Data Studies
Studies of AI crawlers, readiness checkers and AI answers, with the method shown so you can repeat them.
Gemini Still Tells You Which Sentence It Quoted. Nothing Else Does.
Gemini exposes the exact cited sentence on 84.1 percent of citations. Every other platform exposes zero. Google AI Mode went from 70.9…
Your Host May Be Blocking AI Crawlers Without Telling You
We found our own server returning 429 to GPTBot while robots.txt said Allow. Here is how to test yours.
Nothing Longer Than 18 Words Was Ever Cited
Across 11,346 cited sentences the longest sentence quoted was 18 words. Mean was 9.27. Here is the writing guide that falls out…
Ranking First And Being The Answer Are Now Two Different Jobs
Only 23.05 percent of AI cited URLs rank in the organic top ten. For ChatGPT it is 4.2 percent. Two competitions, one…
We Read 14 Free AI Readiness Checkers. None Of Them Check Your Content.
Fourteen tools will grade your site for AI search. Not one reads a sentence, not one writes the fix, and most judge…
llms.txt Does Not Work, And We Generate It Anyway
Every study on llms.txt found no effect. Google compared it to the keywords meta tag. Here is why we still publish one…
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.