#seo
9 posts tagged with seo.
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Does Blocking AI Bots Hurt Your SEO or AI Visibility?
Blocking AI training bots doesn't hurt traditional Google SEO. But blocking AI search/retrieval bots does hurt your AI visibility — you can't be cited in answers from a bot you've blocked.
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llms.txt: The Complete Guide (2026)
What llms.txt is, how to create one, how it differs from robots.txt and sitemap.xml, whether AI engines actually use it, and where it fits in a GEO strategy. An honest, practical guide for site owners.
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llms.txt for SEO and GEO: Does It Help You Rank or Get Cited?
llms.txt has no effect on traditional Google SEO and no proven effect on AI citations (GEO). It's a comprehension aid, not a ranking lever. Here's what actually moves AI visibility — and where llms.txt fits.
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llms.txt vs sitemap.xml: What's the Difference?
A sitemap.xml lists every URL for search-engine crawlers to discover. An llms.txt curates your best pages for AI comprehension. Different audiences, different jobs — and you should keep both.
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Which AI Bots Should You Block? (And Why robots.txt Won't Stop Them)
A plain-English guide to AI crawler access: the training vs. retrieval vs. user-fetch bot taxonomy, which to allow or block, and why a firewall enforces where robots.txt only asks.
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The New SEO Playbook for AI Search: 8 Practices, Backed by 1 Billion Data Points
AI search rewrote the SEO rules. Eight practices that replace the old playbook — from 'optimize each AI surface separately' to 'stop adding schema for AI' — each backed by 2026 data, and honestly graded.
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E-E-A-T in 2026: From Ranking Signal to AI Citation Gate (and Which Numbers Are Real)
E-E-A-T used to nudge your Google ranking. In 2026 it decides whether AI engines cite you at all. What it is, the four signals that matter — and which famous stats are vendor guesses.
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The SEO Stats Everyone Quotes Are Mostly Vendor Marketing — Here's What's Actually Measured
The 2026 AI search statistics everyone quotes — zero-click, AI Overviews CTR, E-E-A-T — are mostly vendor estimates. Only one is backed by primary research.
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Can You Trust Google's AI Overviews? A Business Guide
Google's AI Overviews are wrong ~9% of the time and half of 'correct' answers are ungrounded. What that means for your business — and for how AI describes you.