The original title is "GEO for Developers: Get Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity"

Short summary

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the practice of structuring content so AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity cite it directly. The author outlines five practical steps: answer questions in the first 40-60 words, phrase headings as questions, make sections self-contained, include sourced statistics, and configure robots.txt to allow citation bots while optionally blocking training crawlers. The post also covers llms.txt adoption, cross-platform publishing limitations, and the trade-off between blocking GPTBot and maintaining search visibility.

• •Answer questions in first 40-60 words; ~44% of AI quotes come from the top third of a page
• •Allow OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot in robots.txt for citations; optionally block GPTBot and ClaudeBot training crawlers
• •llms.txt has 844k+ adopters but no major AI company confirms reading it; structure and sourcing matter more

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