First paragraph after H1 is too long for AI passage extraction

The paragraph immediately after your main headline is too long and doesn't lead with a direct answer. Journalistic writing places the key point first — this is called the "inverted pyramid" structure — so readers (and AI tools) get the answer immediately without reading to the end. AI search tools like Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity extract short passages from web pages to cite as answers. They favour pages where the direct answer appears near the top of a section, within the first sentence or two after a heading. A long preamble means your content is skipped in favour of a more direct competitor. Rewrite the opening paragraph of key pages so the most important point — what you do, what the answer is, or what the reader gains — appears in the first one or two sentences. Save the background and context for later paragraphs.

Why this matters

AI search tools like Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity extract short passages from web pages to cite as answers. They favour pages where the direct answer appears near the top of a section, within the first sentence or two after a heading. A long preamble means your content is skipped in favour of a more direct competitor.

How to fix it

Rewrite the opening paragraph of key pages so the most important point — what you do, what the answer is, or what the reader gains — appears in the first one or two sentences. Save the background and context for later paragraphs.