SEO & GEO/AEO

Verified against Claude · 2026-08-06

Rewrite a paragraph so an AI Overview can actually cite it

Take a paragraph that’s accurate but hard to extract, and restructure it into a self-contained, quotable passage — the shape AI Overviews, featured snippets and voice answers actually pull from — without turning your copy into a robotic list. Focused on on-page structure, not GEO strategy.

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The prompt

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Act as an editor optimizing for passage-level extraction, not just readability. Target question this paragraph should answer if lifted on its own: How much does a website redesign cost?

Current paragraph:
When it comes to pricing, there are a lot of factors that go into it, and it really depends on your specific situation, but generally speaking most agencies will find that costs can vary quite a bit depending on scope.

1. Rewrite it so the first sentence alone would fully answer How much does a website redesign cost? if nothing else in the paragraph were read. Lead with the direct answer — a number, a named factor, a clear yes or no — not a throat-clearing setup sentence.
2. Remove vague hedging that carries no extractable information: "it depends," "a lot of factors," "generally speaking." Replace each with the actual specific factor or number it was standing in for. If you genuinely don't have the specific number, say so instead of inventing one.
3. Keep it one self-contained unit — a passage that makes sense with zero surrounding context, since that's what gets pulled into an AI Overview or a voice answer, not a sentence that only makes sense after the sentence before it.
4. Preserve natural prose. This should not read as a robotic list or bullet-fragment; it should still sound like a person wrote it, just a person who leads with the answer.
5. Show both versions side by side, and in one sentence name the specific vague phrase you eliminated and what concrete claim replaced it.

If the original paragraph doesn't actually contain a specific answer to extract, tell me that directly instead of fabricating a number or fact — flag it as a content gap, not a rewrite problem.
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Why this works

AI Overviews and classic featured snippets both work by extracting a short, self-contained passage rather than reading a full page — leading with the direct answer mirrors the inverted-pyramid structure that passage-ranking systems already reward, so the same rewrite helps both surfaces at once, not just AI citation specifically. Removing hedging language matters because extraction systems preferentially select declarative, specific statements over ones that defer the real answer to context the extraction step may not carry forward. This is deliberately scoped to sentence-level, on-page structure rather than a broader GEO strategy — it’s the same discipline that makes a paragraph eligible for a rich result or a snippet, just applied at the sentence level. The instruction to flag missing specifics rather than invent them matters because AI Overview citation is exactly the surface where a confidently wrong number gets repeated at scale — a bad rewrite here doesn’t just fail to get cited, it actively misinforms whoever reads the citation.

What you get back

Before: "When it comes to pricing, there are a lot of factors that go into it, and it really depends on your specific situation, but generally speaking most agencies will find that costs can vary quite a bit depending on scope." After: "A website redesign typically costs $3,000-$15,000 for a small business site, with the biggest swing factor being how many custom page templates you need versus reusing a theme. Larger sites with e-commerce or custom features can run well past $25,000." Eliminated "it really depends on your specific situation" and replaced it with the actual driver (custom templates vs. theme reuse) and a real price range.

Verified against

Claude Claude Sonnet 5 · 2026-08-06

Gemini Gemini 3 Pro · 2026-07-23

Changelog

  • 2026-07-23 Initial publish, verified against Gemini.
  • 2026-08-06 Re-verified against Claude Sonnet 5; added the explicit "flag it, don’t fabricate it" guardrail after a test rewrite invented a plausible-sounding but unsupported statistic.
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