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Guides on making your site readable and citable by AI assistants. They cover the same checks AEOScan runs, written out so you can act on them.
June 14, 2026
AEO basics
AEO is the practice of making your site easy for AI assistants to find, read and cite. Here's what it means, why it exists now, how it differs from SEO, and the concrete signals ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity actually use.
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June 14, 2026
AEO vs SEO
SEO gets you ranked in search results; AEO gets you cited in AI answers. They share most of their technical foundation but reward different things. Here's where they overlap, where they diverge, and why you need both.
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June 14, 2026
JS rendering
AI crawlers generally don't run JavaScript. If your content only appears after the page hydrates, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity see an empty shell. Here's how to check what the bots actually receive, and how to fix it.
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June 14, 2026
Getting cited
There's no submit button for AI answers. Citations go to pages that are reachable, readable and quotable, in that order. Here's exactly what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity reward, and how to check where you stand.
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June 13, 2026
llms.txt
llms.txt is a plain-text map of your site for AI assistants, like robots.txt but for curation instead of access. Here's what it is, what goes in it, and an honest answer on whether it'll move the needle for you.
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June 13, 2026
AI crawlers
GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot read your site to answer questions about you. If they're blocked, often at the CDN rather than robots.txt, you're invisible in AI answers. Here's how to check in 30 seconds and fix it.
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