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Lab tool

GEO detector

It measures the seven rules everyone repeats, and it is the only one that tells you they are not proven.

It downloads a page without running JavaScript, the way the crawler that feeds the models sees it, detects each of the seven attributes with a deterministic criterion, and reports them next to the p-value each one got in the only study that put them to the test: 73 pages six engines had cited, split into 34 cited by two or more and 39 cited once.

Run it on your site

Up to 25 pages, five workers. Results appear as each worker finishes.

No JavaScript: the report is a page of this site whose response the server keeps open and writes to as it measures. It has its own shareable URL.

The criterion, attribute by attribute

This is what the detector actually checks. Published so anyone with the same HTML gets the same values.

What each one asks for, how the detector decides whether a page meets it, and the p-value it came back with.
  1. Keyword at the start of the title

    That the term you want to rank for opens the title, not that it appears somewhere in it.

    measured as The <title> is taken, tags stripped, and the keyword looked for in its first 40 characters.

    0.2058p

  2. Keyword at the start of the h1

    The same in the heading the reader sees.

    measured as Same rule, applied to the page’s first <h1>.

    0.1615p

  3. Visible publication date

    That you can tell when it was written.

    measured as Counts if there is a datePublished or dateModified in the markup, an article:published_time, or a <time>.

    0.6383p

  4. FAQ block

    Short questions and answers a model can quote verbatim.

    measured as Counts either a FAQPage in the markup or the words «frequently asked» on the page. Either one.

    0.7837p

  5. Schema.org markup

    Stating in machine-readable form what this page is.

    measured as One application/ld+json block that parses is enough, or a schema.org itemtype.

    0.1646p

  6. URL without parameters

    A stable, clean address.

    measured as On the final URL after redirects: no «?» and not ending in .html, .php, .aspx or .jsp.

    0.2432p

  7. Text volume and subheadings

    Enough body, broken into sections.

    measured as h2 to h4 are counted, and the characters of the text with tags and scripts removed. Continuous figures.

    The only continuous one: the study published medians and never ran a test on it. This is why there are seven p-values and not eight.

    no test

  8. Visible authornot on the list

    That it is clear who wrote it.

    measured as author in the markup, or itemprop="author", rel="author", name="author" or article:author.

    0.0127p

How to run it today

The detector is the sixth module of my SEO audit toolkit. It takes URLs or a crawl file and prints one row per attribute with its verdict. Running it over the 72 HTML pages of this site is what produced the measurements in the article.

python3 geo.py https://tu-sitio.com/una-pagina/ \
  --claves "tu,tema,principal"

Read the measurements