GEO Guides: Get Your Business Recommended by AI
Plain-English guides to getting your business recommended by AI assistants. Every factual claim about crawlers links to the vendor’s own documentation.
AI Crawlers Explained: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot
What GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot and Google-Extended do, and whether to allow or block each one in robots.txt.
Read →How to Get Your Business Recommended by ChatGPT: A Checklist
A practical checklist for small businesses to become visible in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini answers: access, clarity, proof and weekly measurement.
Read →How AI Assistants Choose Which Businesses to Recommend
How ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude find businesses to recommend: what the engines document, what they keep secret, and what you can influence.
Read →llms.txt: What It Is and How to Write One for Your Site
llms.txt is a proposed plain-markdown file that tells AI assistants what your site is about. What the spec says, a worked example and a six-step guide.
Read →What Is GEO? Generative Engine Optimization Explained
GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is how you get ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini to name your business. A plain-English guide and a six-step start.
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How do we write our guides?
Each guide starts with the answer, defines its key term in one sentence and ends with concrete steps and an FAQ. Whenever we state what a crawler does or what a search engine requires, we link the vendor's own documentation, and where we are giving our working approach rather than a documented rule, we say so.
Which guide should you read first?
If the terms are new, begin with what GEO is. If you want to act today, follow the checklist for getting recommended by ChatGPT and use the free AI crawler checker. Our glossary defines every term in plain English.
How current are they?
Every guide shows when it was published and last updated. Crawler names and behaviour change, so please check the linked vendor page before relying on a detail. If you spot an error, tell us through the contact page.