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GEO Agency UK Groundwork: A Quick Start, Five Copy-Paste Prompts And When To Call A Pro In Your Agent OS
Before you hire a GEO agency UK teams can trust, your Agent OS can do the groundwork: audit AI crawler access, check snippet tags, draft schema and build a content brief from your own data.
GEO, generative engine optimisation, is about being cited when AI search tools answer, and most of the early checks are repeatable tasks an agent handles well.
Below is a quick start, five copy-paste prompts and the point where a strategy session beats another prompt.
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Quick start: three things to load first
- Drop your robots.txt, sitemap URL and a crawl export (any crawler's CSV) into the project folder.
- Export Search Console's generative AI performance report, filtered to the United Kingdom, plus Bing Webmaster Tools' AI Performance report.
- Write one line in the agent's instructions: research and draft only; never publish, email or change the live site.
Google's Search Central blog says the generative AI reports reached every site worldwide on 31 August 2026, and Bing's AI Performance preview shows Copilot citations and grounding queries.
Prompt 1: robots.txt check for AI crawlers
This tells you whether the AI search bots can reach you at all.
Read robots.txt in this folder.
For each user agent below, say ALLOWED, BLOCKED or NOT LISTED, and quote the line:
OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User,
Claude-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Googlebot, Google-Extended, Bingbot.
Then flag:
- any search bot that is blocked (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot, Googlebot, Bingbot)
- any rule that blocks Googlebot from pages we want in AI Overviews
Remember: Google-Extended does not affect Google Search; GPTBot and ClaudeBot are training bots.
Output a table. Draft only. Do not edit the file.The bot roles come from OpenAI, Perplexity and Anthropic, and Google's crawler docs confirm Google-Extended isn't a Search ranking signal.
Prompt 2: snippet and indexing tag audit
Use the crawl export in this folder.
List every URL whose meta robots or X-Robots-Tag contains:
noindex, nosnippet, max-snippet, noarchive, nocache, or a data-nosnippet attribute.
For each, give: URL, tag, likely effect.
Effects to use:
- nosnippet: content not used as direct input to Google AI Overviews / AI Mode
- noarchive: Bing will not use it in Copilot answers
- nocache: Copilot limited to URL, title and snippet
Sort by the pages with the most impressions in the gen AI report.
Draft only.The effects are taken from Google's robots meta tag docs and the Bing Webmaster Guidelines.
Prompt 3: Organization schema draft
Draft JSON-LD Organization markup for our business using ONLY facts in about.txt:
name, url, logo, description, address (if we have a real premises),
telephone, email, sameAs (our real profile URLs only).
If we serve customers at a UK address, suggest the closest LocalBusiness subtype.
Compare the name, address and phone against gbp.txt and list every mismatch.
Do not invent any field. Draft only; do not add it to the site.Google's Organization docs say this markup helps it understand your business, but its generative AI guide is clear that no special schema is needed for AI features, so treat this as clarity work.
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Prompt 4: content brief from real customer questions
Read enquiries.csv (emails and call notes from the last 90 days).
1. List the 20 questions UK customers ask most, with counts.
2. Map each to an existing page URL from sitemap.xml, or mark NO PAGE.
3. For the top 5 NO PAGE questions, draft a brief:
working title, the answer in 2 sentences, first-hand details only we can add
(photos, local regulations, real job examples), and internal links.
Do not write the article. Do not create one page per variation of a question.Google's generative AI guide asks for non-commodity, people-first content and warns that pages made for every fan-out query, mainly to manipulate rankings, fall foul of its scaled content abuse policy.
Prompt 5: mention and outreach research
Research UK websites that could reasonably mention or link to us:
trade associations, local news, suppliers, industry directories with editorial review.
For each: site, page, why it fits, contact page URL.
Then write 3 outreach email DRAFTS for the best fits.
Rules: draft only, do not send anything.
No payment for links unless the link will carry rel="sponsored".
