Alex
AI Engineer at Citedon
Alex is an AI engineer at Citedon, where they work on the scan engine that measures how readable a site is to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude, and on the fixes that make a site agent-ready and keep it that way as the models change. Alex writes about answer engine optimization, structured data, and the practical work of staying readable to AI engines.
Posts by Alex
- Aug 6, 2026Why Some Pages Get Mentioned in AI Answers and Others Do NotSeparating the part engines publish from the part they never will. What the documented requirements actually say, and why most pages fail before selection is even on the table.
- Aug 6, 2026What Does "Cited" Actually Mean in AI Tools?Five different things get sold to you as a citation, and they are not comparable. The ladder, what each rung verifies against, and which ones are honest.
- Aug 6, 2026Why Is My Site Not Showing Up in Perplexity?Perplexity runs its own crawler and index, so the reasons it skips you are not ChatGPT's reasons. The diagnostic list, sourced to Perplexity's own docs.
- Aug 6, 2026Why Is My Site Not Appearing in Google AI Overviews?Google publishes more about this than any other engine, including that AI Overviews often do not trigger at all. The diagnostic order, quoted from Google.
- Aug 6, 2026How to Monitor Your Brand Mentions in AI AnswersA method you can run by hand, the tool categories that automate it, and the four things monitoring genuinely cannot tell you no matter what you pay.
- Aug 6, 2026llms.txt vs llms-full.txt: What Each File Does and Whether You Need BothOne of these two files is in the published spec. The other is a tooling convention that documentation platforms popularised. Here is what each one actually contains, and the honest state of engine support.
- Aug 6, 2026Is Google AI Overview the Same as Gemini?They share a model family and almost nothing else. Here is what separates the AI Overview in Google Search from the Gemini app, and why a page can be read by one and skipped by the other.
- Aug 6, 2026How AI Assistants Choose Which Local Businesses to MentionNo engine publishes its local selection logic, but the inputs are documented, and most are not on your website. The mechanism, and the part you control.
- Aug 6, 2026How to Check If Your Website Shows Up in AI SearchFour ways to check, ordered by how much you can trust them, plus the honest limit on all of them: nobody can measure your full presence in AI search, including us.
- Jul 30, 2026A List of the AI Answer Engines in 2026 (and What Each One Actually Does)The AI engines people actually ask questions in, what each one reads, and which of them show their sources. Checked and dated, with the uncertainty left in.
- Jun 7, 2026The Best AI Visibility and Citation Tools in 2026 (Honest Roundup)A straight comparison of the tools that track and improve how AI engines see your site, including where each one fits and where Citedon does not.
- Jun 2, 2026Measuring vs Fixing: What to Look For in an AI Citation ToolMost AI citation tools measure and report. A few also fix readiness and maintain it as things drift. Here is how to tell which job you are actually buying.
- May 26, 2026AI Search for Lead Gen: Getting Found for Insurance and Loan QueriesBuyers ask an AI engine about insurance and loans before they ever fill a form. Here is whether engines can read your page when they build that answer, and why readiness matters most in regulated finance.
- May 19, 2026Readable by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude: a Per-Engine Readiness GuideEach engine reads a page a little differently. Here is what makes you readable and eligible across all four, and why the durable bet is the common layer, measured.
- May 12, 2026Make Your WordPress Site AI-Ready Without Replacing Yoast or Rank MathYou do not need to rip out your SEO plugin to be readable by AI engines. Here is how to add the machine-readable layer on top of what you already run.
- May 5, 2026Why Isn't My Site Showing Up in ChatGPT? A Diagnostic ChecklistA concrete, checkable list of the reasons ChatGPT skips a site, and how to tell which one is yours in about a minute.
- Apr 28, 2026The Schema That Makes Your Pages Machine-ReadableSchema is how a page describes itself to a machine. Here is the markup that makes your pages readable to AI engines, and the honest limit of what it can do.
- Apr 16, 2026How AI Engines Decide What to RecommendNobody outside the labs knows the exact ranking. But the input signals an engine can read are visible and controllable. Here is what they are.
- Apr 9, 2026AI Answers Are Eating the Click. Can Engines Even Read Your Page?More searches resolve inside the answer, no click needed. The question that decides your future is whether AI engines can read your page when they build that answer.
- Apr 2, 2026What Answer Engine Optimization Actually Is (A 2026 Field Guide)AEO is not a growth hack. It is making your pages machine-readable, then checking whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude can actually read them.