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7/23/2026

The original title is about getting articles cited by ChatGPT. Let me rewrite it to be punchy, specific, and under 12 words.
Original: What actually got our articles cited by ChatGPT (and what didn't)
Short summary
A practical deep-dive into getting content cited by AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Key findings: ensure AI crawlers can fetch your pages (fix robots.txt gotchas), add an llms.txt file, write passage-sized chunks under question-style headings, and emit clean JSON-LD without markdown syntax. The author fixed a dead table of contents caused by legacy anchor tags and re-rendered 1,600 articles.
- •Robots.txt named user-agent groups replace, not merge with, the * group — a common gotcha blocking AI citations
- •Answer engines cite passages not pages: use question-style headings, answer in first two sentences, keep chunks ~500 tokens
- •Add llms.txt, fix heading IDs for fragment addressing, and strip markdown from FAQ schema text
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