How do operators get cited by AI assistants?

Anastasiia Kyslenko structured every article so an AI could lift a ready answer, and ChatGPT and Gemini started sending visitors. Umar Gora's logs compare requests for llms.txt with reads of markdown twins. Mark Fulton's pages come from one verified dataset, with per-row content and a re-verification job, and Sunny Patel's agent reads Search Console, makes one change, logs a prediction and scores itself later.

• Make your site easy for AI assistants to cite, and measure whether it works

• How Anastasiia Kyslenko got ChatGPT and Gemini to cite her blog with zero ad budget

  She structured every article so an AI could lift a ready answer. ChatGPT and Gemini started sending visitors, with zero ad budget.

• How Umar Gora tested whether AI crawlers read llms.txt

  63 days of verified logs: zero llms.txt requests, 75 reads of markdown twins.

• How Mark Fulton built 46 programmatic SEO pages from one verified dataset

  One verified dataset, one Next.js route, per-row content and a re-verification job.

• How Sunny Patel runs SEO as an agent loop that grades its own predictions

  Reads Search Console, makes one change, logs a prediction, scores itself 7–14 days later.