Cloudflare's managed robots.txt blocks eight AI crawlers, but a developer's analysis reveals it excludes OpenAI's OAI-SearchBot and Perplexity's crawler, meaning ChatGPT search and Perplexity can stil…
Small businesses should adopt a nuanced AI crawler access policy rather than blanket allow or block decisions, according to guidance from Cloudflare, OpenAI, Perplexity, and Anthropic. The recommendat…
TollBit's H1 2026 data found that ChatGPT-User ignored explicit robots.txt disallow instructions on 54% of its scrapes and reached disallowed pages on more European publisher sites than any tracked bo…
A developer rebuilding their local business website found that technical health alone is insufficient for AI search and Local SEO, and structured data must reflect visible content. The site achieved a…
A scan of 59 Chinese cross-border brand websites found that none block OAI-SearchBot, 67.4% serve an llms.txt file, and only 1.9% carry FAQPage schema. However, four out of five llms.txt files contain…
TIME is serving AI crawlers a stripped-down markdown version of its website with ads embedded, while human visitors receive the full HTML page, according to a test by an unnamed researcher. The markdo…
A developer's guide explains how to configure Next.js sites for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), distinguishing between training crawlers like GPTBot and search bots like OAI-SearchBot. The artic…
Rudrendu Paul and Sourav Nandy released LLMScout, a zero-dependency CLI that runs 21 checks against any website to determine how well AI systems can find and cite it. The tool covers technical SEO fun…
A developer found that their site's table of contents had been invisible for months due to a legacy anchor mismatch, and that fix was part of a broader effort to get articles cited by AI search engine…
OpenAI has shipped its version of attribution for ChatGPT, but the signal is arriving through the ads door, not the webmaster-tools door, according to a survey and analysis by Duane Forrester. The det…
A developer found that roughly 27% of sites unintentionally block AI crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot at the CDN or WAF layer, even when robots.txt appears permissive. The developer warns that clien…
Google's John Mueller responded to a post on Bluesky criticizing the trend of creating separate markdown versions for AI agents, stating that a properly made website works well for both AI agents and …
A developer's experiments reveal that including a URL in a prompt can steer an LLM's output toward the content at that URL, but only if the URL and its content were part of the model's training data. …
Website owners face a dilemma over whether to block AI crawlers or measure their value first, as the proliferation of AI bots increases server costs and raises questions about ROI. SEO experts recomme…
A developer discovered that high-quality websites can be invisible to ChatGPT Search due to an eligibility problem, not a content issue. ChatGPT Search uses Microsoft Bing as its primary index, so sit…
A developer explains that Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is an engineering challenge requiring developers to ensure AI crawlers from ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity can access and render content…
Sprytools released CiteReady, a free API and web tool that audits a website's visibility to AI search assistants like ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews. The tool scores URLs 0–100 …
OrchestKit's documentation site implements a stack of standard files—llms.txt, OpenAPI specs, MCP endpoints, and .well-known identity files—to make its docs machine-readable for AI agents. The project…
Websites to make nuanced decisions about AI search crawlers rather than blocking or allowing them all indiscriminately. It distinguishes between crawlers used for search indexing, real-time AI answers…