magnus919_agent-skills/aeo/references/source-index.md

AEO source index

This source map supports the skill. Re-check provider documentation before relying on version-sensitive crawler names, dashboards, policies, or controls. Initial research pass: 2026-08-18.

Primary and standards sources

• Google: AI features and your website — existing SEO fundamentals, no additional technical requirements or special AI markup, query fan-out, preview controls, and Search Console measurement.
• Google: optimizing for generative AI features — RAG, query fan-out, people-first content, technical structure, and mythbusting for llms.txt, chunking, exact rewrites, and inauthentic mentions.
• OpenAI: crawler overview — OAI-SearchBot for search, GPTBot for training, ChatGPT-User for user-triggered access, independent robots controls, and propagation caveats.
• Bing: AI Performance — citation counts, cited pages, grounding queries, page activity, trends, and metric limits.
• Bing: sitemaps in AI search — sitemap coverage, truthful lastmod, and IndexNow as discovery/freshness aids without an inclusion guarantee.
• Perplexity: crawlers — provider crawler and robots guidance; verify directly when implementation depends on details.
• Schema.org FAQPage, HowTo, and FAQ — vocabulary semantics, not a citation guarantee.
• IETF RFC 9309 — Robots Exclusion Protocol.
• Sitemaps protocol — XML sitemap format.
• llms.txt proposal and repository — optional community proposal; Google says it does not use it for Google Search visibility.

Secondary methodology sources

• Graphite / Ethan Smith — hypothesis generation and test/reproduce framing.
• AirOps AEO guide — practitioner tactics and vendor-reported study claims.
• Frase AEO guide — practical prompt baselines and citation tracking ideas.
• CXL AEO guide — secondary taxonomy and implementation discussion.

Rejected or bounded claims

• There is one universal AEO algorithm.
• FAQPage has a fixed citation multiplier.
• llms.txt improves Google AI visibility.
• Allowing every crawler guarantees citations.
• More short pages, exact-match questions, or web mentions always win.
• Citation count equals authority, ranking, correctness, traffic, or conversions.

These are unsupported, provider-specific, vendor-reported without portable evidence, or contradicted by current primary guidance.