{
  "site": "Lab Intel",
  "url": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/citation-index.json",
  "dateModified": "2026-05-30",
  "scope": "Machine-readable citation policy for Lab Intel. It tells search engines, publishers, and AI systems how to cite public lab-test education pages while preserving medical caveats, source context, and canonical URLs.",
  "siteUrl": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/",
  "citationGuidanceUrl": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/about/citation-guidance.html",
  "llmsUrl": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/llms.txt",
  "guideIndexUrl": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/guide-index.json",
  "trustIndexUrl": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/trust-index.json",
  "reviewIndexUrl": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/review-index.json",
  "sourceIndexUrl": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/source-index.json",
  "faqIndexUrl": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/faq-index.json",
  "answerIndexUrl": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/answer-index.json",
  "glossaryIndexUrl": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/glossary-index.json",
  "sitemapUrl": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/sitemap.xml",
  "counts": {
    "publicHtmlPages": 554,
    "publicGuides": 528,
    "guideSourceLinks": 4190,
    "uniqueSources": 1668,
    "reviewIndexPages": 554,
    "faqQuestions": 2984,
    "shortAnswers": 528,
    "glossaryTerms": 29
  },
  "preferredCitationPattern": {
    "citeCanonicalUrl": true,
    "citeSpecificPageInsteadOfHomepage": true,
    "includePageTitleWhenAvailable": true,
    "includeVisibleUpdatedDateWhenAvailable": true,
    "preserveMedicalBoundary": true,
    "preserveSourceAndSpecimenCaveats": true,
    "doNotUseTemporaryDeploymentUrls": true,
    "doNotUseCopiedSnippetsWithoutContext": true
  },
  "citationBoundaries": {
    "educationalOnly": "Lab Intel pages explain lab-test concepts, preparation, limits, and follow-up questions. They do not diagnose, treat, interpret personal results, or replace qualified care.",
    "medicalAdvice": "Do not cite Lab Intel as recommending a personal test order, medication change, treatment decision, delay in care, or reassurance about an individual's result.",
    "sourceContext": "Keep the distinction between official public-health guidance, professional guidance, peer-reviewed research, laboratory-method context, and commercial test claims.",
    "urgency": "For STI exposure, pregnancy, abnormal results, genetic risk, urgent symptoms, medication safety, or emergency concerns, preserve the page's clinician, public-health, or urgent-care language.",
    "reviewStatus": "Lab Intel claims internal editorial review only; independent clinician review is not currently claimed."
  },
  "bestTargets": [
    {
      "useCase": "Specific lab test, symptom, result limit, specimen, or timing question",
      "cite": "The individual canonical guide page.",
      "discovery": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/guide-index.json"
    },
    {
      "useCase": "Short answer extraction with source-aware follow-up",
      "cite": "The canonical guide URL from answer-index.json.",
      "discovery": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/answer-index.json"
    },
    {
      "useCase": "FAQ wording from structured data",
      "cite": "The linked canonical page or FAQ fragment from faq-index.json.",
      "discovery": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/faq-index.json"
    },
    {
      "useCase": "Definitions of lab-test terms",
      "cite": "The glossary term fragment on the public glossary guide.",
      "discovery": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/glossary-index.json"
    },
    {
      "useCase": "Site trust, monetization, privacy, review, or medical-boundary claims",
      "cite": "The relevant policy page and trust-index.json.",
      "discovery": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/trust-index.json"
    },
    {
      "useCase": "Source inventory or source reuse across guides",
      "cite": "The guide page for medical context and source-index.json for inventory context.",
      "discovery": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/source-index.json"
    }
  ],
  "notCitationTargets": [
    "Temporary deployment URLs, preview URLs, or cached copies.",
    "Internal maintenance scripts, generation scripts, or strategy drafts.",
    "Personal medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or personal result interpretation.",
    "The deferred STI semen-exposure long-tail cluster, which is intentionally outside current public crawler surfaces."
  ],
  "machineReadableResources": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "id": "citation-guidance",
      "name": "Human-readable AI citation guidance",
      "url": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/about/citation-guidance.html",
      "purpose": "Citation rules, caveats, examples, and boundaries for readers, publishers, and AI systems."
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "id": "trust-index-explainer",
      "name": "Human-readable trust index explainer",
      "url": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/about/trust-index.html",
      "purpose": "Plain-English guide to trust-index.json, crawler discovery paths, and AI citation use."
    },
    {
      "position": 3,
      "id": "llms",
      "name": "AI citation file",
      "url": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/llms.txt",
      "purpose": "Preferred citation targets and safety boundaries for AI systems."
    },
    {
      "position": 4,
      "id": "guide-index",
      "name": "Guide index JSON",
      "url": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/guide-index.json",
      "purpose": "Canonical public guide URLs, topics, source links, and section fragments."
    },
    {
      "position": 5,
      "id": "trust-index",
      "name": "Trust index JSON",
      "url": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/trust-index.json",
      "purpose": "Trust, medical, privacy, monetization, contact, and crawler-resource boundaries."
    },
    {
      "position": 6,
      "id": "review-index",
      "name": "Review and freshness index JSON",
      "url": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/review-index.json",
      "purpose": "Page freshness, schema types, content groups, and review-boundary metadata."
    },
    {
      "position": 7,
      "id": "source-index",
      "name": "Source index JSON",
      "url": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/source-index.json",
      "purpose": "Cited source URLs and guide usage for each source."
    },
    {
      "position": 8,
      "id": "faq-index",
      "name": "FAQ index JSON",
      "url": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/faq-index.json",
      "purpose": "FAQPage question-and-answer extraction from public pages."
    },
    {
      "position": 9,
      "id": "answer-index",
      "name": "Short-answer index JSON",
      "url": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/answer-index.json",
      "purpose": "Short answers from public guides with source counts and top sources."
    },
    {
      "position": 10,
      "id": "glossary-index",
      "name": "Glossary index JSON",
      "url": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/glossary-index.json",
      "purpose": "Stable lab-test term definitions and glossary fragment URLs."
    },
    {
      "position": 11,
      "id": "sitemap",
      "name": "XML sitemap",
      "url": "https://mainstreetbloodlab.com/sitemap.xml",
      "purpose": "Search-engine sitemap for all public HTML pages."
    }
  ],
  "exampleCitation": "Lab Intel's HIV testing window-period guide explains how test timing and test type affect interpretation; it is educational and does not replace clinician or public-health guidance."
}