Technical SEO for AI Search
If AI can’t read it, AI can’t cite it.
What is Technical SEO for AI Search?
Technical SEO for AI search ensures that search engine and AI crawlers can access, render and understand a website, covering crawler permissions, server-side rendering, structured data, site speed, internal linking and machine-readable files like sitemaps and llms.txt.
The problem
Why it matters now.
Many sites accidentally block AI crawlers, hide content behind client-side JavaScript, or ship broken schema. The best content in the world can’t be cited if it isn’t retrievable.
What you get
Deliverables, not decks.
01
AI crawler access review
robots.txt, CDN and firewall rules audited so the right bots can reach the right content.
02
Rendering & performance
Server-rendered HTML, Core Web Vitals and crawl-budget fixes so content is fully visible on first load.
03
Schema implementation
A connected JSON-LD graph (Organization, Service, Product, Person, FAQ and Article) validated against Google’s guidelines.
04
Machine-readable files
XML sitemaps, llms.txt and clean canonical and hreflang setups.
05
Log-file analysis
Real evidence of which AI and search bots crawl which pages, and how often.
How we measure it
- Crawl coverage
- Core Web Vitals
- Valid structured data
- Indexation rate
Ideal for
- JavaScript-heavy sites
- Sites after a migration or redesign
- Large catalogs and documentation sites
FAQ
Technical SEO for AI Search questions.
Should we block AI crawlers?
Blocking training crawlers is a business decision, but blocking retrieval crawlers like OAI-SearchBot or PerplexityBot usually removes you from live AI answers. We help you choose a policy deliberately.
Does llms.txt improve rankings?
Not on its own. It is a low-cost, emerging convention that helps some AI tools understand your site. We implement it as a complement to strong content and authority, never a substitute for it.
Related services
AI Visibility Audit
Find out exactly where ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews mention you, where they mention competitors instead, and why.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
Restructure your content so AI assistants and Google can lift your answers directly: featured snippets, AI Overviews, voice and chat.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
Get named and recommended inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude answers through entity strength, authority and citable content.
Find out what AI says about you.
Run a free AI visibility audit. We ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude your buyers’ questions live and show you where you stand, in about a minute.