Devtool Founders Should Start GEO Now: Make Your Site Crawlable by LLMs
jia_seed · x · 2026-10-02
The author argues devtool founders shouldn't wait on GEO (generative engine optimization), so visibility compounds instead of losing the millions of users who discover tools via LLMs. Practical steps you can take right now:
- Explicitly Allow: AI engine crawlers in robots.txt (e.g., GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot);
- Serve primary content server-side — AI crawlers don't execute JS, so a pure React SPA is invisible to them.
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