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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Type your blog name into ChatGPT and read the answer. Five failure modes, each pointing at a different fix. Takes fifteen seconds.
Be the answer AI gives.
Field notes from the team that runs blogs for a living, so your posts get cited by AI. Written for businesses, bloggers and agencies. No spam, no 14-email “sequence”, just the good stuff.