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How to show up in Google AI Mode

How Google AI Mode's query fan-out works, why pages that answer related sub-questions get found, and what Google's own docs say you need.

Robots.txt 'Disallow: /' - what it blocks, including AI bots

What Disallow: / blocks and what it does not: why blocked URLs can still be indexed, when to use noindex instead, and how it applies to AI crawlers.

How to test your robots.txt for Googlebot and AI crawlers

Test robots.txt one user agent at a time: grouping, longest-match precedence, and why a passing result still does not prove a crawler can reach your pages.

Measuring SEO

How long does SEO take to work?

Google says some SEO changes show in hours and others take months. Why crawling, indexing and competition set the pace, and how to check progress honestly.

An AEO strategy you can run in 90 days

A 90-day AEO plan grounded in Google's docs: prove crawler access, map buyer questions, write answer-first passages, add matching structured data, then measure.

SEO for dentists: a practical guide

A local-first guide for dental practices: Google Business Profile, answering Google reviews, Dentist schema, and service pages that answer patient questions.

Content SEO

The on-page SEO checklist: 20 checks for every page

Twenty on-page checks for titles, descriptions, headings, images and links, and why to run them against templates rather than one page at a time.

LLM traffic: how to track ChatGPT and AI referrals in GA4

Where GA4's AI Assistant channel puts ChatGPT visits, why AI Overviews stay in Organic Search, and how to build a custom channel group and Exploration.

How to optimise your website for AI search

A step list from Google and Microsoft guidance plus OpenAI and Anthropic crawler docs: access, crawlable text, clear answers and matching schema.

What is llms.txt, and does your site need one?

What the llms.txt proposal is, why Google Search ignores the file, who may read it, and how to write and check one without treating it as a ranking lever.

A B2B SEO strategy that produces pipeline

A B2B SEO strategy for long buying cycles: problem-aware content, real service pages, Organization markup and open access for AI search crawlers.

Measuring SEO

The monthly SEO report template

A monthly SEO report template mapped to Search Console and GA4: performance, indexing, AI traffic and a dated change log, with labelled placeholders.

Should you block AI crawlers? A decision guide

Block training bots such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot if you choose, keep AI search bots open for citations, and check your CDN is not blocking more than robots.txt says.

What is AEO (answer engine optimisation)?

AEO explained plainly: what answer engine optimisation means, why Google treats it as SEO, and the habits that make pages easy for answer engines to cite.

In-house SEO vs agency vs freelancer: which fits you

Compare in-house SEO, an agency and a freelancer by tasks, skills and access control, using Google's own hiring guidance.

AI share of voice: measuring how often AI mentions your brand

AI share of voice is a sampled metric: how to build a frozen prompt set, and what Search Console and GA4 measure first-party.

AEO vs SEO: do you need both?

AEO is a layer of SEO, not a replacement: what stays the same, what answer-first formatting adds, and what Google's own docs say about both.

The technical SEO checklist (including AI crawlers)

A technical SEO checklist from Google's documentation, plus two checks robots.txt audits miss: real server responses to crawlers and missing H1s.

Automated SEO

Does Google penalise AI-generated content?

Google does not penalise content for being AI-written. It targets low-value pages made at scale to manipulate rankings. What its guidance says.

The robots.txt rules we ship for AI crawlers (copy them)

A copyable robots.txt with separate groups for AI search bots, user fetchers and training crawlers, using only tokens from the vendors' own docs.

How to get your pages into Google AI Overviews

Google says AI Overviews need nothing beyond indexing and snippet eligibility. What that means in practice, and how to measure it in Search Console.

Measuring SEO

The SEO KPIs that actually matter

Eight SEO KPIs you can measure first-party, from clicks and average position to AI Assistant sessions, and how Search Console and Analytics calculate them.

How to choose an SEO agency: 15 questions to ask

Fifteen questions to put to any SEO agency, built on Google's own hiring advice and spam policies, plus a price and proof test for transparency.

Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode and AI crawlers: is it blocking them?

Bot Fight Mode, Block AI Bots and custom WAF rules can each stop AI crawlers. How to test which one is blocking yours, and how to allow verified bots.

What is AI visibility, and how do you measure it?

AI visibility is whether AI systems can reach, read and cite your site. How to measure the inputs and outputs, with one before and after from 18.35 to 66.35.