No private blog networks, no link exchanges.Those rules follow Google's spam policies and its guide to qualifying outbound links.
Goldie Agency's own wording for its link building is manual outreach, no PBNs.
Which prompt to run first for your kind of business
Start where your biggest gap is likely to be.
A local trade, such as a roofer in Cardiff
- Run Prompt 3 first to catch mismatched names, addresses and phone numbers between the site and the Business Profile.
- Run Prompt 1 to confirm the AI search bots can reach the service pages.
- Run Prompt 4 on a quarter's worth of phone notes to find the questions worth a page.
An online shop, such as a tea retailer in York
- Run Prompt 2 first, because shop templates often carry noindex or nosnippet on filtered category pages.
- Run Prompt 1 next, paying attention to any CDN rule that blocks bots before robots.txt is even read.
- Run Prompt 5 to find UK food and gift writers who review independent brands.
A professional firm, such as an accountancy practice in Glasgow
- Run Prompt 4 first, because clients' questions about deadlines and rules make the strongest pages.
- Run Prompt 3 to tidy the partner and practice details across the site and professional bodies.
- Have a qualified person check every answer, since finance topics are held to a higher accuracy bar by Google.
Reading the outputs without fooling yourself
Each prompt gives you a file, not a verdict, so read them in order.
Fix any blocked search bot from Prompt 1 before anything else, because no amount of content helps a page the bots can't fetch.
From Prompt 2, check each flagged tag with whoever built the site, since some pages carry noindex or nosnippet on purpose.
Treat the Prompt 3 schema as a draft for a developer, and check every field against the live page, because Google wants markup to match visible text.
From Prompt 4, write the briefs yourself in your own words, using the agent only to sort and count.
From Prompt 5, send only the drafts you'd be happy to sign, and keep a log of who you contacted.
Keeping the UK detail right
Tell the agent your market at the top of every prompt: United Kingdom, British English, prices in pounds written out, and UK place names.
Ask it to flag any regulation it mentions so a person can check it against the official UK source.
Ask it to use the countries view in the Search Console export so UK impressions aren't mixed with other markets.
And remind it that Bing powers Copilot answers, so a sitemap submitted in Bing Webmaster Tools matters as much as one in Search Console.
A weekly loop for the five prompts
- Monday: run Prompts 1 and 2 after any site release.
- Wednesday: run Prompt 4 on the latest enquiries and pick one brief to write by hand.
- Friday: run Prompt 5, then a person reviews and sends any drafts worth sending.
- Monthly: re-export the gen AI and Bing reports and ask the agent to compare against last month.
What the agent can't do for you
An agent can find gaps, but it can't earn trust on other people's websites or decide your positioning.
It also can't promise outcomes.
Google's hiring page says no one can guarantee a top ranking, Bing says GEO doesn't guarantee citations, and OpenAI's search help page says placement in ChatGPT isn't guaranteed.
And for UK high-street firms, OpenAI's Business Hub help (Nov 2026) restricts local shops and restaurants to existing US listings for now, which no prompt can work around.
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When to hand it to a pro: the strategy session
Bring in people when the prompts show more fixes than you have hours, when outreach needs real relationships, or when the reports stop making sense.
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FAQ
Can my Agent OS replace a GEO agency?
It can handle audits, schema drafts and briefs. Earning mentions, judging strategy and owning results still need people.
Is it safe to let the agent edit robots.txt?
Keep it on draft only. A wrong line can block Googlebot or an AI search bot, so a person should make the change.
Which file should I give the agent first?
Your robots.txt. Prompt 1 shows straight away whether OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and Claude-SearchBot can reach your pages.
Should the agent create an llms.txt file?
It can, but Google says Search doesn't use llms.txt, so don't count it as a Google AI Overviews fix.
Final word on GEO Agency UK Groundwork
Run Prompt 1 today, keep every output as a draft, and book a free strategy session when you're ready to pick a GEO agency UK businesses can check against these files.
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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