Your Page Is an Empty Shell to Every AI Crawler
AI crawlers fetch the initial HTML and never run your JavaScript. If your content is rendered client-side, they see nothing to cite.
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What we learn from auditing sites for generative-engine visibility.
Why AI Cites Someone Else and Not You: The First Paragraph Decides
Retrieval works on fragments, not pages. If your opening paragraph only introduces the topic, there is nothing in it worth quoting.
Read →llms.txt: A New Convention, and Whether It's Worth Following
A Markdown file at your site root listing the pages you want cited. It costs almost nothing — and it is not a ranking factor.
Read →AI Crawlers Come in Three Kinds — Do Not Block Them All
Training, live retrieval, and user-triggered fetches are three different things. Only the second one sends you traffic.
Read →Getting Cited by AI: Three Technical Details Most Sites Miss
Crawlers see initial HTML, not the rendered page. That single difference decides whether your content gets cited.
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