AI visibility guides for people who need the system to make sense.
index: guides · 51 published
Practical, research-grounded walkthroughs for making your site visible and citable to AI answer engines. No guaranteed-ranking promises — just the technical and content signals that help models find and quote you.
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Foundations
AI SEO, GEO, llms.txt, and crawler access.
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Citability
How answer engines choose sources and references.
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Execution
Checklists and implementation paths for real sites.
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How to tell if ChatGPT and Perplexity are citing your brand.
Three ways to know if AI engines cite your brand: a 10-minute manual check, a free automated check, and ongoing monitoring — plus what to do per verdict.
published: June 11, 2026
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Entity-based authority: why five pages beat one strong page
AI engines map entities and multi-page topic coverage, not keywords. How topic clusters, pillar pages, and internal links build the authority that earns citations.
published: June 11, 2026
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Multimodal GEO: making images and video citable
Multimodal AI engines reach images, video, and audio through their text scaffolding: alt text, captions, VideoObject schema, subtitle tracks, and transcripts. A practical guide.
published: June 11, 2026
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Generative Engine Optimization: A Practical Guide to GEO
Learn what Generative Engine Optimization is, how GEO differs from SEO, and how to make your site crawlable, understandable and citable by AI search engines.
published: June 10, 2026
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What Is llms.txt? A Practical Guide for AI Search Visibility
llms.txt is a Markdown file at your domain root that orients AI systems to your key pages. Format, example, and adoption data from 360 audited sites.
published: June 10, 2026
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AI visibility checklist: how to make your website easier to find, cite, and recommend
A practical checklist of the technical and content signals that decide whether AI answer engines can find, parse, and cite your site, organized by category.
published: June 5, 2026
Free tools
Use the tools when a guide turns into an implementation task.
cost: $0 · no account
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Free AI SEO audit
Check crawler access, schema, llms.txt, content quality, AI discovery, and entity signals before prioritizing fixes.
Audit
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ChatGPT visibility checker
Use this path when the question is whether ChatGPT can understand, mention, or cite a website.
Visibility
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Perplexity citation checker
Inspect source-backed answers and see whether Perplexity-style results cite your domain or competitors.
Citations
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Free llms.txt generator
Generate a starter llms.txt from a sitemap, then publish the editable Markdown at the domain root.
Tool
Pages for commercial questions
Use these when the guide topic maps to a buyer, SaaS, WordPress, or monitoring workflow.
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AI SEO audit for SaaS
Audit product, pricing, comparison, alternative, and docs pages before buyer-intent prompts send users elsewhere.
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ChatGPT visibility audit
Find the access, entity, schema, or content blocker that keeps a page out of ChatGPT-style answers.
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Perplexity citation monitoring
Move from one citation snapshot to recurring checks for source losses and competitor replacements.
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llms.txt generator for WordPress
Generate the file, publish it at the WordPress domain root, then audit AI discovery and crawler access.
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