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Analysis, guides, and data snapshots on AI visibility — built on PROGEOLAB's Fortune 500 telemetry. New posts weekly.

Analysis & Opinion

10 GEO Myths Debunked by Fortune 500 Data

10 Myths, 10 Specific Fortune 500 Data Points Debunking Each

2026-04-20 Data Snapshots

ads.txt in the Fortune 500: Ecopetrol Leads With 1,074 Entries

Ecopetrol Leads With 1,074 ads.txt Entries — 33 Real Adopters in the Fortune 500

2026-04-20 Analysis & Opinion

The AI Content Paradox: Why Blocking ChatGPT Makes Your Brand Story Worse

Blocking AI Doesn't Remove You From AI Answers. It Makes Them Worse.

2026-04-20 Guides & How-To

The AI Visibility Checklist: 53 Data-Backed Checks with Fortune 500 Benchmarks

Every check benchmarked against 134,000 Fortune 500 probes. 6 dimensions. Audit-ready.

2026-04-20 Analysis & Opinion

The Complete Guide to AI Visibility: What 134,000 Probes Reveal About Enterprise Readiness

134,000 probes. Three contradictions. A 5-hour transformation. The PROGEOLAB pillar.

2026-04-20 Case Studies & Analysis

Amazon's robots.txt: 47 Bots Named, 16 AI Crawlers Blocked

Amazon Names 47 Bots. 6 of Them Are Unique.

2026-04-20 Data Snapshots

The Entity Disambiguation Gap: Only 3 of 500 Fortune 500 Link to Wikidata

Only 3 of 500 Fortune 500 Companies Link to Wikidata

2026-04-20 Analysis & Opinion

AI Visibility Research FAQ: 28 Answers Backed by Fortune 500 Data

No speculation. No vendor claims. Just 28 questions answered from 134,000 Fortune 500 probes.

2026-04-20 Data Snapshots

The Fortune 500 Homepage Is 34% Text and 66% Code: What AI Actually Reads

Mean 34% text ratio. 9 homepages are fully JS-rendered and invisible to AI.

2026-04-20 Infographic

Four User Agents, Four Different Fortune 500s: The Accessibility Infographic

Four User Agents, Four Different Fortune 500s

2026-04-20 Infographic

Fortune 500 AI Accessibility by Country: The Geographic Map

The Geographic Map of Fortune 500 AI Blocking

2026-04-20 Guides & How-To

JSON-LD sameAs: How to Link Your Brand to Wikidata for AI Entity Disambiguation

Step-by-step: Apple's JSON-LD + Wikidata. A 10-Minute AI Disambiguation Fix.

2026-04-20 Data Snapshots

llms.txt Adoption in the Fortune 500: 2.8% Real, 70.6% Reported

14 real llms.txt files in the Fortune 500. 339 soft-404 placeholders. The 25× inflation factor explained.

2026-04-20 Guides & How-To

MCP, ai.txt, and agents.json: The State of Emerging AI Standards in 2026

Zero Fortune 500 Companies Have Implemented MCP

2026-04-20 Guides & How-To

robots.txt for AI Crawlers: The Complete Guide with Copy-Paste Templates

24 AI bots. 4 strategic templates. Copy-paste-ready rules with Fortune 500 benchmarks for every decision.

2026-04-20 Data Snapshots

security.txt in the Fortune 500: 15% Adoption, 4.8× AI-Readiness Correlation

security.txt: 15% Adoption, 4.8× AI-Readiness Signal

2026-04-20 Data Snapshots

Your llms.txt Adoption Numbers Are Wrong: How Soft-404s Inflate AI Metrics by 25×

41% of Fortune 500 Sites Serve Soft-404 Pages

2026-04-20 Analysis & Opinion

Tech Giants Blocking AI: The Industry That Built It, Blocks It Most

Amazon names 47 bots. Meta allows 8. Salesforce built a 205-link llms.txt and then blocked ChatGPT from reading it. The paradox, decoded.

2026-04-20 Data Snapshots

Title Tags and Meta Descriptions in the Fortune 500: 150 Brand-Only Titles, 148 Missing Metas

150 brand-only titles. 148 missing meta descriptions. 12pp GEO correlation.

2026-04-20 Case Studies & Analysis

How Volkswagen Built the Best llms.txt in the Automotive Industry

198 curated links across 5 sections — the largest llms.txt in the Fortune 500

2026-04-20 Guides & How-To

The Complete Guide to AI Bot Crawling in 2026

Everything you need to know about how GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and other AI crawlers interact with your website — and how to optimize for them.

2026-03-27 Analysis & Opinion

GEO vs SEO: The Complete Comparison for 2026

How Generative Engine Optimization differs from traditional Search Engine Optimization — and why you need both in 2026.

2026-03-27 Analysis & Opinion

How LLMs Choose Which Sites to Cite: What We Know in 2026

An analysis of how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity decide which sources to reference in their AI-generated answers.

2026-03-27 Guides & How-To

How to Implement llms.txt on Your Website: A Step-by-Step Guide

A practical guide to implementing the llms.txt standard — the emerging file that tells AI crawlers about your site structure and content.