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I was digging into why some sites are getting slammed with traffic from chatbots while others get nothing. It’s a game-changer. While Google is flat, the top chatbots are up 81% year-over-year. That’s a firehose of new visitors you’re probably missing out on.

It turns out, a few simple tweaks can open the floodgates. I was making some of these mistakes myself, and fixing them made a huge difference.

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These are the technical changes that moved the needle almost instantly. Don’t skip these!

🚫 Stop blocking AI bots. Go into your Cloudflare settings and turn “Block AI” OFF.

📜 Update your robots.txt. You need to explicitly allow bots like gptbot and perplexitybot.

🚀 Ping Bing’s IndexNow after every single post. Seriously, you’ll get crawled in minutes.

💡 Create a simple /ai.txt file on your site with your 50 most important links and a one-line description for each.

⚖️ Always show a fresh “Updated” date on every article. Bing and Gemini absolutely love fresh content.

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✍️ How to Write for Bots

Your content structure matters more than ever. Bots scan for specific patterns to find answers.

📌 Put a 40-70 word, direct answer right under your main title. Think of it as a built-in answer box.

✅ Sprinkle in one expert quote and one new statistic in every section. This builds credibility and boosts citation chances.

🧱 Keep paragraphs short and break up your content with an H2 heading every 250 words or so.

🔬 Use the “Reddit echo.” Perplexity cites Reddit in nearly half its answers, so referencing discussions there can actually help.

This isn’t just theory: companies are using these exact tactics to get 6x traffic and a 156% jump in demo signups. It’s wild.

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