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AI discoverability, explained.

Practical guides on AI visibility, structured data, llms.txt, and how to make sure AI agents find, understand, and recommend your business.

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AI Visibility

Why Won't ChatGPT or Gemini Recommend Your Marketing Agency?

Most agency websites are built to impress a human scrolling through case studies, not an AI agent reading raw HTML. Here is what ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini actually see, and the fixes that get an agency back on a client's AI-assisted shortlist.

Oct 15, 2026 · 8 minRead →
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AI Visibility

Google Search Console's AI Report: What It Still Misses

Google Search Console now reports AI Overview and AI Mode impressions and clicks, but it only covers Google. Here is what still needs to go in a client AI visibility report, and how agencies can build it once and reuse it across every account.

Oct 13, 2026 · 8 minRead →
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AI Visibility

Soft 404s: Why a 'Page Not Found' That Returns 200 Confuses AI Agents

A soft 404 returns 200 OK for a page that should not exist, and AI agents trust that status code over anything the page actually says. Here is how to find one, and fix it.

Oct 7, 2026 · 7 minRead →
Dark robots.txt code editor illustration highlighting User-agent rules for OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, and ChatGPT-User, beside the title: OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, the AI crawlers your robots.txt needs to know.
AI Visibility

OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User: A robots.txt Guide

GPTBot and ClaudeBot train models. OAI-SearchBot and Claude-SearchBot power AI search. Claude-User and ChatGPT-User only fire on a live, user-triggered request, and OpenAI's own docs say one of them ignores robots.txt entirely.

Oct 4, 2026 · 8 minRead →
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AI Visibility

Can AI Crawlers Run JavaScript? What Agents Actually See on Your Site

Most AI crawlers read raw HTML and never execute JavaScript, so content that only appears after your app hydrates is invisible to them. Here is how to test what an agent actually sees on your site and how to fix it with server-side rendering.

Sep 25, 2026 · 8 minRead →
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Agent Infrastructure

Which Online Stores Can AI Agents Actually Buy From Right Now?

Google's Universal Commerce Protocol, OpenAI's Agentic Commerce Protocol, and Shopify's agent checkout endpoint are all live with real retailers in 2026. Here is what an ecommerce store's product data needs before an AI agent will actually complete a purchase.

Sep 23, 2026 · 8 minRead →
Illustration of an AI retrieval candidate pool with most company nodes dimmed out and one new startup highlighted in amber, beside the headline: why won't AI recommend your startup, on Faro's dark dot-grid background.
AI Visibility

Why Won't ChatGPT or Gemini Recommend Your Startup?

New companies get skipped by AI recommendation engines not because of weak content, but because retrieval systems rarely surface anything without prior interaction history. A 2026 study puts numbers on the gap, and this piece lays out what founders can actually do about it.

Sep 21, 2026 · 9 minRead →
Bar chart comparing AI Overview citation share for Healthline, WebMD, GoodRx, and PMC against an unlabeled bar for an individual healthcare practice, next to the headline Why AI recommends WebMD over your practice.
AI Visibility

Why Does AI Recommend WebMD Instead of Your Practice?

Individual healthcare practices are not going to outrank Healthline or WebMD for generic health questions, but branded and local AI queries are a different, winnable fight. Here is how structured data and consistent listings change the odds.

Sep 17, 2026 · 8 minRead →
Faro feature graphic showing RealEstateAgent structured data code and a warning that an IDX-syndicated listing is out of date
AI Visibility

Will AI Recommend Your Real Estate Agency, or a Competitor's?

Real estate is a high-consideration category, so AI agents check agents the way they check law firms and financial advisors: for consistent, verifiable credentials across every public record, not just the agent's own site.

Sep 15, 2026 · 9 minRead →
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