Web Bot Auth for Publishers: Verify Signed AI Agents
Test signed AI-agent verification at the CDN, WAF, or origin while preserving IP, reverse-DNS, and user-agent fallback for unsigned requests.
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Changes to AI answers, source citations and publisher discovery.
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ChatGPT Search Prompt Families: Run a 31-Field Visibility Study
Measure controlled ChatGPT Search runs with prompt families, frozen environments, repeated samples, citation review and separate referral evidence.
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OpenAI Publisher Controls: Crawl Access, Citations and Referrals Are Different Outcomes
Choose OpenAI publisher controls by outcome: search discovery, training collection, title-and-link suppression, referrals, or authenticated access.
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Search, Agent and Training Bots: A Practical Access Policy for Publishers
Build a crawler policy by purpose and named bot, with separate controls for search discovery, user-directed agents, training, verification, and server protection.
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llms.txt and Google Search: What the File Does Not Change
Google says llms.txt is not needed and has no effect on Search visibility or rankings. Learn what the proposal is and how to test it without replacing established controls.
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Google Search Console Generative AI Report: How Impressions Are Counted
Google’s Generative AI report is available worldwide. Learn how AI Overview and AI Mode impressions are counted, aggregated, and commonly misread.
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How to make content easier to cite in AI search
No page can force an AI citation. This guide shows how to meet ordinary eligibility requirements, build evidence passages that travel, and measure retrieval without ranking promises.
