Author: Chris Han

Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers often fails silently: 403s, 429 rate limits, and consent walls hide it from your logs. See how to reproduce, prove, and fix it.

Robots.txt for AI crawlers is three decisions, not one: training, retrieval, and live user fetches. See what each rule costs in citations, with panel data — then audit your file.

AI agents blocked by cookie banners abandon the task and answer from a competitor instead. Our 252-run test shows where agents die — and how to audit your own site.

We tagged 2,340 deep research AI citations across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity to map which report sections cite whom — and how to win a slot. See the teardown.

Voice assistant AI brand visibility runs on a 50-75 word budget that fits one brand. See how Siri, Alexa+ and Gemini Live pick that name, plus a 40-prompt audit protocol.

Agentic commerce visibility runs on five data layers: feeds, marketplaces, reviews, live page reads, checkout protocols. See which layer each AI engine trusts.

We logged 4,480 AI shopping answers: price, specs and ratings get quoted; GTINs never do. Build a product feed for AI shopping on the fields that surface.

Reviews in AI product recommendations hinge less on star average than on your most quotable complaint. Trace the review-to-caveat path, then audit your own.

Ads in ChatGPT render in labeled boxes below the answer, on Free and Go tiers only. See where paid slots appear on every assistant, how to tell them from citations, and how to keep bought impressions out of your visibility metrics.

AI recommends a marketplace over your brand site in 56% of buying answers we tracked across six engines for 60 days. Per-engine data, the four causes, and the five fixes that pulled the link back.