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Test Whether AI Crawlers Can Reach Your Site, in Five curl Commands
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Test Whether AI Crawlers Can Reach Your Site, in Five curl Commands

Five commands, about four minutes, and you know whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot and the rest can actually fetch your pages.

Why AI Answers Cite Reddit and YouTube More Than Your Blog
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Why AI Answers Cite Reddit and YouTube More Than Your Blog

YouTube and Reddit are the two largest single sources in a 153,425 citation set. The arithmetic underneath that is more useful than…

What Cloudflare's Crawler Default Change Means for a WordPress Blog
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What Cloudflare’s Crawler Default Change Means for a WordPress Blog

Cloudflare now blocks Training and Agent AI crawlers by default on ad-bearing pages. The decision moved off your server.

Content Pruning for AI: What to Delete, Redirect or Refresh
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Content Pruning for AI: What to Delete, Redirect or Refresh

Stale pages are roughly 3x more likely to lose citations. Here is the decision table for every old post on your blog.

Read a Gemini Citation URL and Find the Exact Sentence It Quoted
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Read a Gemini Citation URL and Find the Exact Sentence It Quoted

Gemini attaches the quoted sentence to 84.1 percent of its citation links. Decode the URL and you get the exact words it…

Schema That Survives Being Lifted: Article, Speakable and FAQPage
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Schema That Survives Being Lifted: Article, Speakable and FAQPage

Three schema types earn their place for AI retrieval. Here is what each one actually buys you, with the JSON-LD and the…

Your Homepage Is the Wrong Page to Optimise for AI
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Your Homepage Is the Wrong Page to Optimise for AI

Homepages account for about 4 percent of AI citations. The pages that get quoted answer one question and say so in the…

The Four Things an Assistant Checks Before It Uses You as a Source
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The Four Things an Assistant Checks Before It Uses You as a Source

Four checks stand between your page and an assistant quoting it. Each one is a curl command with a pass condition.

What Happens Between an AI Answer and Your Server, Request by Request
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What Happens Between an AI Answer and Your Server, Request by Request

An AI answer that cites you is the end of a chain of ordinary HTTP requests. Here is every link in that…

The 15 Second Test: Ask an AI About Your Own Blog
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The 15 Second Test: Ask an AI About Your Own Blog

Type your blog name into ChatGPT and read the answer. Five failure modes, each pointing at a different fix. Takes fifteen seconds.