The Writesonic Newsletter Edition 05 · 20 August 2026 New tools, fresh data, and one customer story worth reading twice. |
Hey BTC, I have been spending more time on customer calls lately, and the same thing keeps surfacing. Good content, real authority, years of SEO work. And then they type their own category into ChatGPT or Perplexity and their brand doesn’t show up. Turns out the AI crawlers couldn’t reach the pages. That pattern shaped this entire edition. Two tools to diagnose the problem, new research with numbers I haven’t seen published anywhere else, and a customer story that shows what happens when you actually fix it. |
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Check if AI crawlers can actually read your pages.Blocked by robots.txt. Gated behind JavaScript rendering. Hidden by a WAF that rejects unfamiliar user agents. Any one of these will make your content invisible to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, and none of them show up in Google Search Console. The AI Crawlability Checker runs your page through the same process GPTBot uses when it visits. You’ll see exactly what the AI picked up, what it missed, and what needs fixing.
Also new  Tell AI models what your site is about, in their languagellms.txt is a structured markdown file that sits at your domain root and tells language models which pages matter and what each one covers. Think of it as a table of contents written for machines instead of browsers. Drop in your URL, and get a spec-compliant file you can publish today.
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 A citation on Perplexity earns you nothing on ChatGPT.We ran 161,286 prompts through ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews and measured how much their citation pools actually overlap. The answer: barely. Only 3.8% of cited sources appeared across all four platforms. A brand earning a citation on one engine has not, statistically, earned anything on the others. The content that gets you into one platform’s answers is mostly not the content moving the needle elsewhere. If your GEO work has focused on a single platform, this study will show you the blind spots.
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How BlitzMetrics closed two $100K clients from AI search in 3 months.BlitzMetrics tracked where AI was sending traffic, optimized for the prompts that mattered, and closed two six-figure clients they can trace directly to ChatGPT-sourced leads. Human traffic from AI tripled in the same period. Bot visits went from 3,500 to 5,000 weekly. They’re now expanding to more sites because, as founder Dennis Yu put it: every serious site needs AI visibility tracking.
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Five editions in, and I keep noticing the same gap. The companies that treat AI search as a real channel, one they can instrument and improve, are the ones pulling ahead. The ones still treating it as ambient buzz are watching competitors take their seats. The crawl checker, the research, the BlitzMetrics story: they all point the same direction. Measure it. Act on it. See you in two weeks. Sam PS: The crawl checker takes ten seconds. Send it to someone on your team who owns the site. They can subscribe on our blog. |
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