How to Get Cited by ChatGPT in 2026 (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, and Proof)
The documented path to ChatGPT citations: allow the right OpenAI bots, write answers a model can lift, add schema, earn authority, and verify with server logs.
Category: Answer Engine Optimization
How to Verify a Real AI Crawler vs a Spoofed Bot
A user-agent string is trivially faked. Verify GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot by IP range and forward-confirmed reverse DNS. Exact steps inside.
How to Get Cited by Perplexity in 2026 (Freshness, Sources, PerplexityBot)
Perplexity cites fresh, well-sourced pages its crawler can reach. Allow PerplexityBot, show dates, back claims with data, structure for extraction, and verify with logs.
AEO vs GEO vs SEO: The 2026 Differences That Actually Matter
SEO ranks links, AEO wins the answer box, GEO wins the sentence an AI writes about you. Clear definitions, when each matters, and how to measure crawler access in 2026.
Google-Extended and GoogleOther Explained: How They Differ From Googlebot
Google-Extended is a robots.txt control token that decides whether your Google-crawled content can be used for Gemini AI, and it is not a separate crawler with its own user agent. Google-Extended is a robots.txt token, not a crawler. It has no user agent and fetches nothing. It only tells Google whether content already crawled by […]
How to Measure AEO Results in 2026: Server Logs vs Prompt Sampling
You cannot improve what you cannot measure. Prompt sampling is noisy; server-log crawler data is ground truth. What to track, and how citAEOtion reports it.
Answer Engine Optimization in 2026: A Guide for SEOs Using AI Crawler Data
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is structuring content so AI engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity read, trust, and cite it. SEO wins when you rank; AEO wins when you become the answer - and AI-search visitors converted at 4.4 times the rate of organic in a 2025 Semrush analysis. Quick answer: Answer engine optimization gets […]