Answer-first writing

Lead with the answer so AI can lift a clean passage from your page.

The best free resources

  1. The Science Of How AI Pays Attention — Kevin Indig, Search Engine Journal (from Growth Memo) (2026-02-17)
    1.2M ChatGPT answers: 44% of citations from the top third; definitive language, entities

  2. Moving from a Google-shaped Web to an Agent-shaped Web: A Refutation of Misinformation about Chunking — Mike King, iPullRank (2026-01-15)
    Self-contained, single-subject passages; embedding tests show measurable retrieval gains

  3. How big are Google's grounding chunks? — Dan Petrovic, DEJAN (2025-12-20)
    ~2,000-word grounding budget per query; density beats length. Method disputed.

  4. Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search — — (Google), Google Search Central (2026 (published May 2026))
    Google's own view: no chunking or AI rewrites needed; people-first content

  5. Google: Don't Turn Your Content Into Bite-Sized Chunks — Barry Schwartz (reporting Danny Sullivan), Search Engine Roundtable (2026-01-09)
    Counterweight: Google warns against writing a separate version for LLMs

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