AI search invisibility: 7 reasons your site isn't cited (and how to fix each)
Most 'not cited by ChatGPT' diagnoses oversell the robots.txt fix. The seven real blockers cluster into access, extraction, and authority - here's the diagnostic for each.
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AI SEO
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How to get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude in 2026
Per-bot robots.txt rules, answer-extractable page structure, and JSON-LD schema - the three layers that actually move ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude citations in 2026.
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Free, self-hosted MCP server that reports which URLs ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Bing cite for any query. 12 tools, BYO API keys, no backend.
13 signals AI assistants use to decide what to cite
ChatGPT and Perplexity don't pick sources randomly. Here are the 13 structural and off-site signals that determine whether your page gets cited.