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Traditional SEO
Posts on traditional SEO cover the Google work that AI search builds on: backlinks, competitor analysis, rank tracking, featured snippets, knowledge panels, website copy and the common mistakes a site scan finds. Posts rewritten since October 2026 separate what Google documents from folklore, and link the source.
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Where should I start on traditional SEO?
The posts to read first, then the Attensira page that does this work for you.
- Common SEO mistakes: what we found scanning our own 632 pages What a scan of every URL on our own site found, ranked by how often, with the fix for each. updated 4 Oct 2026
- How to do SEO competitor analysis for Google and AI answers A competitor sheet you can fill by hand, and what ours showed about who we are named beside. updated 4 Oct 2026
- Off-site work How the crew earns the placements and links on the pages that decide your answers. Attensira · product
What does ChatGPT say about blocking AI crawlers in robots.txt?
Add Disallow rules per user agent, and remember robots.txt is a request, not access control. It is classic technical SEO advice, cited to OpenAI's and Google's documentation, which is why the posts here start from what Google and the engines document rather than folklore.
Answer · ChatGPTasked
Question: how to block AI crawlers in robots.txt
ChatGPT answered: Add Disallow rules for the AI crawler user agents you want to block in your site’s robots.txt. … robots.txt is a request to compliant crawlers; it is not an access-control mechanism. Use server-side blocking (WAF/firewall/authentication) if you need enforcement. Blocking GPTBot affects OpenAI’s training crawler; OAI-SearchBot is a separate crawler used for ChatGPT search discovery, so block it only if you also want to opt out of that.
Sources cited
- 1developers.openai.com
- 2developers.google.com
- 3help.openai.com
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Analyst · reads this workspace's answersStored answer, read over the Attensira MCP · · n=1 answer, excerptedWhat have we written about traditional SEO?
Newest first, with the date each post was last updated.
- What belongs on a local SEO checklist? Relevance, distance, prominence, and the AI answers that now recommend local businesses too. Twelve checks, in the order that pays back first. updated 4 Oct 2026
- Which search engine ranking factors actually matter? Google publishes its ranking systems. What each one rewards, the factors people still chase that it does not use, and how AI answers pick sources differently. updated 4 Oct 2026
- How do you run an SEO content gap analysis? Keyword gaps, answer gaps and passage gaps, in one method. With the gaps our own product found on attensira.com, and what it wrote to close them. updated 4 Oct 2026
- How do you improve organic click-through rate in SEO? Find the pages with impressions and no clicks, fix what the result says before what the page says, and read CTR beside AI Overviews instead of alone. updated 4 Oct 2026
- How does SEO work for b2b companies? Few searches, many people, long cycles, and a shortlist increasingly written by an assistant. The B2B SEO plan, with the 61 questions we track for our own B2B product. updated 4 Oct 2026
- What is keyword difficulty in SEO, and how should you use it? KD scores count links, not your chances. How to read them, how to judge personal difficulty, and what difficulty looks like in AI answers, from our own data. updated 4 Oct 2026
- How should you structure a website for SEO and AI search? One owner page per question, shallow hubs, descriptive URLs and links that explain themselves. And the numbers behind how we cut our own site down. updated 4 Oct 2026
- What should a site audit checklist cover in 2026? Twelve checks in the order that saves time, the AI-search layer most audits skip, and the findings from auditing attensira.com with our own product. updated 4 Oct 2026
- How do you identify and match search intent? The four intents Google's own raters use, a method for reading intent from the results, and what our tracked questions show about which pages win each intent in AI answers. updated 4 Oct 2026
- How do you do video SEO in 2026? Google's own video requirements, the YouTube side, and why YouTube has become the most cited domain in AI Overviews. With what our own tracked questions show. updated 4 Oct 2026
- How to write website content that ranks, gets quoted and sells Good website content answers one question per page, answers it first, and says something specific nobody else can. The page brief, the structure, the voice rules we wrote for our own rebuild, and before and afters. updated 4 Oct 2026
- Common SEO mistakes: what we found scanning our own 632 pages The SEO mistakes that cost the most, ranked by how often we found them on our own site. Our full scan of attensira.com covered 632 URLs. Here is what it found, and how each fix works. updated 4 Oct 2026
- How to check your backlinks with Google, for free Google gives you two free ways to see who links to you, the Search Console Links report and search itself. What each shows, what the Links report leaves out, and a third check most people skip, which pages AI answers cite about you. updated 4 Oct 2026
- How to build backlinks: start from the pages that already decide The backlinks worth building are on the pages that already decide your market, in Google results and in AI answers. How to find those pages, what to offer them, what Google calls link spam, and a real decision from our own workspace. updated 4 Oct 2026
- How to do SEO competitor analysis for Google and AI answers An SEO competitor analysis should tell you who wins your buyers' questions, why, and what to do next, on Google and in AI answers. The method, the sheet, and our own head-to-head numbers against the brands that win our category. updated 4 Oct 2026
- How to track SEO rankings without fooling yourself Rank tracking has two sources that disagree, Search Console's average position and a rank tracker's daily check. How to use both, read them correctly, account for AI Overviews, and report rankings without fooling yourself. updated 4 Oct 2026
- How to optimize for featured snippets (and what Google decides) Google decides featured snippets itself; you cannot mark a page for one. You can write the passage it is most likely to choose. The formats, the method, how to opt out, and how the same passage serves AI Overviews. updated 4 Oct 2026
- Google knowledge panel: how to get one, claim it and fix it A Google knowledge panel is generated automatically from sources across the web. You cannot create one, but you can make it more likely, claim it, and correct it. How, and why the same work helps AI answers describe you. updated 4 Oct 2026
Which other topics might help?
- AI Search Visibility Posts on AI search visibility explain how answer engines such as ChatGPT and Perplexity decide which brands to name and which pages to cite, and how to change it: answer blocks, entity naming, fresh facts, comparison pages and audits.
- Content Strategy Posts on content strategy cover writing pages that rank, get quoted by AI answers and sell: answer blocks, sections that survive chunking, comparison pages, passage rewrites and featured snippets.
- Analytics & Measurement Posts on analytics and measurement explain how to count search and AI visibility honestly: share of voice as a rate, sentiment that leaves out answers with no opinion, crawler logs, rank tracking and audits.
- AI Commerce Posts on AI commerce explain how shopping answers in ChatGPT and other assistants choose products, and what stores can do: crawler access, consistent product data, reviews, product copy written for shoppers' needs, and how ads fit in.
What else do people ask?
Does traditional SEO still matter with AI search?
Yes. Google's AI features need a page that is indexed and eligible for a snippet, and AI engines often cite pages that rank. Classic SEO is the base the AI work builds on.
What should a small team do first?
Make sure crawlers can reach the important pages, fix broken internal links, and put a direct answer at the top of each important page. The common mistakes post ranks these by how often we found them.
Do these posts recommend paid tools?
They start with free sources such as Google Search Console and Google search itself, and say where a paid tool adds something.
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