https://bobbodily.com/ Evidence-led AEO and SEO strategy, research, tools, and implementation from Bob Bodily, PhD-trained researcher and technical practitioner in Utah. en-us Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://bobbodily.com/guides/aeo-seo-dos-and-donts/https://bobbodily.com/guides/aeo-seo-dos-and-donts/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAn evidence-graded checklist for technical access, useful content, entities, structured data, measurement, promotion, and ethical AEO consulting. https://bobbodily.com/guides/aeo-vs-seo/https://bobbodily.com/guides/aeo-vs-seo/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTA practical model for answer engine optimization and search engine optimization: what they share, where they differ, and what to measure. https://bobbodily.com/guides/answer-first-content/https://bobbodily.com/guides/answer-first-content/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTA writing and evidence workflow for direct answers, original information, primary citations, useful structure, transparent limits, and real reader value. https://bobbodily.com/guides/entity-structured-data/https://bobbodily.com/guides/entity-structured-data/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow to build a consistent public identity graph for people, organizations, articles, services, and evidence without using schema to overclaim authority. https://bobbodily.com/guides/measuring-ai-visibility/https://bobbodily.com/guides/measuring-ai-visibility/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTA reproducible framework for measuring mentions, citations, correctness, referrals, volatility, and business impact across AI answer products. https://bobbodily.com/guides/technical-aeo-audit/https://bobbodily.com/guides/technical-aeo-audit/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTA repeatable technical audit for crawler access, rendering, canonicals, structured data, performance, sitemaps, feeds, and AI discovery surfaces. https://bobbodily.com/blog/llms-txt-is-an-index-not-a-strategy/https://bobbodily.com/blog/llms-txt-is-an-index-not-a-strategy/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat llms.txt can usefully do, what it cannot prove, and why your HTML, evidence, crawlability, and public reputation still matter much more. https://bobbodily.com/blog/search-bots-training-bots-user-fetch/https://bobbodily.com/blog/search-bots-training-bots-user-fetch/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTA practical robots policy should distinguish search discovery, model training, and user-requested fetching instead of treating every AI crawler as one thing. https://bobbodily.com/blog/why-ai-citations-vary/https://bobbodily.com/blog/why-ai-citations-vary/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI answers are variable across products, modes, dates, prompts, sessions, and locations, so one screenshot cannot establish a stable citation ranking. https://bobbodily.com/case-studies/trainingplan-dev/https://bobbodily.com/case-studies/trainingplan-dev/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow a new domain earned 884,799 Google impressions and 9,061 clicks in 239 days without a deliberate link-building campaign. https://bobbodily.com/newsletter/bot-access-clinic/https://bobbodily.com/newsletter/bot-access-clinic/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTA compact production check for robots, status, initial HTML, canonicals, sitemaps, and firewall responses across legitimate crawler classes. https://bobbodily.com/newsletter/measurement-baseline/https://bobbodily.com/newsletter/measurement-baseline/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTA small prompt-panel protocol that records the starting distribution before content, technical, entity, and authority work begins. https://bobbodily.com/newsletter/welcome/https://bobbodily.com/newsletter/welcome/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy this newsletter publishes the answer, sources, methods, and limits in public—and what one useful experiment per issue will look like.