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GEO References and Official Documentation

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Official Documentation

TopicSourcesApplication to This Project
OpenAI CrawlersOpenAI crawler documentationDistinguish OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, and ChatGPT-User to manage search visibility, training, and user-triggered access separately.
Structured data from GoogleGoogle Search Central structured dataStructured data helps systems understand pages, but results require page-level before-and-after comparisons and ongoing observation.
Google's structured data guidelinesGeneral structured data guidelinesStructured data must match visible page content, and pages must be crawlable.
Perplexity robotsPerplexity Help CenterPerplexityBot follows robots rules and should be included in AI bot access checks.
Perplexity Bot DocumentationPerplexity CrawlersDefine access and log checks for PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User.
Schema vocabularySchema.orgDefines fields for types including Organization, Service, Article, FAQPage, and BreadcrumbList.
Sitemap ProtocolSitemaps XML protocolSupports discovery of core pages and signals updates.

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Research and Editorial Governance

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