The Anatomy of an AI-Quotable Definition Block: How to Write for Perplexity
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August 14, 2026
For over two decades, the objective of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) was simple: convince
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Search is becoming answers. We publish what we measure.
Eighty-seven articles on search, paid media and building sites that machines can actually read — plus three original studies with the raw data attached.
87Articles published
3Original studies
1,499Rows of open data
CC BY 4.0Datasets reusable
Original research
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These are the pieces we would want you to read first. Each one is a scan we ran ourselves, with the full per-row dataset published so you can check the working.
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llms.txt Explained: Is It Worth Your Time Yet?
Ashish Khan
August 14, 2026
What the file does, who reads it, and an honest view of its current adoption.
Indexable but Undiscovered: When a Page is Missing From Your Sitemap
Sakshi Kumari
August 12, 2026
A perfect page nobody can find. How discovery actually works and where sitemaps still matter.
Redirect Chains: The Crawl Budget You Are Wasting on Nothing
Ashish Khan
August 9, 2026
One hop is fine. Thousands of hops across a site is a tax you pay on every crawl.
Pixel width, not character count: how Google actually truncates titles
Ashish Khan
August 7, 2026
Why a 60-character title in capitals gets cut and a 70-character one does not.
Suite is not Ste: why directories think you are two businesses
Sakshi Kumari
August 5, 2026
Machines match business details on exact strings. The formatting differences that fragment a local listing.
Orphan pages: the URLs nothing on your site links to
Sakshi Kumari
August 2, 2026
Navigation links are not internal linking. How to find pages with no editorial support and what to do about them.
Why your canonical tag might not be read at all
Ashish Khan
July 31, 2026
Attribute order, conflicting signals and self-reference. The canonical mistakes that quietly de-index pages.
The noindex you cannot see: X-Robots-Tag and disappearing pages
Ashish Khan
July 29, 2026
A noindex sent as an HTTP header renders nothing in the page source. How to find it and why pages vanish without explanation.
We Scanned 148 Businesses in 20 Cities. Only 16% Sign Their Work.
Ashish Khan
July 27, 2026
A 148-site study across 20 cities and five countries. Structured data is near-universal at 85%. Author attribution sits at 16.2% – and India leads the world on it.
Only 3% of Top Websites Are Structurally Quotable by AI: 243 Sites Scored
Sakshi Kumari
July 26, 2026
We scored 243 of the world’s most-visited websites on whether an AI can extract a clean answer from them. The median score was 45 out of 100.
The Web Is Blocking AI Training, Not AI Search: What 506 Top Sites Actually Do
Ashish Khan
July 26, 2026
We checked the robots.txt of 506 of the world’s most-visited websites against 14 AI crawlers. Sites block AI training crawlers roughly twice as often as retrieval crawlers.
Keyword Research Guide: How to Find the Right Keywords for SEO
Ashish Khan
July 24, 2026
A step-by-step keyword research guide: how to find keywords, evaluate search volume and competition, analyze search intent, and prioritize your keyword list.
SEO for Hotels: How to Increase Direct Bookings from Search
Ashish Khan
July 24, 2026
A complete guide to SEO for hotels: how to increase direct bookings from Google search, optimize your Google Business Profile, build travel directory citations, create room and amenity pages, and reduce OTA commission dependency.
Google Business Profile Optimization: A Complete Guide
Samruddhi Kadam
July 24, 2026
A complete guide to Google Business Profile optimization: how to claim, fill out every field, add photos, collect reviews, post updates, and track performance.
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