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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.

Read Your Server Log for AI Crawlers by Hand, No Plugin Needed
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Read Your Server Log for AI Crawlers by Hand, No Plugin Needed

Your access log is the only place AI crawler activity is recorded honestly. Six commands, twenty minutes, no plugin required.

Your Rankings Held and Your Clicks Fell. Which One Actually Happened?
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Your Rankings Held and Your Clicks Fell. Which One Actually Happened?

Four different problems produce the same Search Console chart. Here is the decision tree I use on client sites to tell them…

E-E-A-T for AI Answers Is Judged One Sentence at a Time
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E-E-A-T for AI Answers Is Judged One Sentence at a Time

Google evaluates E-E-A-T across a whole site. An AI answer evaluates the sentence it is about to quote. That changes the work.

GPTBot: Should You Allow It, and Has It Even Visited?
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GPTBot: Should You Allow It, and Has It Even Visited?

GPTBot is one of three OpenAI agents. Here is what each does and how to check whether yours are blocked.

ChatGPT SEO: What Actually Changes, and What Does Not
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ChatGPT SEO: What Actually Changes, and What Does Not

Only 4.2 percent of the URLs ChatGPT cites rank in Google's top ten. That one number decides which of your SEO habits…

AI Search Optimization, Translated Into WordPress Jobs
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AI Search Optimization, Translated Into WordPress Jobs

AI search optimization is four concrete jobs on a WordPress site, not a philosophy. Here is each one, with the evidence behind…

What Zero Click Search Actually Costs a Blog
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What Zero Click Search Actually Costs a Blog

Zero click search does not lower your rankings. It lowers your clicks. Here is the arithmetic, and the Search Console pattern behind…

Host My Blog article cover reading Why search has split in two, labelled AI Search, in cream type on an orange gradient.
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The New Host My Blog, And Why Search Has Split In Two

The new site is live. Here is what changed, and why ranking on Google is no longer the same job as being…