AEO for Law Firms: Getting Cited When Clients Ask AI for a Lawyer
A practical guide to AEO for law firms: answer-first practice pages, clear firm signals, AI crawler access, and advertising rules.
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Why Analytics Overcount AI Bots: A Verification Guide
Seven reasons AI bot numbers drift upward, and a verification routine that produces crawler figures you can defend to a client.
AI Crawler Traffic Spikes: What They Mean and How to React
How to read an AI crawler traffic spike, tell training bots from citation bots, and respond with caching and edge limits instead of blanket blocks.
Markdown for AI: Why Answer Engines Read Clean Text First
Why answer engines prefer clean Markdown over rendered HTML, and how edge conversion, llms.txt, and simple structure help your pages get read and cited.
IndexNow for WordPress: Get New Pages to Bing and Copilot Faster
IndexNow for WordPress tells Bing and other participating engines about new and updated pages instantly; here is how to set it up and prove the pings lead to real crawls.
PetalBot: What Huawei's Crawler Wants From Your Site
PetalBot builds the index behind Petal Search and Huawei's AI Search; here is what it crawls, how to verify it, and how to control it.
Meta-ExternalAgent: Meta's AI Crawler Explained
Meta-ExternalAgent is the Meta AI crawler documented for model training and product indexing; here is how it identifies itself, how to manage it, and how to verify real visits.
Applebot-Extended Explained: AI Training, Siri, and Your Content
Applebot-Extended does not crawl; it is the robots.txt token that keeps your content out of Apple's AI training while Applebot keeps you in Siri and Spotlight.
Amazonbot Explained: What Amazon's Crawler Takes and Whether to Allow It
Amazonbot crawls for Amazon and may feed its AI training, while Amzn-SearchBot handles Alexa search, so you can block one and keep the other.
Perplexity-User vs PerplexityBot: Which One Hit Your Site
Perplexity-User is Perplexity's user-triggered fetcher; here is what it does, how it treats robots.txt, and how it differs from PerplexityBot.
Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot and ClaudeBot: Anthropic's Crawlers Explained
Claude-User is Anthropic's user-triggered fetcher; here is how it differs from Claude-SearchBot and ClaudeBot and how to control each one.
How to Get Cited by Gemini: Tactics That Actually Work
A practical guide to earning citations in the Gemini app, from the Google-Extended robots.txt setting to crawl access, answer structure, and credibility signals.
Claude Citations: How to Get Your Site Cited by Claude
How Claude citations work, which Anthropic agents fetch the pages Claude cites, and how to make your content easy to quote.
How to Get Cited by Microsoft Copilot
Copilot citations start with Bing indexing, then reward pages whose sections answer one question each and can be quoted on their own.
How to Track ChatGPT Referral Traffic in Google Analytics 4
ChatGPT referral traffic arrives in GA4 tagged utm_source=chatgpt.com; here is how to find it, give it its own channel, and pair it with crawler data.
Bytespider: What ByteDance's Crawler Does on Your Site
Bytespider is ByteDance's high-volume web crawler, and because its name is heavily impersonated, your logs matter more than its user agent when deciding whether to block it.