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Notes on AI search visibility
How AI assistants find, read and quote web pages — written by the people building Citevana, with the free tools running inside the posts so you can try each idea on your own site.
- · 3 min readThe AI crawlers hitting your site, and what each one is actually forSixteen AI user agents, three jobs between them, and one mistake almost everyone makes: blocking the retrieval bot when they meant to block the training bot.By The Citevana team
- · 3 min readWhat an llms.txt file is, and whether you actually need onellms.txt is a Markdown index of your best pages, written for language models. Google has said it does not use it. Here is what the file is for anyway, and when it earns its place.By The Citevana team
- · 4 min readWhy an AI assistant cites one page and not yoursRetrieval, reranking and the answer itself are three separate steps, and most pages fail at a different one than their owner assumes. A working theory of what actually gets quoted.By The Citevana team
- · 3 min readAI Overviews and your click-through rate: what the numbers sayBeing cited in an AI Overview roughly doubles your clicks versus not being cited — and still leaves you well behind a result with no AI Overview at all. What to do with that.By The Citevana team