Should You Block AI Crawlers? A Founder’s Decision Guide
Separate model training, AI-search discovery, user-requested retrieval, and private access before choosing crawler rules or enforcement.
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Bing Citation Share Is Not Market Share: How to Read AI Performance
Use Bing Citation Share as a query-level citation ratio, not a market-share, ranking, traffic, or authority metric. Pair it with Intents, Topics, Compare, referrals, and first-party evidence.
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Google Product.category and Sale Dates: Map Merchant Center Fields to Schema
Map Merchant Center product type and Google product category values to Product.category, then align sale price dates with Offer and PriceSpecification fields.
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Google Review Snippets: Free Products and Paid Reviews Need Prominent Disclosure
Audit real reviewer experience, benefits, prominent disclosures, visible-page parity, and aggregate-rating math before marking reviews up for Google.
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ChatGPT Product Feeds: Paid Inventory Is Not Organic ChatGPT SEO
Separate OpenAI organic commerce feeds from Ads Manager product feeds, then audit freshness, crawler access, landing-page parity, and outcomes without calling paid eligibility organic SEO.
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You.com Highlights vs Full-Page Extraction: A Reproducible Citation Test
You.com now lets Search API users request relevant highlights or full-page HTML and Markdown. Use this protocol to compare citation support, answer coverage, latency, and tokens without inventing a winner.
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Only 1% Click AI Overview Sources? What a 900-Person Study Actually Shows
A 900-person US browsing study observed fewer result clicks and more session endings when AI Overviews appeared. Here is the denominator, study design, and limit behind the 1% source-click figure.
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The Same AI Search Engine Can Cite Different Sources on Web and App
A 160,860-record Chinese-language study shows why interface belongs in every AI visibility observation.
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ChatGPT Sends Outbound Clicks in 5.2% of Sessions—But That Is Not a CTR
A 2026 U.S. desktop study separates ChatGPT’s session-level outbound-click rate from an estimated 9.4% reduction in traditional search use.
