Why does Perplexity never cite my blog posts?

Perplexity's synthesis model preferentially extracts structured lists. A 2,000-word essay loses to a 600-word listicle on the same topic. This is the format that wins.

// Playbooks

GEO Playbooks

8 tactical step-by-step guides for earning AI citations. Each ships HowTo JSON-LD so ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews can lift the steps verbatim.

// content

Write for Perplexity (Listicle Format) 20m · intermediate
Perplexity cites listicles 4× more than prose. The exact H2/bullet pattern that earns Perplexity citations on listicle queries.
Answer-First Content for AI Overviews 15m · beginner
Google AI Overviews extract the answer from the first 50-70 words. The exact opening pattern that wins extraction.

// crawlers

Fix Cloudflare Blocking AI Crawlers 15m · intermediate
Cloudflare's default 'Bot Fight Mode' silently blocks OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot. The exact WAF rules to fix it.

// llms-txt

Ship llms.txt in 10 Minutes 10m · beginner
A working llms.txt for any marketing site in under 10 minutes. The spec, the structure, and the exact template AI agents prefer.

// robots

robots.txt for ChatGPT Citations 10m · beginner
The exact robots.txt block to allow ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude citations while still blocking training-only bots. Copy-paste ready.

// schema

// speed

Edge-Cache HTML for AI Crawlers 20m · advanced
AI crawlers timeout at 1-5 seconds. The exact Cache-Control headers and CDN config to serve HTML in under 200ms TTFB.

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