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Every journal post on ai search: sourced answers on ranking on Google and being cited by AI assistants, written with the rules PARCHMNT applies to every page.
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Does Your robots.txt Block AI Crawlers? How to Check in Two Minutes
Does my robots.txt block AI crawlers? How to check for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended, and which lines to change.
AI searchOctober 29, 2026How Do AI Assistants Choose Which Sources to Cite? Three Stages
How do AI assistants choose which sources to cite? Search first, then passages, then trust signals: what each company documents, and where each assistant looks.
AI searchOctober 29, 2026How to Get Cited by Perplexity (What Its Crawler Docs Actually Say)
Perplexity cites pages its crawler can read that answer directly. How to get cited by Perplexity: the robots.txt lines, the page shape, and where it looks.
AI searchOctober 29, 2026How to Get Your Business Mentioned in Google AI Overviews
How to get your business mentioned in Google AI Overviews: what Google's documentation requires, how much ranking matters, and what your Business Profile does.
AI searchOctober 29, 2026How to Get Your Business Recommended by Claude: Crawlers and Sources
How to get your business recommended by Claude: allow Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User, write pages whose passages carry their sources, and read the citations.
AI searchOctober 29, 2026How to Get Your Business Recommended by Gemini (Search and Maps)
How to get your business recommended by Gemini: Google says it uses Google Search and Google Maps, so your rankings, Business Profile and reviews decide.
AI searchOctober 29, 2026How to Get Your Website Recommended by ChatGPT
How to get your website recommended by ChatGPT: allow its search crawler, write answer-first pages, and get mentioned on the lists and reviews it reads.
AI searchOctober 29, 2026How to Write a Blog Post That Gets Quoted by AI (and Still Ranks on Google)
AI assistants quote pages that answer first, cite sources and stand alone. How to write a blog post that gets quoted by AI, step by step, with the evidence.
AI searchOctober 29, 2026Why Does ChatGPT Recommend My Competitor and Not Me? Four Checks
Why does ChatGPT recommend my competitor and not me? A four-step diagnosis: the crawler line, what the cited pages say, your own page, and the web around it.