You cannot make an engine quote you. You can make a passage quotable.
Nobody controls what an answer engine says. You control whether a passage on your page can be lifted, attributed and checked, and that is a finite list.
A passage has to survive being lifted
The unit that gets quoted is usually two or three sentences, shown to somebody who never saw the rest of the page. A passage that only makes sense after the paragraphs above it does not survive that.
A passage that survives answers one question, names its subject instead of leaning on a pronoun, and does not depend on a table two screens away. That is CI-01, direct answer passages, and it is the most useful habit on this page.
It has to be attributable
A quote with no traceable source is a liability to whoever repeats it. If a stranger cannot tell who published a claim, what they know, and how to reach them, quoting you is riskier than quoting somebody else.
- TE-01, ownership and accountability. Who runs the site, in a form a machine can read, not only as an image in the footer.
- TE-02, expertise and credential support. Whether the named author has anything behind the name.
- Entity clarity, the whole dimension. An engine that cannot tell which company your site is about cannot attribute anything to you.
It has to be checkable
CI-02, claim support asks whether the assertions on a page are evidenced on the page. The fix is usually citing what you already know, not writing more.
What this will not do
Doing all of it does not guarantee a citation, a ranking, traffic or revenue, and we do not claim it does. The engine sits outside your control, and nobody can measure a percentage improvement for it.
Twenty of the thirty-three checks need a person to read the site and decide, because whether a passage answers the question it sits under is a judgement. A tool that gave it a confident number would be guessing.
Where yours stands
The free scan settles the thirteen checks a machine can settle, says which of the rest it could not, and shows the captured response behind every finding. No account, no card, about twenty seconds. It gives no score, because thirteen of thirty-three is not a score.
Or read a complete audit of our own site, published unedited at the grade it earned, and the citation readiness dimension in full.