Glossary

AI readiness and technical SEO glossary

Definitions for the terms used in isitready.dev scans, reports, and remediation briefs.

AEO

Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of structuring content so answer engines can cite accurate, direct responses.

Generative Engine Optimization focuses on making pages understandable and trustworthy for AI-generated responses.

A plain-text index that explains the important pages, docs, tools, and policies an AI assistant should inspect first.

Portable task instructions that tell coding agents how to remediate a specific operational or content gap.

The Model Context Protocol is a tool and context protocol used by agent clients to discover and call capabilities.

The preferred URL for a page when the same or similar content is reachable through multiple addresses.

HTTP Strict Transport Security tells browsers to use HTTPS automatically for future requests.

Content Security Policy restricts which scripts, styles, images, and connections a browser may load.

A site-level crawler policy file governed by the Robots Exclusion Protocol.

A JSON format for linked data commonly used for schema.org structured data in HTML pages.

A schema.org type for pages that contain official questions and answers.

OpenAI crawler token used in robots.txt policies for web crawling controls.

Google crawler control token for some generative AI training and grounding uses.