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Practical guides to getting your brand mentioned by ChatGPT and other AI assistants.

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How to Get Your Small Business Recommended by AI Assistants (Honestly)

Ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity "who's a good electrician in Leeds?" or "best accounting software for a small charity" and you get a confident shortlist. If you run a small business, you'd want to b

Oct 24 · 6 min readcruxstudio.hashnode.dev

How to Check if ChatGPT Mentions Your Brand: A One-Hour Manual Method

More people now ask an AI assistant for a shortlist before they search for a supplier. If someone types "best bookkeeping software for UK sole traders" into ChatGPT, the answer names a handful of prod

Oct 24 · 6 min readcruxstudio.hashnode.dev

GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot: The robots.txt Settings That Keep You Visible in AI Search

A lot of sites added User-agent: GPTBot / Disallow: / to their robots.txt to keep their content out of AI training. That's a reasonable choice. The problem is that many site owners then assume they've

Oct 24 · 6 min readcruxstudio.hashnode.dev

Is your robots.txt hiding your site from ChatGPT search? A 10-minute check

When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity or Claude "who's the best [thing] in [town]?", the assistant often runs a web search and reads pages before it answers. If its search crawler can't read your site

Oct 24 · 5 min readcruxstudio.hashnode.dev

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Crux's blogs

How to Get Your Small Business Recommended by AI Assistants (Honestly)

How to Check if ChatGPT Mentions Your Brand: A One-Hour Manual Method

GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot: The robots.txt Settings That Keep You Visible in AI Search

Is your robots.txt hiding your site from ChatGPT search? A 10-minute check

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Crux's blogs

How to Get Your Small Business Recommended by AI Assistants (Honestly)

How to Check if ChatGPT Mentions Your Brand: A One-Hour Manual Method

GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot: The robots.txt Settings That Keep You Visible in AI Search

Is your robots.txt hiding your site from ChatGPT search? A 10-minute check