GitHub Add to your assistant
Menu

aeo.question-not-answered-first

InfoAEO audit

A heading asks a question but no short, direct answer follows it.

What to change

Answer each question in the first sentence or two under its heading (under about 60 words), then add detail. A direct answer right under the question is the passage answer engines find easiest to quote.

A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.

When it runs

Runs on every AEO audit: of a page, a crawl, a build directory or HTML. Info is a best practice: worth doing, rarely urgent, and --no-info leaves it out. Each finding takes 1 point off the page's score.

The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.

Run it, or skip it

Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:

npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check aeo https://example.com --rule aeo.question-not-answered-first

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_aeo_audit:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "aeo.question-not-answered-first"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable aeo.question-not-answered-first on the command, or disableRules: ["aeo.question-not-answered-first"] to a tool.

All 32 rules