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AI search and citations.
Answers assembled by AI systems — Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity — which quote a handful of sources rather than listing ten results.
Why it matters.
Being cited depends on being quotable: a clear answer near the top of a page, specific checkable facts rather than adjectives, headings that state the question, and structured data. The systems use their own crawlers, most of which honour robots.txt, so blocking them by inheriting a template rule is a decision worth making deliberately.
How to check it yourself.
Ask an assistant the question your best customer would ask, in your city, and see who it names. It is a crude test and currently the most reliable one available.
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Straight answers.
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