AI visibility guides for people who need the system to make sense.
index: guides · 51 published
Practical, research-grounded walkthroughs for making your site visible and citable to AI answer engines. No guaranteed-ranking promises — just the technical and content signals that help models find and quote you.
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Foundations
AI SEO, GEO, llms.txt, and crawler access.
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Citability
How answer engines choose sources and references.
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Execution
Checklists and implementation paths for real sites.
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Do Backlinks Still Matter for AI Search Rankings?
Backlinks haven't disappeared as a trust signal, but AI answer engines weigh something else just as heavily: unlinked mentions across independent sources.
published: July 13, 2026
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What Is an AI Crawler? The Complete List of Bots to Allow in robots.txt
Not all AI bots do the same job. Here's the difference between training crawlers, retrieval bots, and on-demand fetchers — and which ones you actually need to allow.
published: July 13, 2026
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How Perplexity Chooses Sources: What We Know So Far
Perplexity cites multiple sources per answer, but not randomly. Here's what's observable about how it selects and weighs them.
published: July 12, 2026
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GEO vs Traditional SEO: 7 Key Differences Explained
Ranking position vs. citation, backlinks vs. mentions, keywords vs. entities — seven concrete ways Generative Engine Optimization actually differs from traditional SEO.
published: July 12, 2026
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llms.txt Explained: Do You Actually Need One in 2026?
llms.txt shows up in every GEO checklist. Here's what it actually does, what it doesn't do, and how to decide if your site needs one.
published: July 11, 2026
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5 Signs Your Website Isn't Being Cited by AI (and How to Fix Each One)
Zero AI referral traffic, invisible in 'best X' answers, competitors cited instead of you — here are 5 concrete signs your site is invisible to AI search, and the fix for each.
published: July 11, 2026
Free tools
Use the tools when a guide turns into an implementation task.
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Free AI SEO audit
Check crawler access, schema, llms.txt, content quality, AI discovery, and entity signals before prioritizing fixes.
Audit
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ChatGPT visibility checker
Use this path when the question is whether ChatGPT can understand, mention, or cite a website.
Visibility
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Perplexity citation checker
Inspect source-backed answers and see whether Perplexity-style results cite your domain or competitors.
Citations
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Free llms.txt generator
Generate a starter llms.txt from a sitemap, then publish the editable Markdown at the domain root.
Tool
Pages for commercial questions
Use these when the guide topic maps to a buyer, SaaS, WordPress, or monitoring workflow.
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AI SEO audit for SaaS
Audit product, pricing, comparison, alternative, and docs pages before buyer-intent prompts send users elsewhere.
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ChatGPT visibility audit
Find the access, entity, schema, or content blocker that keeps a page out of ChatGPT-style answers.
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Perplexity citation monitoring
Move from one citation snapshot to recurring checks for source losses and competitor replacements.
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llms.txt generator for WordPress
Generate the file, publish it at the WordPress domain root, then audit AI discovery and crawler access.
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