Technical AI-Visibility Practices, Ranked by Evidence

Technical practices that decide whether AI engines can reach your content at all: crawler access, rendering, and infrastructure — evidence-scored.

1. 01

   Verify AI crawlers can reach you

   9/10

   27% of sites block at least one major LLM crawler, usually unintentionally at CDN/WAF ('invisible 403'); check GPTBot/ClaudeBot/PerplexityBot in server logs

   How to implement →

   TechnicalLarge study

   Worked for meDidn't work
2. 02

   Render key content in raw HTML (SSR)

   8/10

   ClaudeBot and others struggle with client-side rendering; H1 + first paragraph must be in HTML source, not lazy-loaded or in tabs

   How to implement →

   TechnicalCommunity-tested

   Worked for meDidn't work

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