Insights on AEO strategy, AI-powered search, and how brands stay visible when answers replace links.
Robots.txt is an origin-scoped plain-text protocol that guides compliant crawlers but cannot secure resources or reliably control indexing. Its effect depends on retrieval status, user-agent groups, path matching, crawler-specific rules, and cache behaviour.
Publishing Markdown mirrors of your web pages for AI search visibility is a waste of time. Here's why AI crawlers stick to HTML, and what you should focus on instead.
Answer engine optimization explained simply, with practical steps to improve AI search visibility and earn more citations in answers.
llms.txt explained for real businesses: what it does, where it may help, and why most sites should fix bigger issues first.