What AI crawlers actually read before your content (and the 3 files most sites get wrong)
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I spent five months making a consumer health site visible to AI assistants. Monthly AI citations went from ~6.6K to ~62K across platforms, and organic traffic from 22K to just under 800K. Everyone assumes the work was content. It mostly wasn't. The first three weeks were spent on files that crawler…
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- 2026-10-07 05:23 · DEV Community — AI
What AI crawlers actually read before your content (and the 3 files most sites get wrong)