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Your robots.txt Isn't Blocking What You Think: A 2026 LLM Crawler Decoder
Blocking GPTBot doesn't stop ChatGPT from citing you, and Google-Extended isn't a crawler at all. Here's the per-bot robots.txt policy 2026 LLM crawlers actuall…
last weekYour Cover Image Is Now an AI Citation
AI search engines surface images alongside text in their answer panels — your blog cover is now part of the citation. Here's how to make it earn its place.…
2 weeks agoThe Answerable Atom: Why AI Search Engines Cite Sections, Not Pages
AI engines decompose every prompt into sub-questions and retrieve separately for each one. The unit that wins citations isn't your URL — it's a single H2 with a…
last monthReading AI Crawlers in Your Server Logs: A Practical Field Guide
Server access logs are the only verifiable record of AI crawler activity. Here's how to read GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot traffic with awk, grep, and re…
last monthGEO Isn't SEO 2.0: How to Get Cited by AI Engines in 2026
Generative Engine Optimization is the practice of structuring content so AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews retrieve and cite it. It r…
2 months agoE-E-A-T for AI Search: Why Authority Signals Decide What LLMs Cite
AI search engines like Perplexity and ChatGPT don't rank — they cite. That changes which signals matter, and E-E-A-T has quietly become the foundation of citati…
3 months ago10 Rules for Getting Cited by AI Search Engines
Traditional SEO rewards relevance. AI search rewards extractability. Here are ten concrete rules — sourced from controlled GEO research and observed citation be…
3 months ago