Crawlability vs indexability, explained

Robots.txt controls crawling, noindex controls indexing, and a 403 or 5xx response stops both in practice. How to tell which one is keeping a page out of Google.

SEO for doctors, clinics and hospitals

How doctors and clinics get found: a verified Business Profile, Physician markup, consistent practice details and condition pages written with real clinical expertise.

How to rank on Perplexity (and get cited)

Allow PerplexityBot, check your firewall as well as robots.txt, and write answer-first pages an answer engine can quote, using Perplexity's own crawler documentation.

Content SEO

SEO content writing that works for Google and AI

How to write pages people and answer engines can use: answer first, show real experience, write honest titles, and ignore word-count myths, using Google's own guidance.

Why isn't my website showing up on Google?

A diagnostic order from Google's own docs: check whether the page is indexed, rule out robots.txt, noindex and server blocks, then allow a new page time.

Is SEO dead? What the data actually says

No. Google says its AI Overviews and AI Mode are rooted in core Search ranking systems and draw on indexed pages, so SEO fundamentals still decide what gets cited.

What are answer engines, and how do they pick sources?

How Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT search and Perplexity find pages to cite, which crawler each relies on, and how to keep your site reachable.

SaaS SEO: a strategy for B2B software companies

How B2B software companies can build product, use-case, comparison and integration pages, add Organization and SoftwareApplication markup, and stay visible in AI answers.

AI Overview checker: how to see whether your site appears

A manual method to check whether AI Overviews appear for your queries and cite you, confirmed in Search Console’s generative AI performance report.

llms.txt examples and a template you can copy

A complete llms.txt example and blank template in the llmstxt.org format, what Google says the file does not do, and a checklist to validate yours.

How to hire an SEO expert (and what to check first)

Google's own hiring advice turned into a checklist: questions to ask, what an audit should include, and why read-only Search Console access comes first.

LLM SEO tools: which ones are worth using

LLM SEO tools grouped by what they measure: AI crawler access, mentions in assistants and Search Console's generative AI report, with a checklist for judging them.

OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot and ChatGPT-User: the three OpenAI bots

What each OpenAI crawler does, why a firewall rule matching "searchbot" can hide you from ChatGPT search, and how to allowlist OAI-SearchBot.

What a good SEO proposal and contract should include

Audit findings, scope, deliverables, reporting and timeline caveats, the contract clauses to check, and the promises Google says are red flags.

AI visibility case study: 18.35 to 66.35 on a frozen rubric

One client, one frozen rubric: AI Visibility 18.35 to 66.35, SEO Health 46.55 to 67.45, and the trade-off we publish too: performance fell from 48 to 28.

GPTBot: what it is, and how to allow or block it

GPTBot is OpenAI's training crawler. Blocking it opts you out of training, not ChatGPT search, which runs on OAI-SearchBot and needs its own robots.txt rule.

Outsourcing SEO to India: costs, risks and how to vet a partner

A buyer's guide built on Google's own hiring advice: grant read-only Search Console access first, read the audit for specifics, and walk away from ranking guarantees.

How to rank in ChatGPT: what we measured on a real site

A firewall rule returned 403 to OpenAI's search crawler while monitoring said all was fine. How to allow OAI-SearchBot, confirm the live response and write citable answers.

'Discovered - currently not indexed': what it means and how to fix it

Google knows the URL but has not crawled it yet. What the Search Console status means and the fixes Google documents: internal links, sitemaps, request indexing.

LLM SEO: how to get cited by large language models

LLM SEO as two jobs: let OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot and PerplexityBot reach your pages, then write passages a model can lift and cite.

AI crawlers: every AI bot, what it does and how to allow it

Training, search and user-triggered AI crawlers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Google, built from each vendor's own documentation.

How much does SEO cost in India?

What drives SEO cost in India, what low-cost packages leave out, Google's own red flags for hiring an SEO, and our published monthly price.

AEO vs GEO: what's actually different

AEO and GEO name overlapping work. What Google's own guide says, where answer boxes and AI citations differ, and one checklist for both.

Where does ChatGPT get its information?

ChatGPT draws on training data and live web fetches by three separate OpenAI crawlers. What each one does, and why blocking one does not block the rest.