Starter guides
Does an assistant recommend you?
Four short reads for people who run a newsletter, a podcast, a scheduling page, a form, a course, a membership, or a creative tool. No SEO team required. No invented citation rates.
Each guide tells you what you can check yourself, and what the companies that run these products have actually published. A manual check is one afternoon. It is a spot check of the wording, not a rank.
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Check if ChatGPT recommends your product
How to ask a buyer question on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google, and how to write down cited, mentioned, or absent without fooling yourself.
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Why an assistant recommends a competitor
Third-party pages, comparison wording, plain category language, and crawl access. What is worth fixing on your site, and what is a story someone is selling you.
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What Google says about AI Overviews
The official rules for AI Overviews and AI Mode: indexing, the Search Console control, Googlebot, snippets, and what Google says it does not require.
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llms.txt and the crawler controls
What the llms.txt proposal is, why Google says Search ignores it, and what GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended each do.