AI Graph tags
The ai:* meta tags that tell AI engines how to read and cite your page — and how AskThis generates them.
AI Graph tags are meta tags — like Open Graph, but for answer engines. They tell AI how to read and cite your page. AskThis generates them for you; this explains what they mean.
<meta property="ai:type" content="article">
<meta property="ai:summary" content="A step-by-step pour-over method using a 1:16 ratio.">
<meta property="ai:cite_as" content="Craft & Quill">
<meta property="ai:allow" content="summarize,cite,compare">The everyday tags
| Tag | Purpose |
|---|---|
ai:type |
What the page is: article · product · business · service · saas · recipe · event · profile |
ai:summary |
Your one-sentence summary — the answer you want models to use |
ai:cite_as |
The name to attach to citations |
ai:allow |
Uses you welcome: summarize, cite, compare (comma-joined) |
How AskThis generates them
- The onboarding scan reads your key pages and proposes tags per page.
- Review and edit under Prompts → AI Graph in the dashboard.
- The WordPress and Shopify plugins inject approved tags into your
<head>automatically. - On a custom stack, copy the generated tags into your page templates — they must be server-rendered, since crawlers don’t reliably run JavaScript.
Writing a good ai:summary
Describe what’s actually on the page in one or two concrete sentences; skip superlatives. Models cross-check the summary against the page content — inflated metadata reads as spam.
Validate & go deeper
Run the free AI score against any URL to check your tags are present, well-formed, and consistent with the page. The full standard — all 20 tags and governance — lives at askthis.dev/standard; the day-to-day reference is in the developer docs.