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.
Category: AI Visibility Engineering
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.
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.
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.
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.
Copilot Citations Case Study: Two Algorithm Changes, Two Recoveries
Two Microsoft Copilot changes in four weeks. Two drops in Copilot citations. Two recoveries, each ending higher. The full data from Bing Webmaster Tools.
Peec AI Alternatives: 5 AI Visibility Tools Compared for 2026
The main Peec AI alternatives are Profound, Otterly, and Scrunch, which all track brand mentions through sample prompts, plus citAEOtion, which takes the opposite approach and measures real AI crawler hits from your WordPress server logs. Peec AI alternatives include Profound, Otterly, Scrunch, and citAEOtion. Profound, Otterly, and Scrunch are prompt-based tools that send sample […]
White-Label AI Visibility Tool for Agencies
citAEOtion is a white-label AI visibility tool that reads real WordPress server traffic, classifies every AI crawler hitting your clients, and lets agencies resell the reports under their own brand. A white-label AI visibility tool for agencies is software you resell under your own name that shows which AI crawlers hit your client sites. citAEOtion […]
Best AI Visibility Tools 2026
The best AI visibility tools split into two camps: prompt-based trackers that sample AI answers, and log-based tools that measure real crawler hits in your server traffic. The best AI visibility tools in 2026 are Profound, Peec AI, Otterly, Scrunch, and citAEOtion. Profound, Peec AI, Otterly, and Scrunch are prompt-based: they ask AI models sample […]
How to Block AI Scraper Bots Without Losing AI Search Visibility
To block AI scraper bots without losing AI search visibility, separate the crawlers that take from the crawlers that refer. Disallow named training agents in robots.txt, enforce the decision at the edge where the file can be ignored, and leave the retrieval bots that feed AI answers alone. Blocking everything protects your archive and removes […]
JavaScript Rendering and AI Crawlers: Can LLMs Read Your Client-Side Content?
JavaScript rendering and AI crawlers are a poor match, because none of the major AI crawlers execute scripts before they read a page. GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, and Perplexity fetch raw HTML and stop there. Anything your framework paints into the page after load stays invisible to them. Quick answer: Testing across 23 major […]
AI Visibility Report for Clients: What to Include
An AI visibility report for clients shows where a brand appears in AI-generated answers, which sources the models cite when they build those answers, and how the brand stacks up against competitors. It replaces the old ranking conversation with a new conversation about ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Done properly, it ends with a fix list […]