[SpikeyCoder]

I get that pushback. My goal with this index/report wasn't to write a new 'AI SEO' playbook or encourage people to start gaming the system. The goal was simply to shine a bit of light on what's going on. Right now, there is a massive information asymmetry: AI companies are turning their assistants into primary search engines, but webmasters have zero visibility into whether their sites are actually being cited in those live answers.

You're absolutely right to be concerned about an arms race. If the data showed that doing X, Y, and Z guaranteed a citation, we'd be right back to the worst days of keyword stuffing.

But what this data actually shows is the opposite: even if you do everything 'right' (allow the retrieval bots, provide perfect machine-readable schema, don't block anything), you still have a 94.8% chance of never being cited. How LLMs cite is entirely opaque.

I built this to give site owners a baseline measurement of what is actually happening to their content today (as a free, anonymous view), so they can make an informed decision on whether keeping their doors open to these crawlers is actually worth it.