You decide which stay |
| Indexing | Compares sitemap with indexed pages | You submit and fix |
| First-hand content | Turns your notes into a brief | You add the experience |
| Entities | Drafts a fact sheet and Organisation JSON-LD | Developer validates |
| Links and mentions | Researches targets, drafts pitches | You send, or don't |
| Measurement | Merges report exports | You read and act |
Quick start in four steps
- Create a project folder called
ai-searchin your Agent OS. - Drop in your robots.txt, sitemap URL, a server or CDN log export, and a Search Console performance export.
- Add a plain-text file of business facts: name, address or service area, phone, services, profile links.
- Set the agent to read-only for this project, with no CMS, DNS or email permissions.
Add one more file if you can: a transcript of you answering the ten questions customers ask most often.
That transcript is the raw material for Prompts 4 and 5, and it's the part no agency or agent can invent for you.
Prompt 1: check the AI search bots can get in
OpenAI's crawler documentation says sites that opt out of OAI-SearchBot won't be shown in ChatGPT search answers.
Perplexity's crawler page and Anthropic's crawler article split search bots from training bots the same way.
Read only. Do not edit anything.
Open robots.txt in this project and list the rule that applies to each of:
OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot, Googlebot, Bingbot,
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended.
Mark each as "search" or "training".
Then read logs.csv and count hits per bot by HTTP status.
Flag any search bot that is disallowed or getting 403, 429 or 503.
Return one table and a numbered fix list for my developer.If the file allows the bots but the logs show 403s, the CDN is the culprit; OpenAI's ChatGPT search article asks owners to allow its published searchbot IP addresses.
Prompt 2: sweep the preview settings
Google's robots meta tag guide is clear that a nosnippet tag keeps a page out of what feeds AI Overviews and AI Mode directly.
A single stray tag in a theme template can do that to every page at once, which is why this sweep groups results by template.
Read only. Fetch every URL in the sitemap.
For each page, report any of these:
- meta robots or X-Robots-Tag with nosnippet, max-snippet or noindex
- elements wrapped in data-nosnippet
- meta robots with noarchive or nocache (these affect Bing Copilot)
Group results by template, not by URL.
Ask me which ones are deliberate before suggesting any change.Bing's training and grounding update replaces NOARCHIVE and NOCACHE with new preferences from 1 February 2027, so note any page that still relies on them.
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Prompt 3: an entity fact sheet and Organisation schema draft
Google's Organization markup docs say the markup helps Google tell your business apart from others, with sameAs pointing at official profiles.
Bing's Webmaster Guidelines ask for consistent names for people, organisations, products and places.
Read facts.txt and the homepage, contact page and about page.
1. Build a fact sheet: legal name, trading name, address or service
area, phone, founding year, services, official profile URLs.
2. List every place where the site disagrees with facts.txt.
3. Draft Organization JSON-LD using only values that appear in visible
text on the site. Use sameAs for the profile URLs.
4. Do not invent ratings, awards or reviews.
Mark the draft "for developer validation".Google says structured data must match the visible text, which is why step 3 limits the agent to what's already on the page.
Prompt 4: a brief built on what only you know
Google's guide to generative AI search says unique, non-commodity content will likely matter more in the long run than anything else it suggests.
Read call-notes.txt (my answers to customer questions).
Write a content brief for one page about [service].
Keep every number, story and opinion from my notes word for word,
and mark them as quotes.
List the five questions customers ask most, from the notes only.
Do not add generic tips that could appear on any competitor's site.
Flag any claim that needs a source before publishing.One brief, one page; Google warns that churning out pages for every query variation can count as scaled content abuse.
Prompt 5: mention and outreach research, draft only
Google's spam policies list buying links that pass ranking credit among their link spam examples, and its outbound link guide says to mark paid placements rel="sponsored".
The agent's job here is research, not relationships: it finds where your customers already read, and you decide who is worth a personal note.
Draft only. Do not send anything.
Find 20 websites, newsletters or podcasts my customers read about
[topic] in [area].
For each: name, URL, why it fits, and one real story or data point
from call-notes.txt that might interest them.
