The technical layer
What the crawlers can and can't do, and the structured data that makes your pages legible to them. The unglamorous plumbing that decides whether you are even eligible to be cited.
Real-time AI indexers quit after 3 redirect hops and read lastmod as a schedule. The hop ceiling, cache-instruction status codes, honest timestamps, and IndexNow push.
9 of 12 major AI crawlers run no JavaScript runtime. The per-crawler pass/fail data, the Content Visibility Ratio test, and four SSR fixes.
How hub pages, anchor-text density, and a flat 2-3 hop crawl depth decide whether your pages are retrieved in a RAG query chain.
53% of AI-cited pages carry valid schema. The @graph architecture, four core B2B schema types, and a six-week implementation roadmap.
0 of 3 AI crawlers execute JavaScript. The breakdown of crawl logic, IP verification, and the robots.txt config that separates citation indexers from training harvesters.