The Dark Opportunity problem: Why it is structural
Most pages that rank in Google still aren't optimized for AI search systems – they're invisible to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini even though they get thousands of impressions. I call these Dark Opportunities, and they're structural problems, not content problems. Your page ranks, humans find it, but AI can't extract a citable fact from it. The good news: once you diagnose them correctly, they're your fastest wins. One client had 94 Dark Opportunities across 734 pages; after optimizing just the top 10 using machine-readable structure and extractable claims, their AI citation rate jumped from
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