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Tracking brand visibility in AI by simulating prompts? Directionally useful, but can be misleading. Siteline measures AI bot activity on your site and connects crawls → citations → referrals. Google Analytics, but for AI traffic. Forever free plan→ siteline.ai

Is your sitemap structured properly for #AIcrawlers? 🗺️ Categorize by update frequency, keep it clean & live, reference it in robots.txt, and block low-value pages. Full AI SEO blog (sitemaps, robots.txt, llms.txt & more) in comments. #GEO #AISEARCH #SEO

Most AI bots don’t run JavaScript; they only read raw HTML. ✅ Good stacks: WordPress, Next.js (SSR/SSG), static sites, Webflow ❌ Risky stacks: React/Vue/Angular with CSR only On CSR? At least make your homepage static. Full technical SEO blog in comments #GEO #SEO #AIsearch

@CyrusShepard 😶

The entire SEO community

@dejanseo Feel free to pick this approach apart though, we're all ears

@dejanseo Fair point. So far we've moved the need the the most with targeted content creation and restructuring recommended actions based on: current ranking by prompt / topic, gaps website compared to competitors and importantly where we see OpenAI and Google bots consistently crawling.

TL;DR: Hello I'm Dan, I do SEO. SEO now owns the AI channel. We're doing new things like AI visibility and optimization, the new way, but we're keeping the SEO brand alive.

@dejanseo We let you track how your brand/product ranks across the major AI tools, spot content gaps between competitors, track AI Crawlers to see how AI ingests your content, and much more. We would love for you to try it out and hear your feedback on it!

@GPTrendsIO How?

@Vibhu_Ai AI search is growing fast, but SEO remains king for now. Starting to optimize for AI search today will likely pay out big in the future though!

@AliDahmash Ali, great blog on GEO! We help companies track and analyze how their brand shows up in AI search (ChatGPT, Perplexity), with insights on visibility, competitors, and trends. Would be interesting to hear your feedback on it 👀

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is here. It’s not about page-one rankings anymore, it’s about being cited + trusted by AI search engines like ChatGPT & Gemini. Are you ready for the future of search? Read my latest blog 👉 alidahmash.com/blog/generativ…

@aleyda While good for publishers, if AI crawlers can't access your content, your brand might be invisible to AI chatbots.

🚨 SEOs & Marketers: Beware that some hosting platforms are blocking AI crawlers by default without alerting website owners. I detected yesterday that this was happening with the hosting of a couple of my sites after validating that there were server connection refusal errors to AI bots. I got in touch and their support explained me that: "The growth of AI tools has led to a higher demand for content to train models and make predictions. While some AI companies are clear about their web scraping bots, others are not and the volume of requests from these AI bots and crawlers is too significant to be ignored. To handle this, we’ve added AI bots to a list, which completely blocks their traffic to reduce unwanted load on the sites." While I can understand these reasons, especially if the business model of the sites rely on content access, is also critical that hosting providers are clear about this to their customers rather than blocking by default without alerting and allowing customers to easily opt-out and/or configure which AI crawlers to allow. Thankfully, this was quickly solved; and as you can see in the screenshots, all AI crawlers but the ClaudeBot (which I need to follow up further about) are now allowed to crawl to these sites after requesting it. If you haven't recently checked if AI crawlers are able to crawl or not your site pages, go and check asap! It's also fundamental to start monitoring your server log files closely. You can use free AI bots crawl checkers for a quick validation: maxbraglia.com/ai-bot-analyzer

@aleyda Very Good checklist, Aleyda. Many of these topics also come out of the GEO audit GPTrends offers! Perhaps you can try out our free trial and see if the actionable insights are interesting for you.

