AI crawler access: the technical layer of AI search
Which AI bots exist, what each one actually controls, why robots.txt is only half the answer, and how to check whether assistants can reach your pages.
How AI reads the web
Notes on answer engine optimization, generative visibility, and what actually moves the needle on a page.
The 40–60 word answer block, and how to write one
The highest-weighted answer-readiness signal is a passage that answers its own heading in one breath. What it is, how to write one, how to check it.
What an answer engine reads when it reads your page
A walk through what actually gets extracted from a page when an AI system reads it, and which parts of your HTML never make the trip.
Five things that keep a good page out of AI answers
Pages that rank fine and still never get cited usually share the same five faults. Each one is fixable in an afternoon.