AI SEO
Visibility in AI answers, generative engine optimization and AI-era content.
Keep key content in the raw HTML
Retrieval systems often read the first response, not the DOM.
mediumAllow AI crawlers in robots
A blanket disallow blocks every assistant by inheritance.
lowPublish an llms.txt file
A curation experiment, not a ranking tactic.
mediumMake pages citable by AI answers
Answer first, evidence second, caveats third.
mediumWrite clear entity names consistently
One brand name, applied everywhere, resolves to one entity.
mediumAdd about and contact trust pages
Show who is behind the site and how to reach them.
mediumKeep schema consistent with page content
Markup that contradicts the visible page is a policy risk.
lowTrack AI referrals in analytics
Group assistant referrers so the traffic is visible at all.
mediumBrand your named frameworks for AI attribution
Prefix your framework with your brand name and repeat the exact phrase everywhere you publish.
@nicholasdulaitmediumAdd review-sourced customer results to pages for AI quotes
Mine G2 and Capterra reviews for specific customer results and place them on matching pages.
@denohawarimediumFilter keywords for AI Overviews before you target them
Read the AI Overview for each keyword: if the answer satisfies the query, chase the mention, not the click.
@nicholasdulaitmediumRewrite top-of-page answers so AI assistants can quote them
Ask Claude to quote the answer from a page; if it cannot, rewrite the opening as a direct answer.
@denohawarimediumAudit and fix what AI engines say about your brand
Ask each AI engine what your brand does and costs, then correct every wrong claim where it originated.
@denohawarimediumBuild an AI entity-association benchmark for your brand
List every brand, product, feature and person an AI could name, then write the descriptors you want attached.
@nicholasdulaitmediumMap which source types each AI engine cites for buyers
Run 10 buyer questions through four AI engines and log the sources each one cites.
@denohawarihighUse Google Search Console's AI Search Guidance to Win AI Traffic
Google now surfaces guidance inside Search Console on how businesses can earn traffic from AI Search, and it reportedly shows whether a given business is included.
@alexgrobermanmediumCreate a dedicated reviews domain to earn AI review citations
A separate brand-reviews site gives assistants one clear page to pull review answers from.
Policy risk
@tarasshynmediumCorroborate the same verifiable facts across channels for LLM citations
Repeat identical sourced facts on your blog, YouTube, social and press releases so AI models can verify them.
@jespernissenseohighAllow AI crawlers in robots.txt so ChatGPT can cite the site
A leftover block for AI bots in robots.txt can stop ChatGPT from reading or recommending your pages.
@denohawarilowList your SaaS in the Official MCP Registry
A registry listing puts your MCP server where AI agents and clients look up tools.
@tarasshynhighCapture and Measure Revenue From ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Traffic
A brand reportedly earned more than $50,000 from ChatGPT, Google and Perplexity-driven traffic after applying an article's recommendations.
@alexgrobermanmediumSee the AI grounding queries Bing uses for your site
Bing Webmaster Tools shows the retrieval phrases AI answer engines actually search with.
@isocialwebseomediumStructure page sections so AI models can lift and cite them
Open each section with the answer and make every H2 stand alone so a model can lift it.
@nicholasdulaitmediumSort AI visibility gaps into six buckets before fixing them
Classify every place an AI assistant ignores or misdescribes you into one of six gap types.
@nicholasdulaitYour agent can apply every AI SEO tip in one session.
The MCP server reads your repository, filters this category down to what applies, and returns the ordered steps with their checks.