How an AI Decides Who It Cites
AI search doesn't rank ten links — it assembles one answer and names a few sources. So how does it pick them? Six checks a page passes (or fails) on the way to being cited — and what each one means for your site.
AI SearchAI search doesn't rank ten links — it assembles one answer and names a few sources. So how does it pick them? Six checks a page passes (or fails) on the way to being cited — and what each one means for your site.
Vibe CodingYou can do everything right — real HTML, llms.txt, structured data — and still be invisible to AI search, because a single line in a file you've never opened is turning the crawlers away at the door. Here's how to check in two minutes.
Vibe CodingReal HTML gets your content read. llms.txt tells AI what you do. The third fix — JSON-LD structured data — states it in a form a model can lift without guessing. Here are the types that matter, and how to add them on any stack.
AI SearchYou can rank #1 on Google and still be invisible to the tools people now ask first. This is the shift from search to answers — what it means for vibe-coded sites, and why "SEO done" no longer means "findable."
AI SearchMost tools in this space cost $99–200 a month. To fix one site, that never made sense to us. Here's why SearchAudit charges $29 once to unlock every fix for a site — and when a subscription actually earns its keep.
Vibe CodingThe reason AI search engines can't read most vibe-coded sites is the same everywhere — and so is the fix. Here's how to apply the three core fixes (real HTML, llms.txt, JSON-LD) on Lovable, Bolt, v0, Next.js and WordPress — no rebuild, no monthly subscription.
AI SearchAI crawlers don't run your JavaScript, so your Lovable site can be invisible to ChatGPT and Perplexity. Here's a 20-minute, four-step fix to make your content readable — and citable.
Case StudiesWe re-ran our AI-visibility study across 301 vibe-coded sites — 199 re-tested and 102 we'd never audited before. The result replicated: 83% still score under 50. And one marker split the field in two — sites on their own domain averaged 19.5 points higher than those left on a builder's platform subdomain.
llms.txt tells AI search engines what your site is about. Almost no Lovable or Bolt site has one — here's how to create yours in about ten minutes.
Most Bolt.new sites are invisible to AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Here's why Bolt's client-side rendering breaks AI visibility — and how to fix it.
Case StudiesMost vibe-coded sites are invisible to AI. The Lovable and Bolt sites that ChatGPT can actually read share five traits — here's exactly what they did differently.
Your site looks great to humans but ChatGPT and Perplexity can't read it. Here's why AI search goes blind — and how to get your free AI Visibility Score in 60s.
Case StudiesFramer vs Lovable vs Webflow for AI SEO: we audited sites from all three. See which website builder produces the most AI-visible sites — and why it comes down to rendering.
Vibe CodingWant to check if ChatGPT can find your site? This free 60-second manual test — no tool required — shows whether AI search engines can read your site at all.
The data is brutal: most sites built with Lovable, Bolt, and v0 score below 35. We break down the exact failure patterns across 1,000 audits.
A plain-English walkthrough of client-side rendering, the empty root div, and the three changes that make your site legible to AI crawlers.
Six categories, one number. Here's exactly how we weight crawlability, schema, semantic HTML, and the rest into a 0–100 score.