I got tired of watching the industry treat “an AI bot fetched it” and “ChatGPT said it helps” as evidence that llms.txt does anything, so I invented a standard called cats.txt: a text file in which you formally declare your office cats, their jobs, their breeds, and how often they purr. I wrote a specification, […]
The AEO Playbook: How to Get Cited in AI Answers
Your site is probably being crawled harder than ever right now — and getting less traffic for it. That is not a contradiction or a tracking bug. It is the new shape of the web: AI crawlers visit sites thousands of times to assemble answers, and those answers get read inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, or […]