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Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by staticshock »

i_love_retros wrote: post #137
cj wrote: post #135

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It's the same as SEO. No one does SEO because they're trying to help Google. You do it because you're trying to help the people using google. (Edit: or trying to make money by driving traffic for ads) Whether or not companies spend time on AEO is directly tied to whether LLM/agents/AI/etc end up becoming a lead channel that buyers use to research products to buy.

>You do it because you're trying to help the people using google. Haha, no, people do it to try and get ranked higher and thus make more money. They're not trying to help anyone.

In a well functioning system, the incentive to make money is somewhat aligned with the incentive to create value for other people.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by ac29 »

Mordisquitos wrote: post #109
burntpineapple wrote: post #95

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gotta be a bit naive to think this way, no? "if x is so smart, why can't it just do y automatically?"

As a user, why would I trust an AI agent that cannot consistently use non-AI-tailored websites? If it cannot even do that, who knows what other failure modes it may hit me with.

I agree, but do the potential customers of my business?

We need to meet the customer where they are and that means making our site more accessible to search engines, mobile devices, LLMs, or whatever comes next.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by hombre_fatal »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #112
hombre_fatal wrote: post #94

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"GEO" (optimizing for agent search) is the legitimate sequel to SEO though. I published a free macOS app three years ago to the app store and abandoned it. Over the last six months I received multiple emails per week from people asking where they can find it since it only shows up on the app store for older macOS. I finally asked people how they found out about my app, and 100% of the time it was because they asked C…

I mean, I can see the bones of the point you're trying to make, but: * You describe your website as "crappy" yet ChatGPT was able to figure it out enough to get you traffic for an app you didn't maintain * ... with the caveat that it thought made up theoretical features were actual features So unless your website was "GEO"d by sheer accident, I really don't think this is a good example to cite as the demonstration of…

I'd liken it to accidentally getting a high ranking website on Google without thinking about it.

It doesn't mean you can't deliberately game the bot. It means you can analyze how and then replicate it (aka SEO).

If I can unintentionally sway the LLM agent, then I can figure out how and do it intentionally (aka GEO).

Either way, if you've used LLMs, then you it's trivially possible to sway them. That's the only proposition you need to accept for GEO to be possible. Though it's far worse than possible: I'm sure it's widespread and ubiquitous.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by solenoid0937 »

Bender wrote: post #146
pickleglitch wrote: post #63

I'd rather have a site showing how well my site is protected from being accessed by AI agents would be preferable, and advises how I can lock it down further. Basically, the exact opposite of this.

ip route add blackhole "${CIDR}" 2>/dev/null Do a for loop reading through files of all the cloud IP CIDR blocks and that will curtail all the AI, search engine bots and more.

Now your revenue goes to zero :(

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by Bender »

solenoid0937 wrote: post #155
Bender wrote: post #146

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ip route add blackhole "${CIDR}" 2>/dev/null Do a for loop reading through files of all the cloud IP CIDR blocks and that will curtail all the AI, search engine bots and more.

Now your revenue goes to zero :(

If you depend entirely on search engines for sure. I do not have a commercial site but if I did I would pay other popular and related sites to link to me in a classy non spammy way. I would also pay influencers to link to me and talk about my site.

I could totally imagine Joe Rogan saying, "Hey Jamie, what was that site? Oh yeah go to ai dash sucks dash bfdd dot newsdump dot org to get your copy of an SSH banner today."

I've had traffic sent to me long ago from paying into Google's program but it was mostly bots. This was in the 2003-2009 time-frame. I imagine by now it's not much better.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by ryandrake »

staticshock wrote: post #151
i_love_retros wrote: post #137

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>You do it because you're trying to help the people using google. Haha, no, people do it to try and get ranked higher and thus make more money. They're not trying to help anyone.

In a well functioning system, the incentive to make money is somewhat aligned with the incentive to create value for other people.

This is probably your point, but we are not in a well functioning system.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

#158

Post by ryandrake »

KetoManx64 wrote: post #150
gosub100 wrote: post #105

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Maybe we can start a new protocol where the html is encrypted, and the viewer must try 2^10 to 2^20 hashes before the decryption key is discovered. Same formula that BTC mining uses. It would be negligible cost for any single user but terribly expensive for crawling en-masse.

Better yet, set up a way for users to just pay $0.01 using lightning or some other token to view your site and scrape it.

This is just introducing a small business cost for AI/scrapers and a reason to bail out of the funnel for real users--so by charging, you'll have an even larger percentage of bots.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by ajesus »

julienreszka wrote: post #97
celso wrote: post #88

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Can you share the website URL?

it's https://reloadium.com tho I was wrong I do registerTool() not provideContext() because the W3C specs shows it's registerTool() webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/

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Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by Bombthecat »

Mordisquitos wrote: post #86

AI industry: "AI agents will soon be able to do any white-collar human job!" Also AI industry: "Please make sure your website is adapted so that AI agents are able to use it."

And users won't need to visit your site.

Thank you

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