Technical SEO Check: Six Sites, Two llms.txt, One Bot Wall
Six sites, one text-only fetch each, Aug 29, 2026: two real llms.txt files, four 404s, one 403 wall, a missing canonical, and the check order that finds them.
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Six sites, one text-only fetch each, Aug 29, 2026: two real llms.txt files, four 404s, one 403 wall, a missing canonical, and the check order that finds them.
Eight travel giants measured Aug 25, 2026: Booking.com and Airbnb lack llms.txt, Marriott and TripAdvisor block crawlers; Kayak ships a file with FAQ schema.
Six education sites checked August 24, 2026: only Coursera ships llms.txt. MIT and Stanford ship no JSON-LD. Khan Academy returns a JS challenge page.
Six proptech homepages checked August 15: Compass and Opendoor publish llms.txt, Yardi blocks AI crawlers but ships no file, and two sites have zero schema.
Six nonprofit homepages checked in August: zero llms.txt files, three with no schema, none with AI crawler rules. Here's how to be the org AI cites.
Careers pages rarely get cited by ChatGPT — even when AI crawlers are allowed. We spot-checked six company pages: none had JobPosting schema. Fix it here.
Marketing agencies win AI search clients by leading with audit data, not decks. Here's the pitch structure, the numbers that close, and the retention loop.
AI search answers product questions before shoppers reach Google. Here's which e-commerce pages win ChatGPT citations, plus audit data from 40+ sites.
Your SEO tool can't tell you if ChatGPT would cite you. An LLM SEO check measures AI visibility across six dimensions — here's how to run one.
AI assistants answer money questions cautiously, citing only financial brands with verifiable trust signals. Here's how banks and advisors win those citations.
Keyword research for AI search is different. Learn where ChatGPT and Perplexity pull answers from, and how to find the queries your content can actually win.
Startups can't outspend big brands, but they can out-cite them. Learn the focused GEO playbook small teams use to get cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Learn how E-E-A-T signals decide AI citations. Why ChatGPT ignores low-trust sites, plus the exact checklist to get your brand cited by LLMs.
Check your LLM visibility with free AI search tools. Learn what visibility checkers measure, why ChatGPT ignores some sites, and how to fix yours.
Competitors get cited by ChatGPT while you don't. Run a competitive GEO audit to compare six dimensions of AI visibility, find the gaps, and close them.
Learn how entity optimization boosts your AI search visibility. Discover how ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity use entities to cite your content and 5 practical steps to optimize yours.
Optimize your B2B site for ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity with a GEO strategy built for complex buying cycles and technical content.
Optimized for GEO but can't prove results? Track AI referral traffic from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews to build a GEO ROI report your team trusts.
Learn how to structure content clusters that build topic authority recognized by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude. A data-driven GEO content strategy framework.
Learn why AI citations decay, how often to refresh for ChatGPT and Perplexity visibility, and which page elements to update first to keep your GEO score strong.
FAQPage schema correlates with 2x more AI citations than pages without it. Here's a complete guide to schema markup for GEO — which types to use, how to implement them, and how to audit your site for structured data gaps.
Writing for AI citation is different from writing for Google. This guide covers the specific content structure, passage length, and formatting techniques that increase your chances of being cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
Most local business websites score under 50/100 on GEO. Here's why ChatGPT overlooks them and how to fix it with schema, reviews, and service pages that AI can actually extract.
Webflow sites look great but 100% of audited Webflow sites are missing BreadcrumbList schema and 95% lack FAQPage schema. Here's a data-driven guide to fixing Webflow's biggest GEO gaps and getting your site cited by AI search engines.
68% of legal consumers use AI for initial legal research before contacting a lawyer. Learn how law firms can optimize for AI visibility with Attorney schema, citable practice area content, and GEO best practices.
The GEO services market is projected to reach $7.3 billion by 2031, yet only 23% of marketers are currently investing in it. Here's how SEO agencies can build a profitable white-label GEO audit service today.
WordPress powers 43% of the web, but most WordPress sites are invisible to AI search engines. Here's a WordPress-specific GEO optimization guide with real audit data from 39 sites — and how to fix the gaps without touching a line of PHP.
77% of patients use AI for health information before booking appointments. Learn how healthcare organizations can optimize for AI search visibility with MedicalBusiness schema, citable health content, and GEO best practices.
How do ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude, and Gemini actually decide which websites to cite? Here's the mechanism behind AI citations — and what it means for your content strategy.
SaaS products have a unique advantage in AI search — your documentation, blog, and feature pages are natural citation sources. Here's how GEO optimization works for SaaS businesses and why ignoring it means losing AI-powered traffic.
Shopify stores face unique challenges in AI search. Here's how to optimize your Shopify site for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — without touching a line of Liquid code.
Google AI Overviews now appear in 37% of search queries. Here's how to optimize your site for citation in AI-generated search results — with data from GeoCheckr's scans.
Perplexity cites sources differently than ChatGPT. If your site isn't appearing in Perplexity answers, here's what's wrong and how to fix it — based on real crawl data from GeoCheckr.
llms.txt is a simple text file that tells AI crawlers which pages matter most on your site. Here's how to create one, what to include, and why only 13-41% of sites have deployed it.
GEO is reshaping search. From ChatGPT's 100M weekly users to 30-115% visibility gains from optimization, here are the GEO statistics that matter in 2026.
AI search is reshaping content visibility faster than most teams realize. From multi-model fragmentation to structured data shifts, these are the trends defining GEO in 2026.
A 10-step GEO checklist: audit AI citability, fix robots.txt access, add FAQPage schema, restructure for answer-first writing, and monitor your score. Start today.
A 5-step GEO implementation playbook: audit AI citability, fix crawler access, add FAQPage schema, restructure for answer-first readability, and monitor your citability score.
New to Generative Engine Optimization? This beginner guide covers what GEO is, how AI citation works, and 5 steps to get cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity.
A free GEO score measures how likely your site is to be cited by AI search engines. Here's what the number means and how to check yours in 30 seconds.
GEO targets AI citations while SEO targets traditional rankings. Here are 5 key differences between GEO and SEO every content team needs to know in 2026.
How to get ChatGPT to cite your site: seven tactics ranked by impact, based on GeoCheckr scans of 200+ published articles in June 2026.
A step-by-step guide to improving your Generative Engine Optimization score across all six dimensions: citability, brand authority, content quality, technical, schema, and platform optimization.
Generative Engine Optimization is the practice of optimizing content for AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.