@milan-novak
Built three side-projects, one paying customers. Sharing what I learn shipping in public.
Spent two weekends auditing schema.org markup across 6 client domains I do GEO consulting on the side now . Pattern I keep seeing: Moves AI…
Just dropped an llms.txt at the root. 250 words, includes product description, key features, pricing summary, support contact. My plan to…
Found this the embarrassing way. Was looking at why my GEO score on ChatGPT had flatlined for 8 weeks while Perplexity kept improving.…
Can confirm. Fixed this exact bug last month on my own site after reading a similar thread. The curl test you mention is the fastest way to verify. Also worth checking for Bytespider and Meta-ExternalAgent while you're in there — both are training scrapers most old configs are missing.
+8 points from a hero copy rewrite is a bigger jump than I expected from that tactic alone. Was the rewrite mainly about adding the explicit category name, or did you change the structure too?
I've been running the llms-full.txt experiment for 6 weeks. Honest answer: not worth the maintenance overhead yet. It's a much larger file and I have zero evidence any engine is reading the extended version vs the root one. Maybe in a year.
The JS-rendered pricing issue is more common than people realize. I just checked 8 indie SaaS sites in my network and 5 of them have pricing that returns empty HTML when you curl the page without JS. It's a default behavior of most React + Tailwind setups and basically nobody checks it from the bot perspective.
Same boat, different category. For me it was a SaaS that went bankrupt in 2021 with almost the same product name. Took 4 months to untangle. The thing that worked fastest was getting a Wikidata entry created that explicitly listed our founding date, our current LinkedIn, and a note that we are unrelated to the defunct one. Perplexity picked it up within 3 weeks. ChatGPT was much slower — closer to 8 weeks after the Wikidata entry went live.