How to Tell Which AI Agents Are Crawling Your Site (and Which to Block)
A repeatable way to identify the AI agents hitting your site, separate verified search crawlers from unverified agent traffic, and set access rules you can defend.
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How to Build a GA4 Dashboard in 2026: A 12-Card Walkthrough
A step-by-step walkthrough for Google Analytics' native dashboards: twelve cards, built in reading order, published to your Reports navigation, and verified before anyone quotes a number from it.
How to Prepare Your Product Feed for ChatGPT Shopping (September 2026)
ChatGPT now draws most shopping picks from product feeds, not web search. Nine required fields, silent-reject rules, and how to verify it worked either way.
How to Read Google Business Profile Post Views (2026 Local SEO Workflow)
Google now shows view counts on every Business Profile post, covering the past 18 months. Here is a repeatable workflow for turning those numbers into posting decisions.
Google's John Mueller Concedes Search Console Cannot Report AI Search Positions — And Asks SEOs What To Measure Instead
John Mueller confirmed that Search Console tracks generative AI placements as a single block with no per-link position, leaving SEOs without the ranking data the new AI performance report appears to promise.
What Codex, Claude Code, and ChatGPT Can Actually Do With Google Analytics Dashboards
Google Analytics dashboards ship without API support, and Google's own Analytics MCP server is read-only. Here is what Codex, Claude Code, and ChatGPT can and cannot automate around GA4 reporting.
Google Analytics Dashboards Are Live: What Changes for SEO and AI Search Reporting
Google Analytics now has built-in custom dashboards. Here is what shipped, the limits that shape how search teams should use them, and a build order for a search and AI-referral dashboard.
How to Check Brand Visibility in ChatGPT Without Reading a Blank as a Zero
In our 20 prompt test ChatGPT searched on 8 prompts and answered the other 12 from memory with no sources at all. Here is a six step check that separates a blank result from a real zero, and the agent job that keeps it running.
AI Brand Monitoring: How Many Prompts Your Watchlist Actually Needs
We ran 20 prompts across three AI surfaces and tracked where the sources came from. Five prompts found 31 percent of the source universe, ten found 54, and the twentieth still added 14 new domains. There was no plateau.
AI Visibility Checker: When the Citation Count and the Answer Disagree
Same 20 prompts, three AI surfaces, one day. Gemini cited a median of 47 sources per answer, Perplexity 20, and ChatGPT cited nothing on 12 of 20 prompts while still naming vendors. Here are the two signals a visibility checker has to keep apart.