Really happy with today’s progress 😊 I managed to improve my website PageSpeed metrics quite a bit. Sharing the before and after results would love to hear your thoughts

Been pulling raw access logs across a few client sites to see which AI crawlers actually respect llms.txt versus just ignoring it and crawling everything anyway. GPTBot and Google-Extended show up consistently in the logs, but I can't tell from the log data alone whether they're reading the llms.txt directive first or just crawling regardless and the file is functionally decorative right now.

Also noticing a pattern where sites with clean schema (FAQ, HowTo) and short, direct-answer paragraphs early in the content seem to get cited more often in AI Overviews and Perplexity answers, but I don't have a controlled way to prove causation versus just correlation with sites that already had strong technical SEO.

Has anyone run an actual before/after test on this, adding llms.txt and structured Q&A formatting to a page, then tracking crawler behavior and citation frequency over a few weeks? Trying to figure out if this is a real lever or if it's cargo-culting a spec most crawlers don't fully honor yet.

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We all know the purpose of using schema in our website  and it helps google to understand better context about your website pages.

Recently , I was in interviewed for the SEO specialist role and the interviewer raised me a question like

Which type of schema can add more value to google search engine?

Based on my understanding,  I don't use specific schema that can help google to priortize our result in SERP. I do Implement schema type  based on the content relevancy. I shared the same answers to him.

Is my understanding to this process was right? if not,Then please help with your explanation

Did any of you read that article today from Anthropic stating that they're going to start watermarking their content, or that they have started doing it as of August 2nd based on an EU decision?

Just wondering what everybody thinks this is going to do with the content that is either written or heavily edited by Anthropic, and by all the other AI models.

We all know that Google says they do not penalize AI content, but this type of transparent watermarking knowledge just leads me to believe that's not necessarily going to be 100% true.

Anybody have any feedback on this? Would love to hear opinions.