Your Docs Are Your Best Sales Asset Now, and Your Marketing Site Is Dead Weight
AI assistants answer buyer questions from your docs, not your homepage. Which pages do the selling, what they must contain, and what good docs still can't fix.
Buyers now seek answers within your documentation, not on your marketing site. This shift is due to the content that documentation contains. It provides specifics, structure, and honesty about limitations that marketing pages lack. When an LLM answers a buyer's question about your industry, it relies on your owned content, not just earned media.
Your documentation pages that do the most selling contain named systems, versions, limits, migration guides, troubleshooting information, and pricing mechanics. Developers often overlook documenting how to leave, but exit cost is a top question for buyers. Many buyers ask questions about data handling, competitor usage, pricing for growth, production readiness, and support availability.
These questions buyers ask are often not answered in documentation. To improve this, turn headings into questions, provide direct answers in the first two sentences under each heading, include limits tables with real numbers, write migration-out guides, promote best issue-thread answers into docs, date every page, keep product descriptions consistent, and stop gating technical content.
Note that being cited does not guarantee you will be chosen, and after establishing good documentation, you still need to address the next step after the buyer has been named.
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