The AI Search Content Optimization Checklist [With Google Sheets to copy/paste] 👇 I’ve created an AI Search Content Optimization Checklist, going through the most important aspects to take into account to optimize your content for AI search answers along with their importance and how to take action, going through: 1. Optimize for Chunk-Level Retrieval 2. Optimize for Answer Synthesis 3. Optimize for Citation-Worthiness 4. Optimize for Topical Breadth and Depth 5. Optimize for Multi-Modal Support 6. Optimize for Content Authoritativeness Signals 7. Optimize for Personalization Resilient Content 8. Optimize for content crawlability and indexability Check it out and access the Google Sheets here: aleydasolis.com/en/ai-search/a…

@ViperChill Search traffic may be declining, but the shift is also a chance to get ahead of the curve before AI-answer visibility becomes as competitive as Google rankings are today, starting to look way more like Perplexity / ChatGPT with AI Mode and AI Overview. We built GPTrends for this!

Here's a full overview of what public companies are currently saying about AI & SEO. If I could sum up the hours of transcripts I've listened to and read over the past few weeks, it would be this. "Search traffic is down. We see opportunities in getting traffic from AI-answer platforms and we're preparing for that. Traffic from those sources is small but converting better. Where we can, we're making deals with the platforms to enhance our visibility and that of our customers (where relevant). We want to reduce our reliance on search by creating better relationships with our audience, growing on social media and utilising email and events, but we're by no means giving up on it. We've had traffic challenges in the past and this is no different. We also see AI as an opportunity to improve our processes and operations." I've admittedly simplified some of the points, but there's no denying the comments overall swing towards the negative. This is a tough topic to comment on because on one hand I feel ready and excited for the marketing challenge going forward, and all the opportunities there will be for those that are being proactive. On the other hand, there are obviously lots of businesses which have been severely impacted over the last few years. Not every brand can just suddenly switch to other sources of traffic and still generate close to the same amount of revenue. That's all I'll say on this for now, as it's something I could (and probably will) write many thousands of words on. I just like keeping track of what those companies that generally dominate search results say about it, and hope you found it interesting too. 🤝

@gaganghotra_ It does feel like llm.txt is more of a nice to have, but making sure your robots.txt is well positioned for AI crawlersis a must: clearly defined, updated, pointing towards essential content

in a meeting earlier today someone brought up that none of these highly cited in AI answers sites have implemented llms.txt

@gaganghotra_ Very cute!

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@sarahkb125 @otterlyAI @AmIOnAI Thank you for covering us, Sarah! Hopefully, GPTrends gave you some actionable steps from the insights. If you have any further feedback, feel free to reach out to us!

3/ From Graphite's tool directory: - @otterlyAI: Clunky UX, manual keywords. - @AmIOnAI: Better experience with scheduled reports, but feels manually run. Felt vibe coded so I could do better. - @GPTrendsIO: Similar to Profound but prioritizes insights. I need charts.

Today I'm sharing exactly which AEO tools I've tried. Yes, this is my honest feedback. And no, this was not sponsored. 🧵

@mattdiggityseo We agree, the smart move is to prepare for both! That's why we started GPTrends: we track how your company appears across Gemini, Google AI overview and other AI apps. We give you actionable tips to optimize in this fast-evolving landscape! Would love for you to try it out!

Everyone's panicking about AI killing SEO… Meanwhile, AI search drives less than 1% of traffic to most websites. SEO expert Glenn Gabe just dropped some reality-checking data that should calm everyone down. After setting up AI search tracking across multiple sites, he found something shocking: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and all AI search tools combined drive less than 0.5% of traffic for most websites. Google organic search? Still 70-90% of total traffic. Here's what he discovered across different site types: • B2C ecommerce site: AI search = 0.3%, Google organic = 78% • News publisher: AI search = 0.4%, Google organic = 82% • Health/medical site: AI search = 0.2%, Google organic = 86% • Niche vertical site: AI search = 0.3%, Google organic = 75% AI search is still tiny today, but it's growing 300% year-over-year. Meanwhile, Google organic still pays the bills. The smart move is preparing for both. The best part? Most AI search optimization tactics stem from good SEO practices. Quality content, strong technical SEO, and user experience matter for both Google and AI search. Your years of SEO experience aren’t worthless. They’re more valuable than ever.

@R_Demidchuk Awesome list! For anyone focused on SEO beyond Google (which should be everyone) GPTrends should be included in this overview. we track how your company appears across ChatGPT and other AI apps and give you actionable tips to optimize in this fast-evolving landscape!

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