The Structured Data Gap: Why AI Systems Cite Some Pages and Ignore Others

You've done the SEO work. Your page ranks on page one. But when someone asks ChatGPT the same question your page answers perfectly — your content isn't in the response. This isn't a ranking problem. It's a citation problem. The cause is structural. How LLMs source answers — this is not a search index When Google crawls your page, it evaluates keywords, links, and authority signals against a ranking algorithm. When ChatGPT answers a question, it draws on patterns in its training data, weighted to