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Google folds AI Overviews and AI Mode into Search Console totals, while Bing reports citations directly. Here is what each report measures and where each stops.
Footnotes DeskLLM visibility5 min read
The llms.txt proposal is a small markdown file with a defined format. Adoption is real, but none of the sources shows it affects AI search visibility.
Footnotes DeskAEO5 min read
Google says no special markup or files are needed for AI features. Here is what it requires, what it recommends, how to limit your content, and where the traffic shows up.
Nick LaunchesAEO6 min read
Google's Oct 15 update moves inline links higher, tests a section for official sites and adds creator profiles. Here is what it means for publishers.
Footnotes DeskAI search5 min read
The Footnotes Lab fetched robots.txt and llms.txt from every published tool and agency domain in our directory. Nearly all serve robots.txt, and very few block AI crawlers.
Footnotes LabAI discovery4 min read
What a site owner can see and do with Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control, where pay per crawl stands, and how to read crawl-to-refer ratios.
Footnotes DeskAI discovery4 min read
The Tow Center's excerpt-tracing test and the Stanford verifiability audit measure different things, but both find that AI search citations are frequently wrong.
Footnotes DeskLLM visibility5 min read
Four studies, four methods, four different answers. Here is who measured what, what each can show, and why the numbers disagree.
Nick LaunchesAEO5 min read
OpenAI, Perplexity, Anthropic, Apple, Google and Common Crawl crawlers sorted by training, search and user-requested fetches, with the robots.txt rules for each.
Footnotes DeskAI discovery4 min read