AI Search
How AI assistants and AI search find, read and quote WordPress blogs: crawlers, schema, llms.txt and quotable writing, with a way to test each one.
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.
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?
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
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?
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
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
AI search optimization is four concrete jobs on a WordPress site, not a philosophy. Here is each one, with the evidence behind…
Be easy for AI to read.
Field notes from the team that runs blogs for a living, so your posts are easy for Google and AI crawlers to read. Written for businesses, bloggers and agencies. No spam, no 14-email “sequence”, just the good stuff.