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Guides and comparisons for the RankReady plugin and AI SEO on WordPress, including how it runs next to Yoast, Rank Math and AIOSEO.

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Blocking or Allowing 29 AI Crawlers, and the robots.txt Trap That Exposes You

robots.txt matching is most-specific-wins, not additive. Give a crawler its own group and every wildcard rule you wrote silently stops applying to…

Sep 14, 2026 · 7 min read
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Markdown Copies of Your Posts: Who Reads Them and How to Serve Them Safely

Content negotiation reaches coding agents only. Distinct.md URLs carry the rest. Here is how to serve both without poisoning your cache.

Sep 14, 2026 · 8 min read
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Structured Data in WordPress: Article, FAQPage, Speakable and Person

What each of the four AI-era schema types is actually for, the markup for each, and the one that you should deliberately…

Sep 14, 2026 · 8 min read
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The Five Layer AI SEO Audit, Run by Hand With curl

Five layers in dependency order, each with a command you can run today. Fix layer one before you touch layer four, or…

Sep 13, 2026 · 8 min read
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RankReady

Adding Schema in WordPress Without Duplicating What Yoast Already Writes

Find out what schema your SEO plugin already emits, then add only the AI-era types it misses. With a runnable script to…

Sep 13, 2026 · 7 min read
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How to Generate an llms.txt on WordPress, and Whether It Is Worth It

Generate a valid llms.txt on WordPress, verify it with curl, and read the honest evidence on whether the file does anything at…

Sep 13, 2026 · 8 min read
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GEO, AEO And AI SEO: Three Names, And Whether The Distinction Matters

Three acronyms, one work list. The naming argument is mostly noise, but there is one place the distinction earns its keep.

Sep 5, 2026 · 7 min read
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What AI SEO Actually Means, And Which Parts Are Sold To You Dishonestly

Four claims in this category do not survive contact with the evidence. One of them is a feature we ship ourselves. Here…

Sep 5, 2026 · 8 min read
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Should You Block AI Crawlers Or Let Them In? The Case For Both

The argument for blocking GPTBot is stronger than most marketers admit. The argument against it is more specific than most publishers realise.

Sep 4, 2026 · 7 min read
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AI Visibility Tools: What Monitoring Buys You, And What It Does Not

Monitoring tells you whether an assistant named you. It cannot tell you why, and it cannot change the answer. Here is the…

Sep 4, 2026 · 7 min read