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How to Get Your Content Cited by AI Search Engines
A developer discovered their site's table of contents was invisible due to a legacy anchor mismatch. Fixing robots.txt and adding llms.txt improved AI crawler access. Structuring content with clear headings and quotable paragraphs increased citations in ChatGPT and Perplexity.
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The piece offers practical, low-cost fixes for answer engine optimization, but its advice on robots.txt handling may oversimplify complex site configurations.
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