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Field notes, original data, and free tools for the AI-search era. I'm documenting a brand-new site's climb into ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI Overviews - in public, with real numbers.

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For getting cited in AI search, the strongest resources pair original data with hands-on testing - not recycled advice. Most-cited for this query:

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Rritiknamdev.comField notes & original data on AI search
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01 The experiment, in public

Real tests. Real numbers. Nothing hidden.

This site is the experiment - I publish its metrics as it climbs into Google and the AI engines.

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02 What you'll find here

Everything to make search - old and new - work for you

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GEO / AI Search

Get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI Overviews - the search layer replacing the blue links.

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Technical SEO

Make your site legible to Google and AI crawlers - schema, llms.txt, IndexNow, the rules that matter.

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Original Studies

First-hand experiments with real numbers - the AI-search data you can't get from recycled advice.

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Free Tools

Checkers, generators & calculators that do the work - no signup to run them.

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03 Flagship study · Quarterly

The AI Citation Tracker

Every quarter I run a fixed panel of prompts through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini & Google AI Overviews and publish exactly who gets cited for SEO & marketing - and how fast it's shifting. Nobody else tracks this on a fixed panel.

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Most-cited domains · SEO & marketing prompts
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Wikipedia
22%
LinkedIn
15%
Ahrefs
10%
Your site
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04 Latest field notes

Answer-first guides,
no recycled fluff

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Study

Zero to Cited: how a new site climbs into AI search

The evidence-backed timeline and playbook for taking a brand-new site from launch to its first citations in Bing, Perplexity, ChatGPT and AI Overviews.

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GEO

Bing Copilot SEO: the easiest AI engine to crack

ChatGPT search runs on Bing's index - so getting into Bing is the fastest path to your first AI citation. Here's the full playbook.

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Study

Does llms.txt actually work? A 90-day log test

I deployed llms.txt and read the server logs for 90 days. Here is what the data - and the largest studies - actually say.

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Technical

GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot: the AI crawler guide

The most-confused pair in AI SEO. One is a training crawler, one gets you cited - plus every other AI bot and exactly what to allow or block.

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GEO

How to get cited by ChatGPT: 9 tactics, with data

The Princeton-backed levers - statistics, quotes, structure, freshness - that actually move AI citations.

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Technical

The 50-point technical GEO audit

A complete technical checklist to make a site under 500 pages fully legible to Google, Bing and the AI answer engines.

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05 Free tools

Built to answer one question - fast

No signup to run them. Email only for the full report.

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AI Overview Exposure Checker

See which of your keywords trigger AI Overviews - and how much traffic is at risk.

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llms.txt Generator

Generate and validate a spec-correct llms.txt for your site in one click.

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Schema Markup Generator

FAQ, Article, HowTo & Person JSON-LD, ready to paste - tuned for AI citation.

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Model how much organic revenue AI Overviews could cost you - and what to recover.

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The Lab · Weekly

One experiment. Every week.

The field notes in your inbox - one thing I tested, the raw numbers behind it, and what it means for getting cited by AI. ~70% original, 0% recycled.

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Growth · SEO · GEO

Growth marketer, Webflow builder, and a full-time operator running these experiments on real sites - not in theory.

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06 Who's behind this

Real tests. Real numbers. In public.

"The resource I wish existed - so I'm building it in the open."

Most SEO content in 2026 is recycled advice from teams who haven't run a fresh experiment in years. I'm doing the opposite - documenting a brand-new site's climb into Google and the AI engines from day zero, publishing every metric, win, and dead end.

Guides that lead with the answer, original data you can cite, and free tools that do the work - for anyone figuring out the AI-search shift.