Does llms.txt actually work? We checked 30 days of server logs
We counted every request for llms.txt on a news site for 30 days. AI assistants made none. What the file is, who really fetches it, and what to do.
How to tell whether ChatGPT, Perplexity or Claude is actually using your website
Your own server can show when ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity read a page for a person, and when someone clicked. No visibility score can. Here is how.
Is your host blocking AI bots? And is your cache hiding them?
A cache hides AI bot visits from every WordPress counter. Hosts and CDNs block bots before WordPress runs. One two-minute test tells you which is happening.
AI crawlers on a WordPress site. 26 names, and which ones actually turned up
Every block list names 20 or 30 AI crawlers. We recorded two WordPress sites for a month and ranked which of the 26 names actually turned up, which never did, and how many visits used a real bot's name from an address its company does not list.
How to track AI traffic in Google Analytics, and why so much of it never shows up
Google Analytics added an AI Assistant channel in May 2026, and it still misses most of what AI does with your site. Bots never run its script, a third of AI visitors arrive with no referrer, and AI Overviews count as Google. Here is how to set GA4 up properly and what only a count on your own site can add.
ClaudeBot is hammering your server. Here is what it is doing and how to slow it down
ClaudeBot collects pages that may train Anthropic's Claude models. What it actually did on two ordinary WordPress sites this month, how to check a visit is real, and three ways to slow or block it without blocking the Anthropic bots that send you readers.
Should you block AI bots? It depends which of the three jobs they are doing
AI bots do three different jobs on your site. Training crawls give nothing back, search crawls let assistants find you later, and live reads turn into visitors. Here is which to block, which to keep, and how to do it on WordPress.
Can you find out which prompts sent ChatGPT to your site?
What you can actually know from your own site, what you can only estimate, and how to do both without wasting money. Every week someone asks a version of this question in an SEO or AEO forum: Is there a tool that shows the actual prompts where my website is cited in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity … Continued