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Why Technical SEO Needs an AI Layer
Beyond Google, a new audience is crawling your site: AI. From GPTBot to Perplexity, AI agents make decisions based on signals traditional SEO tools ignore. I’ve rebuilt the SiteVitals SEO checker to bridge this gap—adding deep schema validation, AI crawler audits, and llms.txt support. Here is a look at the technical hurdles we hit, the three layers of validation we built, and why your site might pass a Google test but fail an AI readiness check.
By Tom