Category
AI Discovery
Updates and learnings on how to make your content discoverable by AI - and how Stacklist helps you do that easier and faster.
When should a startup start caring about AI search? Before the website
A new company starts with zero online presence. Here's why publishing a Day-One Library: tools, partners, and honest comparisons; beats building a website first.
Is AI-search optimization just new SEO? What carries over, what breaks
AI search didn't replace SEO, it changed the scoring unit. Here's exactly which SEO practices still matter, which break, and which just change shape.
Find the questions AI can't answer yet (and own them first)
Every obvious topic in your niche is already covered. Here's how to find the specific questions AI still answers badly in your market and own them first.
The relevancy window: why your best clients forget you
Past clients loved working with you, then went quiet. The relevancy window explains why, and how publishing local knowledge keeps you visible in between.
Content that compounds vs content that decays
Social posts decay in days; resources compound for years. Here's how to tell which of your content is disposable and which builds lasting AI visibility.
Why a human-picked list beats another AI listicle
Generic AI listicles are everywhere and say nothing. Learn the Detail Test that makes a human-curated recommendation list trustworthy and citable.
MCP tools for content creators: what's actually worth it
A working taxonomy of MCP-integrated tools for content creators, how to evaluate one before connecting it, and what the protocol won't fix for you.
Measuring AI visibility: crawls, serves, and citations
You can't see who AI recommends instead of you, until you read your own server logs. Here's the crawl-serve-cite framework for measuring AI visibility.
Atomic content: why AI cites collections, not pages
AI engines don't cite whole pages, they cite passages. Here's how to restructure your best content into self-contained atomic units that get quoted.
Run your own AI visibility audit in an afternoon
There's no Search Console for ChatGPT. Here's how to run your own AI visibility audit in an afternoon, using nothing but a spreadsheet and a browser.
Who owns your AI visibility? The rented-space question, answered honestly
Building your expertise on someone else's platform feels risky. Here's an honest Portability Checklist for evaluating any platform before you build there.
How AI actually answers "best X in [town]": fan-out queries, explained
One question to an AI assistant becomes dozens of hidden searches. Here's how query fan-out works, and how hyper-specific content wins those queries.
llms.txt: what the logs actually show
Everyone's adding an llms.txt file to their site. Ahrefs checked the server logs: 97% get zero requests. Here's who actually reads it, and what to do instead.
Does schema markup help you get cited by AI? What the tests show
Does JSON-LD schema help you get cited by AI? A controlled Ahrefs study and a five-system read test say no. Here's what actually earns citations.