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Risk: An empty H1 needs a different fix from a missing H1.

Required: Report the existing H1 as empty and do not claim it is absent.

Risk: A page with no H1 needs one clear main heading.

Required: Report the H1 as missing.

Risk: Adding another H1 would worsen a page that already has a readable H1 plus an empty one.

Required: Keep the readable H1 and report the empty duplicate separately.

Risk: Theme-wide product metadata can leak onto a homepage and create an invalid Product patch.

Required: Do not propose Product schema when the page is identified as the homepage.

Risk: A browser-rendered page can look complete while critical initial HTML is empty.

Required: Report the initial-HTML blocker without claiming every AI system is unable to understand the site.

Risk: A second Product entity can create conflicting product facts.

Required: Suppress a Product proposal when Product JSON-LD already exists.

Risk: ProductGroup already represents a product family and must not trigger a duplicate Product proposal.

Required: Suppress a Product proposal when ProductGroup JSON-LD already exists.

Risk: Duplicate Organization entities can introduce conflicting brand facts.

Required: Suppress an Organization proposal when an organization-level entity already exists.

Risk: Defaulting to USD can publish false pricing information for a non-US store.

Required: Require merchant input and never default an unknown currency to USD.

Risk: Defaulting to InStock can publish false inventory information.

Required: Require merchant input and never default unknown availability to InStock.

Risk: A valid store currency must survive proposal generation unchanged.

Required: Preserve GBP from observed product metadata.

Risk: Malformed JSON-LD may be ignored by crawlers.

Required: Report the parse failure separately from schema presence.

Risk: Missing JSON-LD does not prove search or AI systems cannot understand a business.

Required: Recommend accurate markup without making an absolute invisibility claim.

Risk: A JavaScript-added canonical can be delayed or conflict with fetched HTML.

Required: Report that the canonical is absent from the initial HTML.

Risk: URL variants can split signals when no canonical is present.

Required: Report the canonical as missing.

Risk: Blocking a search crawler prevents search indexing and related AI search visibility.

Required: Classify a Googlebot homepage block as high severity.

Risk: Blocking an answer-time citation crawler prevents that surface from fetching the page.

Required: Classify an OAI-SearchBot homepage block as high severity.

Risk: A training preference must not be mislabeled as a current search-indexing failure.

Required: Treat a GPTBot-only block as informational, not as a search blocker.