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AI Search and Citation
Answer-engine advice is full of rituals. I test the parts a publisher can control and name the parts nobody can guarantee. None of it helps a page that ordinary search can't crawl, so the technical SEO checklist for documentation sites comes first.
llms.txt: What It Is, What It Does, and Four Real Files Checked
What an llms.txt file is, what the proposal requires, what Google, Chrome and server logs say about its use, and four real files checked against the proposal.
GPTBot, ClaudeBot and OAI-SearchBot: AI Crawlers in robots.txt
Which robots.txt rules block AI training crawlers like GPTBot and which block AI search, plus what 12 developer documentation sites allow.
AEO vs GEO vs SEO: What Changes for Developer Docs
What AEO, GEO and SEO each mean, what Google and OpenAI document about AI search, and six checks that decide whether developer docs can be found and quoted.