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Suganthan Mohanadasan is the co-founder of Snippet Digital, an AI SEO agency, and Keyword Insights, an AI content intelligence platform. He publishes AI SEO research on how ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode choose their sources at suganthan.com.
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I Made My Website Charge AI Agents A Penny Per Page, Then I Watched Claude Pay It
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Googlebot won’t pay your price yet. Charge now and you lose citations. Here’s what to decide before the dashboard toggle arrives.
ChatGPT Searches Individual Subreddits By Name
Reddit still wins ChatGPT citations where a forum is the best source. Two captures, four days apart, show what actually decides the credit.
ChatGPT Rebuilt Its Search Tool, I Read The New Language It Speaks
84 Reddit threads entered the retrieval pool. Zero got cited. The new tool-call format shows what ChatGPT fetches before it answers.
How To Track Google AI Mode Traffic In Search Console
Search Console hides AI Mode query data by default. This breakdown compares four extraction methods, including a free ML-powered tool.
The AI Conversations Leaking Into Your Search Console
Search Console records what people say to AI Mode. Here’s how to pull those fragments out and sort them into seven buckets.
ChatGPT Already Knows Who’s In The Running Before It Searches
ChatGPT names brands in its own search queries before it fetches anything. Being in that query is worth 33 times more.
Common Crawl Published A Manual For Being Visible To AI, I Automated It
Check captures, robots.txt history, block fingerprints and a live CCBot probe for any domain, free, straight from Common Crawl’s own archives.
How Perplexity Actually Picks Sources (I Read The Stream, Not The Answers)
Perplexity never skips the web, so every query is winnable. Here’s what its live answer stream reveals about citations, video, and local.
How ChatGPT Actually Picks Sources (I Read The Network Traffic, Not The Outputs)
ChatGPT’s source behavior shows why crawlable facts, third-party validation, and query-level search triggers matter more than generic GEO tactics.