2026 How-To Library

AI-search readiness guides

Step-by-step guidance for technical access, accurate content, source support, and documented observations. Platform placement and citations are not guaranteed.

Improve AI-Search Readiness

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to multiple search and answer products. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Prepare Public Content for ChatGPT

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to OpenAI products and current crawler documentation. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Prepare Source Pages for Perplexity

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to source-linked Perplexity answers. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Google AI Overviews

Prepare Content for Google AI Overviews

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to Google Search documentation and AI Overviews. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Prepare Public Content for Claude

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to Anthropic products and current crawler documentation. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Prepare Public Content for Gemini

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to Gemini and Google's public search ecosystem. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Make Public Content Easier to Cite

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to clear claims, context, and primary sources. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Prepare Public Content for Grok

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to xAI products and changing retrieval behavior. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Microsoft Copilot

Prepare Content for Microsoft Copilot

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to Bing indexing and Microsoft Copilot. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Document and Evaluate AI Citations

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to ethical source development and recorded observations. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Implement an Experimental llms.txt File

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to the proposed llms.txt convention. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Build Useful Topical Coverage

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to connected, non-duplicative subject coverage. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Audit Website Readiness and Assistant Outputs

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to separate technical checks and query observations. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Structure Content for Clear Extraction

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to headings, concise answers, context, and sources. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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Track Identifiable AI Referral Traffic in GA4

Start with accurate public information, verify technical access, and document observations relevant to referrer-based analytics with attribution limits. These steps do not guarantee a ranking, citation, recommendation, or business result.

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