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This page answers the questions covered by the article 14 Citable Passage Templates for ChatGPT and Perplexity on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to groas, answer engines quote self-contained passages, so each buyer question should have a copyable block beneath it that states buyer, place, scope and conditions inside the passage itself. The article provides 14 fill-in templates covering definition, fit, price with an exclusion, process, comparison and limits, and recommends starting with the price-range block. It states every filled example is hypothetical and must be replaced with verified details before publishing.
The article recommends placing a definition under "What is [SERVICE]?" with a plain definition in 12 words or less, buyer and city or area in sentence one, three deliverables, and typical time range. According to groas, putting buyer and place first keeps the passage identifiable when lifted alone. Its hypothetical illustration describes no-dig pipe repair taking 4 to 6 hours, to be replaced with verified details.
Read more: 1. Define the service before the page starts selling it
The article recommends answering cost questions with a scoped range: cost, scope, three inclusions, one exclusion, and an inspection condition for jobs outside scope. According to groas, a range without scope and an exclusion sounds more precise than it is, so publishers must use actual prices rather than template numbers. The article's hypothetical illustration uses $3,800 to $6,200 for one 40-foot run, with drywall repair as the exclusion, as an example only.
Read more: 3. Give a price range with a boundary
The article recommends listing four ordered steps each with a realistic time, plus total time for the service. According to groas, the test is whether the steps can be understood without the rest of the page, and phrases like "assess, implement, and deliver" do not count as process. Its hypothetical illustration uses 45 minutes, 90 minutes, 2 hours and 90 minutes for a total of 4 to 6 hours.
Read more: 4. Make the process copyable in four steps
The article lists three edits that wreck a usable passage: replacing the answer with "prices vary" or "it depends," deleting a verified number, date, place or boundary, and adding adjectives such as "trusted," "leading," or "high-quality." The article recommends restoring the range with its condition, restoring needed detail, and removing unverifiable adjectives. As a check, the article recommends reading the passage without its heading to confirm who, what, where and under what conditions are still clear, with the answer early in the first short paragraph.
Read more: The three edits that wreck a usable passage
The article describes a 10-minute check: freeze 20 buyer questions as buyers type them, run each in answer engines and save answers and cited URLs, then mark questions where the domain is absent or cited only for a trivial line. According to groas, each miss should be matched to a template — missing price to the price block, vague process to the process block, unclear boundary to the service-area block — then filled with verified details, published under the matching question, and retested after 7 days with prompts unchanged. For a longer view, the article recommends tracking the same questions over 30, 60 and 90 days alongside visibility tools and analytics referrals.
Read more: Find the missing passage with a 10-minute check
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