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Notes on getting recommended by AI.
The full archive. Everything we have published on what AI apps read, what they cite, and what moved the numbers.
does ai cite githubThe only community host in our top ten was a code repository, cited in 243 readingsdoes chatgpt cite openaiThe help centre cited in 269 readings refuses the crawlers its own robots file allowswhy does google cite itselfThree hostnames, three kinds of writing, 446, 328 and 309 readings eachduplicate hosts in citationA second hostname served the same documentation in 325 readings, and most source tables would count it twicemost cited website in ai446 of 1,260 readings cited one documentation host, and that is a fact about the questionsnative advertising on mobileNative advertising on mobilexml sitemaps generatorXML sitemaps generatoryoast meta descriptionYoast meta descriptioncontentmarketinginstituteContent Marketing InstituteranktracerRankTracer: the service closed in 2015, and the sentence it left behind is the useful partinstagram advertising pricesInstagram advertising pricesshopify affiliate softwareShopify affiliate softwareadvertising and promotionsAdvertising and promotions managersfast food advertisingFast food advertisingaffiliate advertisingAffiliate advertising programranktrackerRanktracker: the plan limit is keywords multiplied by how often you check them, and that is the whole decisionamazon prime advertisingAmazon Prime advertisingword of mouth promotionWord of mouth promotionchick fil a advertisingChick-fil-A advertisinggrocery store advertisingGrocery store advertisingmccann erickson advertisingMcCann Erickson advertisingpersuasive advertisementsPersuasive advertisementsalt text generatorAlt text generator: what the tools actually produce, the four ways to run one, and the review step that decides the qualitylog into adwordsAdWords login: the product is now Google Ads, and the problem is almost never the passworddisproving your own findingWhen a finding would be the worst possible news, that is the moment to try hardest to disprove ithardcoded defaults bugOne hardcoded default, three places, two daysassertion based testingAssert what the page must contain instead of comparing two fetcheswhy did my test passWhy our own test passedpricing in the htmlPut every currency in the documentdefault behaviour whenEvery detector has a last line, and that line decides who gets served when nothing is knownsilent failures in siteWhy your site audit reports no issuesinternal link auditThree of 790 internal links did not resolve, and all three failed differentlysitemap as source of truthA slug is a fragment and a url is a fact, so take yours from the sitemap404 empty page renderingA not found response tells you nothing about whether your pages are server renderedcrawler parity testWe fetched our own article under eleven agent names and published the bytesnews sites blocking aiA publisher that blocks eleven of fourteen AI agents and allows exactly twohelp openai com 403One help site allows all fourteen agents in robots.txt and refuses five of them at the edgehow to tell 403 from rateHow to tell a rate limiter from a refusal, after it fooled us twice in five daysis this site blocking aiIs that site blocking AI crawlers?billboard advertisingBillboard advertising companiesalt text examplesAlt text examples: worked lines for fourteen kinds of image, and the four cases where the answer is an empty altred bull advertisingRed Bull advertising: the company owns the media it advertises in, and that is what the budget buysgoogle seoGoogle SEO: the documentation Google publishes itself, what each document settles, and the order to read itsocial networkingSocial networking and advertisingstrategic pricing strategyStrategic pricing strategypaid advertising platformsPaid advertising platformschart vs table in reportingPublish the table under the chart so nobody has to ask you for the fileis my growth real or luckCut the window into monthsnew website first weekWhat belongs in a week two report for a site nobody has linked to yeteditorial rules for dataThe comparison we refuse to make on our own proof page, and the house rule that enforces itwhich case study appliesAnswer one question about your own site before you read anybody's case studydo ai answers change overA reading without a date cannot be checked against todayhow to export searchProduce the same file our proof page is built from, on your own domainhow to audit a searchSix fields that decide whether a published Search Console chart means anythinghonest marketing claimsFour louder headlines the same export would have carried, and why none of them is on the pagedays with data searchDays with data is a different field from the window, and only one of them usually gets printedbrand new domain seo testNo history, no links, no agenew domain vs establishedWhat having history changes about every number on a growth charthow to report multipleThe four readings this site holds, and what each one is allowed to answerhow many sourcesFive sites read, then eight
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