How Google Reads Your Site Structure (and Why Most Sites Confuse It)Googlebot does not read your site the way a human does. It crawls URLs, records which pages link to which, and from that link graph it infers three things: what topics you cover, which pages are most 1Aug 10 · 6 min readflamine-aeo.hashnode.dev
What Is the Right Content Length for AI Search?If you write technical content and wonder how long it should be now that AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity answer questions directly, article length is the wrong thing to optimize. Section length Jul 21 · 4 min readflamine-aeo.hashnode.dev
The Math Behind Why "AI Prompt Tracking" Can't Actually WorkA growing number of marketing tools now claim they can track the exact prompt someone typed into ChatGPT or Gemini before landing on your site. From a systems perspective this claim doesn't hold up. IJul 2 · 4 min readflamine-aeo.hashnode.dev
Entity Maps, OKF, and llms.txt: We Tested All Three on 121 Sites. None Moved AI Traffic.If you build or maintain websites, you have probably seen the pitch: drop a new machine-readable file on your site and AI tools will read it and send you traffic. Entity Maps, llms.txt, and OKF all maJun 25 · 3 min readflamine-aeo.hashnode.dev
Core Web Vitals in Plain English: Fixing LCP, CLS, and INP (and Getting AI-Agent Ready)Core Web Vitals are three scores that measure whether your page feels fast and stable to real users. They act as a ranking tiebreaker: when content quality is equal, the faster, steadier page wins. FiJun 17 · 2 min readflamine-aeo.hashnode.dev
