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"How do we get our website to show up in ChatGPT?" I hear this question on almost every client call these days. But most teams aren't sure what it actually takes to get their brand mentioned or cited in AI answers.

Some start by adding an llms.txt file, tick the box, and move on, hoping that's enough. Meanwhile, the bigger problems are hiding in the SEO audit they alrea...


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Most sites should run a full SEO audit every three to six months, with lighter checks in between. Large sites, online stores and anything that changes daily need a tighter rhythm (monthly full audits and weekly monitoring). A small site that rarely changes can get by with a full audit twice a year.

That's the short answer. The longer one is that "how often" depends less...


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The crawl finished. Your report says 1,400 issues, a health score that you'd like to bump up, and a long list of warnings with names like "low text-to-code ratio" and "canonical chain detected."

This is where a lot of audits stop. Not because the findings are wrong, but because nobody knows which ones matter. The report goes into a shared folder. A few easy fixes get do...


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The first step to building your own website is to build a sitemap for it. In this post, we’ll take a look at what sitemaps are, why you need them, and the best tools you can use to generate sitemaps.

There are two major types of sitemaps for websites: visual si...


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Most websites don’t lose search visibility in one dramatic moment. Small, minor things tend to add up: A plugin update duplicates your meta tags. A redirect chain grows one hop at a time. Or maybe a new product page launches without a single internal link pointing to it.

Nobody notices until traffic dips, and it's not always a single cause.

An SEO site audit...


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