Friday, October 2, 2026

Reporting and field guides on AI search, AEO, and GEO

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Guides

Practical, tested AEO and GEO guides for getting your content found, understood, and cited by AI search engines.

  1. Guides

    Robots.txt for AI Crawlers: Which Bots to Allow, and Why

    Blocking the wrong user agent can quietly remove you from ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity answers. A field guide to the main AI crawlers, what each one does, and a sensible default.

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    What Is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)? A Plain-English Guide

    AEO is the practice of making your content easy for AI systems to find, understand, and cite. Here is how it differs from SEO, what actually moves the needle, and where to start.

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    How to Write Pages That AI Answer Engines Actually Quote

    AI systems lift passages, not pages. Six writing patterns that make your content easy to extract and safe to cite, with before-and-after examples.