# How to Get Cited in AI Answers in 30 Days With No Budget

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This page answers the questions covered by the article [One Person, 30 Days, Zero Budget: A 10-Page AI Citation Playbook](https://groas.com/post/one-person-30-days-zero-budget-how-i-d-t) on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.

**Direct answer:** The article recommends a 30-day, zero-budget playbook for one person: record a baseline for 10 buyer questions, fix site fetch access, publish one answer page per question, and earn three outside mentions on pages the engines already cite. On Day 30, the article says to re-run the same 10 questions with the same wording and count citations with your URL attached. It frames one to three questions moving from absent to cited as a real result for that effort.

## How can one person get cited in AI answers in 30 days with zero budget?

The article recommends four jobs and nothing else in month one: pick 10 buyer questions and save what AI engines cite now, make them able to fetch the site, publish one answer page per question, and earn three outside mentions. The constraint is 10 questions, 10 pages, three mentions, and one before-and-after sheet. According to the article, a full content audit and schema project can wait until month two.

Read more: [the article](https://groas.com/post/one-person-30-days-zero-budget-how-i-d-t)

## How should I choose the 10 questions and save the baseline?

The article recommends spending 3 hours to write exactly 10 buyer questions across early research, comparison, and ready-to-buy decisions, staying close to services and places actually served. The sheet needs columns for prompt, engine, cited domains, cited URLs, and whether the business appears, using the same wording on Day 0 and Day 30. The article says to run the first pass in one sitting and circle the outside pages that appear more than once for use in Week 4.

Read more: [1. Week 1: choose 10 buyer questions and save the baseline](https://groas.com/post/one-person-30-days-zero-budget-how-i-d-t#1-week-1-choose-10-buyer-questions-and-save-the-baseline)

## What access checks should I do before writing answers?

The article recommends a 2-hour ordered check before writing, because a quotable answer cannot earn a citation if it cannot be fetched. It says to open robots.txt and check access for AI search fetchers, then load the three most important service pages in a text-only fetch to confirm price, service area, and one proof point appear as readable text. If a page fails, the article says to fix the block or rendering issue and repeat the fetch, then stop.

Read more: [2. Week 2: fix access before writing the answers](https://groas.com/post/one-person-30-days-zero-budget-how-i-d-t#2-week-2-fix-access-before-writing-the-answers)

## How should I structure the 10 answer pages?

The article recommends about 15 hours at 90 minutes per page to publish 10 pages, one per question, with the question as the H1 and a direct 40-to-60-word answer inside the first 100 words. It says to add two natural follow-up questions as H2s, including who should use the service and who should skip it, plus one dated fact with a live source link and a visible Last Updated date. The article cites 44.2% of citations coming from the first 30% of page text and about 2.1 times more citations for pages with named statistics and links.

Read more: [3. Week 3: publish 10 pages, one answer per question](https://groas.com/post/one-person-30-days-zero-budget-how-i-d-t#3-week-3-publish-10-pages-one-answer-per-question)

## How do I earn three outside mentions in Week 4?

The article caps Week 4 at 6 hours for three mentions, because ten thin listings are not a substitute for three relevant placements. The three moves in order are fixing one directory profile cited in the results so hours, prices, and service area agree, answering one real forum thread from the results with disclosure and a supportable number in the first two sentences, and pitching one comparison correction with a dated fact and link. The article says to target only pages surfaced by the 10 buyer questions and cut extra profiles and broad outreach.

Read more: [4. Week 4: earn three mentions on pages the engines already use](https://groas.com/post/one-person-30-days-zero-budget-how-i-d-t#4-week-4-earn-three-mentions-on-pages-the-engines-already-use)

## How do I measure results on Day 30?

The article recommends spending 2 hours to run the identical 10 questions with the same wording and recording brand mentions, cited domains, and cited URLs beside Day 0. A win is a citation with your URL attached, grouped into absent-to-cited, competitor still holds the citation, and nothing changed. The article states one to three questions moving in 30 days would be a real result for one person with no spend.

Read more: [5. Day 30: run the same questions and score citations, not compliments](https://groas.com/post/one-person-30-days-zero-budget-how-i-d-t#5-day-30-run-the-same-questions-and-score-citations-not-compliments)

## Sources

[1] https://groas.com/post/one-person-30-days-zero-budget-how-i-d-t (the article this page answers from)