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A reference for the fifteen AI crawler tokens that decide your visibility in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google, what each one actually does, and what blocking it costs you.
geo-toolsAllowing crawlers in robots.txt is permission, not proof. Your server access log is the only record of which AI bots arrived, what they fetched and what they got back.
geo-toolsCloudflare now blocks AI crawlers at the firewall for new zones, before robots.txt is ever read. Here is why a permissive robots.txt proves nothing, and exactly where to look.
geo-toolsllms.txt is widely recommended and thinly evidenced. Here is what the convention proposes, what the major AI operators actually document, and when it is still worth twenty minutes.
geo-toolsA 2024 research paper tested content edits across 10,000 queries and found which ones increased citation by generative engines. Here is what it found, and what it did not.
geo-toolsGooglebot renders your page. GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot generally do not. Here is how to measure the gap between what users see and what AI systems receive.
geo-toolsRetrieval systems split your content into chunks and hand a model one piece at a time, without your headings or the paragraph above. Here is what that does to ordinary writing.
developer-toolsOne pasted.env file or rushed commit is all it takes to leak a live API key. The steps secrets end up in code, how to scan for them in seconds, and the habits that stop it happening again.
developer-toolsOur regex generator turns example strings into a working pattern with zero AI, and that's a feature, not a shortcut. A look under the hood, and an honest case for boring algorithms.
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