Every site I've launched this year gets indexed almost from day one, starts pulling organic traffic, and gets picked up by ChatGPT. It isn't luck. Every page runs through the same 20-point checklist before it goes live. I broke it into 6 phases so you can run it top to bottom. Nothing goes live until it passes. Phase 1: Agentic readiness (the new layer) 1. WebMCP exposed, so AI agents can actually use the page, not just read it (test it in Chrome Canary + Lighthouse) 2. llms.txt file present at the root 3. Schema done right for the page type, validated, zero errors Phase 2: Page architecture 4. One page, one intent (no kitchen-sink pages) 5. Every service on its own dedicated page 6. Content capsule technique: question as an H2, answer it immediately 7. Front-load the answer in the first ~30% of the page 8. Add your real experience ("I tried X and got Y") Phase 3: Trust and sourcing 9. Every claim backed, ideally with a number 10. Link the source inline, not dumped at the end 11. Author bio present (and in the Person schema) Phase 4: Technical pre-flight 12. Loads fast (aim under 2.5s, check mobile too) 13. Image SEO: WebP, not PNG/JPEG, plus descriptive alt text 14. Don't block the bots (check your Cloudflare AI crawler settings) 15. Pages are actually indexable (no stray noindex) 16. Title tags + meta descriptions written for humans 17. Internal links in and out, so nothing is an orphan Phase 5: Submit and measure 18. Submit to Google Search Console and request indexing 19. Submit to Bing Webmaster Tools (it helps you show up in ChatGPT) Phase 6: Old content 20. Revive anything 10 to 16 months old: rewrite, add fresh research, update it I turned the whole thing into a Google Sheet with real checkboxes so you can tick it off on every launch. Make your own copy here: 👉 [LINK TO THE SHEET]

(RESOURCES ATTACHED) Just dropped a new video building a local business website end to end with Claude Code, Claude Design, and Astro: research → silo structure → premium design → hyper-local pages → schema → live on Cloudflare. Most AI websites look great but never rank. This one is built to actually get found.