Guides

The long answers, in plain words

Each guide is one problem: a blocked crawler, a missing file, two pages that contradict each other. No fluff, and every claim is checkable on your own site.
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Can ChatGPT see your site? A five-minute test

Do this from your own laptop, in this order. Each step tells you something different.

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When your own site gives an AI two different answers

A contradiction is worse than a missing fact, because a missing fact is only absent once.

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The robots.txt lines that quietly block AI crawlers

Most blocked sites were blocked by accident, and the file still looks fine at a glance.

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Schema is not for Google any more

Structured data used to earn a rich result. Now it decides whether you survive the cut.

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Why ChatGPT quotes some sites and ignores yours

Three files decide most of it. None of them is your homepage.

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