findloc.ai blog
Practical writing on Generative Engine Optimization — how to be cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Real data from our own implementation, not vendor whitepapers.
- ·9 minWhy findloc.ai is a public database of AI recommendations, not another GEO tool
Most GEO products sell you software to "optimise" your site. We do something different: every week we ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini what they recommend across 42+ local markets, and we publish the answers. The database is the asset; the dashboard is just one front-end.
#GEO #AI search #database #local business #methodology - ·9 minWhich AI bots actually crawl small-business sites in 2026? 48,800+ hits analyzed
Of 12 AI bots we track in robots.txt and log per request, only 7 have actually crawled findloc.ai. GPTBot alone is 73.8% of all traffic. ChatGPT-User — fired only when a human clicks a link inside a ChatGPT answer — fired 38 times, our cleanest evidence of real citation. Five bots (Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, claude-web, Perplexity-User, Bytespider) have not visited at all.
#GEO #AI crawlers #data #GPTBot #ClaudeBot - ·11 minGEO playbook 2026: how to get cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity (with what worked for us)
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) makes your business citable by AI search engines. Eight things matter: schema.org markup, FAQ pages, /llms.txt, AI-crawler allowlist in robots.txt, sitemap, server-rendered HTML, consistent NAP data, and fresh content. We rebuilt findloc.ai around these and tracked the result.
#GEO #AI search #local business #SEO