What is answer engine optimization? AEO, GEO, AI SEO and LLMO explained
Answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, AI SEO, LLMO and AI visibility, each in a sentence, with where the term came from, whether the words differ, what Google and Bing say, what people search for, and the one thing you can measure under any of them.
Do AI crawlers ask for markdown? What GPTBot, ClaudeBot and the coding agents actually request
Coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor and OpenCode send Accept text/markdown. GPTBot, ChatGPT-User and ClaudeBot fetch HTML and almost never ask. Three independent header studies, a dated status table, and 30 days of raw logs from a news site we run, including 1,291 fetches by Claude Code.
How to track AI visibility. Counts, samples and estimates, and which one you are looking at
Every AI visibility number is a count, a sample or an estimate. We ran three free checkers on a news site we run and set what they showed beside 30 days of the site's own server logs, then explain why both are true and how to track brand mentions in AI search without fooling yourself.
How to track AI Overviews traffic, and why the clicks stay hidden
A click from Google's AI Overviews or AI Mode arrives looking exactly like an ordinary Google click, and Search Console's new report shows appearances only. We show why with 27,024 page views from a news site we run, and the five numbers you can still get.
Can AI crawlers run JavaScript? What ChatGPT-User really sees on your page
No. ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read your raw HTML and never run a script. A month of WordPress logs shows what vanishes and how to check.
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.