AI Visibility Technical Baseline for 2026
A practical technical baseline for SEO + AEO teams shipping content that ranks in both web and AI answer engines.
Why this baseline exists
Most teams treat AI visibility like a prompt problem. It is an information architecture problem first.
The baseline
- Semantic headings and clean article markup
- Accurate metadata and canonical signals
- Structured data (
BlogPosting) - XML sitemap + RSS feed for discovery
- Static HTML output visible with JavaScript disabled
What to ship first
- One clear article template
- A repeatable author + taxonomy model
- Humanized editorial pass before publish