Knowledge base
We've been instrumenting AI-citation tracking across a private fleet of ~30 sites since 2025. These guides are the compressed version: the 10-characteristic checklist, the scoring rubric, the infrastructure config, the surfaces we poll. Read these and your Citation Readiness Score will go up.
Foundations · 7 min read
The real 2026 levers: get into the Bing index (ChatGPT cites via Bing), allow AI retrieval crawlers, mark up your entity, write extractable content, and get corroborated. Most guides get this wrong.
Read the guide →Foundations · 7 min read
Perplexity runs its own live retrieval — so the levers differ from ChatGPT: let PerplexityBot + Perplexity-User in, be the concise best answer, stay fresh, write extractable content, and build corroborated authority.
Read the guide →Foundations · 7 min read
Gemini and AI Overviews both ground on Google’s index — so the levers differ again: be indexed by Google, allow Google-Extended, become a recognized entity (E-E-A-T + Knowledge Graph), add structured data, and publish genuinely-helpful content.
Read the guide →Foundations · 7 min read
Claude runs its own retrieval + leans on a corroborated training presence — so there’s no index to submit to: allow Anthropic’s crawlers (ClaudeBot + Claude-Web), be the clear extractable best answer, and build credible E-E-A-T authority.
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An honest comparison of the main AI visibility / GEO tools — CitationDesk, Profound, AthenaHQ, Scrunch, Peec, Otterly — by entry price, free tier, LLM coverage, and who each fits.
Read the guide →Citation strategy · 8 min read
Aleyda Solis's 10-point framework, applied page-by-page. Accessible · Useful · Recognizable · Extractable · Consistent · Corroborated · Credible · Differentiated · Fresh · Transactable.
Read the guide →Foundations · 10 min read
Five dimensions, twenty-three signals, two hard-blocks. The complete walkthrough of how we score any URL on its ability to be cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini.
Read the guide →Foundations · 9 min read
How CitationDesk projects citation potential per page archetype. 15 calibrated multipliers, the stacking math, and the four immutable hard-rejects.
Read the guide →Citation strategy · 7 min read
Most pages target either keyword ranking or AI citation. Dual Fit pages target both. Here's the four-element structural recipe and three before/after rewrite examples.
Read the guide →Citation strategy · 9 min read
The four canonical LLM surfaces, the polling techniques for each (API where available, browser automation where not), and the provenance model every citation event needs.
Read the guide →Citation strategy · 9 min read
AEO is the subset of GEO focused on Google answer surfaces. Here's the format playbook that wins featured snippets, People Also Ask boxes, AI Overviews, and voice assistants.
Read the guide →Infrastructure · 8 min read
LLMs build entity graphs from coherent signals. Here's the Person + Organization + sameAs chain that upgrades a site from "miscellaneous" to "citable named entity".
Read the guide →Infrastructure · 5 min read
What llms.txt is, why Anthropic + OpenAI + Perplexity honor it, what to put in it, and the common mistakes that void its effect.
Read the guide →Infrastructure · 7 min read
The exact robots.txt block, the two Cloudflare dashboard settings that silently override it, and the 9 AI crawlers every reference site should explicitly allow.
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