Practical guides to AI search visibility: how AI crawlers read your site, llms.txt, robots.txt for AI bots, and generative engine optimization.
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· 6 min read
AI crawlers like GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot fetch raw HTML without executing client-side JS. Here is what they actually extract from SPAs.
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How AI answer engines choose sources differently from Google, where backlinks still matter, how citations replace rankings, and how to measure AI referral traffic.
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The llms.txt format, where the file goes, how to keep it token-efficient, working examples for Next.js and static sites, and an honest account of who uses it.
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Allow the AI crawlers that get you cited, opt out of the ones that only train models, and avoid treating robots.txt as a security control. Includes a ready-made file.
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How ChatGPT Search, Perplexity and Claude find, read and cite pages, why that differs from Googlebot, and what the research says actually improves AI visibility.
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Most AI crawlers fetch raw HTML and never run your JavaScript. Here's what they actually see on a client-rendered site, how to test it, and how to fix it.