Free tool
Answer-First Checker
Answer engines lift the block directly under a question heading. This finds every question heading on your page and measures whether the text under it is a complete answer in twenty to forty words, or a warm-up paragraph. Runs entirely in your browser.
Key takeaways
- What does this tool do? It finds every question heading on your page and measures whether the text directly under it is a complete answer in 20 to 40 words.
- Why does that matter? Answer engines lift the block directly under a question heading. If that block is a warm-up paragraph, there is nothing clean to quote.
- Why 20 to 40 words? Short enough to be quoted whole, long enough to stand on its own once separated from the rest of the page.
- What does it flag? Headings with no text under them, answers that are too short or too long, and answers that open with a warm-up instead of the answer.
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Why twenty to forty words. Short enough to be quoted whole, long enough to be a real answer. Under twenty and it is usually a fragment that needs the rest of the page to make sense. Over forty and an engine has to choose which part to lift, which means it may choose badly or skip the page for one that made the choice easier.
Self-contained matters as much as length. An answer that opens with "it depends" or "as mentioned above" cannot be lifted, because it does not stand on its own once separated from the page. The checker flags those openings.
This is one of eight points. The full check is on the Human-Verified AI Content page, and the AI Visibility Score runs all eight against a live site.
Questions about this tool
No, but it helps. The tool also recognizes headings that begin with who, what, when, where, why, how, do, is, can and similar. A heading phrased the way a customer would ask is the one an engine matches to a query.
Phrases like it depends, as mentioned above, in this article, or there are many factors. They read naturally in place and become meaningless the moment an engine lifts them out of the page.
Not by the ranking systems. The cost is different: a long block forces an engine to choose which part to quote, and it may choose badly or skip your page for one that made the choice easier. Answer first, then explain at whatever length the topic needs.
Yes. In plain-text mode any line ending in a question mark is treated as a heading and the next non-empty line as its answer.
No. They do different jobs. The schema tells an engine the page contains questions and answers; the answer-first block is what makes the answer worth lifting. Do both.
No, it is one of eight points. The AI Visibility Score runs all eight against a live site.