Draft a short pitch for the top five.
Exclude link farms, "write for us" pages selling links and PBN-style
sites. Save as outreach-drafts.md for my review.Measurement: a monthly report your agent assembles
- Search Console's generative AI performance report for AI Overviews and AI Mode impressions by page.
- Bing Webmaster Tools' AI Performance dashboard for Copilot citations and grounding queries.
- ChatGPT Business Hub insights, if you've claimed your business, for mentions and website clicks.
- Analytics referrals from chatgpt.com, which in our own observation is how ChatGPT visits usually appear.
Ask the agent to join all four by URL and highlight pages that get cited but don't convert.
Note that AI Overviews and AI Mode clicks also sit inside the normal Search Console "Web" totals, so don't double count them.
Business Hub counts can be incomplete, and OpenAI says a blank metric doesn't necessarily mean zero activity.
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Reading the results: what each finding means
- A search bot disallowed in robots.txt. Fix this first; for OpenAI, the change can take around 24 hours to register.
- A search bot allowed but getting 403s. The firewall or CDN is rejecting it, so the fix sits with your host, not the file.
- Training bots blocked. That's a rights decision, not a visibility problem; Google says Google-Extended has no effect on Search inclusion or rankings.
- nosnippet on a template. Every page using that template is out of AI Overviews inputs until it's removed.
- Facts that disagree. Pick one version and update the site, your Business Profile and any directory you control.
- A brief full of generic tips. Your notes were too thin; record a longer answer to the customer questions and run Prompt 4 again.
For the Google-Extended point, see the wording on Google's common crawlers page.
Rerun Prompts 1 and 2 every quarter, because theme updates and plugin changes quietly bring old problems back.
A small-business run: a local physiotherapy clinic
- Prompt 1 finds the CDN blocking PerplexityBot; the developer adds an allow rule.
- Prompt 2 shows the booking template carries nosnippet; the owner removes it.
- Prompt 3 catches two different phone numbers across the site; the owner picks one.
- Prompt 4 turns the lead physio's answers on recovery timelines into a brief, and she writes the page.
- Prompt 5 lists local running clubs and health newsletters; the owner pitches three.
- The monthly report shows which treatment pages appear in AI Overviews.
Guardrails for the whole project
- No write access to the CMS, DNS or email.
- No llms.txt sold to yourself as a Google fix: Google says Search ignores it.
- No fake reviews or seeded forum posts.
- Every agent output goes into a dated log.
When to hand it to a pro
The agent is brilliant at finding problems and drafting.
It can't earn trust from editors, run a long outreach programme, or decide what your business should stand for.
Google's hiring guidance is blunt that no one can promise the top spot on Google, and no reputable provider will promise a ChatGPT mention either.
Hand over when the audit shows more fixes than you can ship, or when links and mentions become the bottleneck.
Want the wider buyer view first? Read the guide to AI search optimisation services.
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FAQ
Can my Agent OS do generative AI SEO services on its own?
It can do the read-only groundwork: access checks, preview sweeps, fact sheets, briefs and outreach research. A person still approves changes, sends pitches and owns the accounts.
Why keep the agent read-only?
Robots.txt and meta tag mistakes can hide a whole site from AI search. Keeping the agent read-only means every change gets a human check first.
Should the agent draft structured data?
Yes, as a draft. Limit it to values that appear in visible text, because Google says markup must match the page, and have a developer validate it.
Can the agent send outreach emails?
Keep it to drafts. Sending and relationship-building are human jobs, and any paid placement needs rel="sponsored".
Final word on Generative AI SEO Services
Run the five prompts read-only, log what they find, keep learning in the AI Profit Boardroom, and book a free SEO strategy session when you want a team to deliver generative AI SEO services for you.
About Julian
I'm Julian Goldie, an AI entrepreneur, SEO expert and the founder of the AI Profit Boardroom, which has 3,400+ members.
I help business owners scale with AI agents, automation and SEO.
My YouTube channel has 400,000+ subscribers, and I run Goldie Agency, a seven-figure SEO agency.
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