Extraction Readiness Audit

A page can rank well and still retrieve poorly — because retrieval systems chunk your content before any query is known, and only sections that stand alone survive synthesis. This audit gives you a fast, repeatable way to tell whether a page is actually extraction-ready, in under ten minutes. Created by Beatrice Gamba for the AI Search & Agentic SEO course, it turns the principles of Lesson 3.1 into five concrete checks you can run on any page.

You are auditing one thing: whether any 400-word contiguous passage is independently coherent — no broken references, clear inline attribution, single-topic focus. The audit walks through five checks: heading specificity (every H2 and H3 should read as a standalone search query), a broken-reference scan (catching “as noted above”, “see below”), inline attribution, single-topic focus, and scope. Checks 1 and 2 come first because they catch the highest-frequency failures and need only Ctrl+F. Each check has clear pass/fail criteria.

Use this for:
‧ Diagnosing why a well-ranking page still is not being cited in AI answers
‧ Checking whether any passage of a page can stand alone as an extractable chunk
‧ Catching broken references and vague headings that break retrieval
‧ Prioritising fixes — the two fastest checks catch the most common failures
‧ Running a consistent, ten-minute audit across your key pages

This is perfect for content strategists, editors and SEOs who need a quick, objective way to tell whether their content is structured for retrieval — no tools required beyond a browser and Ctrl+F.