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The CiteReady Blog
Practical guides on Generative Engine Optimization โ making your site visible and citable in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
GEO Basics
June 15, 2026
What is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and why your site needs it in 2026
AI assistants now answer your customers' questions before they ever hit Google. Learn what GEO is, how AI search differs from traditional search, and the concrete steps to get your site cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
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Technical GEO
June 15, 2026
Why your robots.txt is blocking AI crawlers (and how to fix it)
Most sites unknowingly block GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot in their robots.txt โ which makes them invisible in AI-generated answers. Here's which user-agents to allow, common mistakes, and ready-to-paste fixes.
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GEO Basics
June 15, 2026
Set up llms.txt in 5 minutes and get cited by ChatGPT
llms.txt is the new robots.txt for AI crawlers โ a plain-text summary of your site that tells ChatGPT and Perplexity what you're about. Here's the exact format, a ready-to-paste template, and the most common mistakes to avoid.
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Structured Data
June 15, 2026
FAQPage schema: the highest-ROI structured data for GEO
FAQPage schema presents your content in exactly the format AI assistants use to answer questions โ direct Q&A pairs that can be extracted verbatim. Here's the JSON-LD format, which questions to markup, and what to avoid.
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Content GEO
June 15, 2026
How to write content that AI assistants want to cite
Most content isn't citable by AI โ not because it's low quality, but because it's structured for human readers, not for passage extraction. Learn the writing patterns that make ChatGPT and Perplexity choose your site as a source.
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