Guides for store owners
How AI engines find, read and recommend stores, and what to change on yours. Each guide lists the sources behind it.
Which brands do AI answers name in each category? See the counts in the AI Shelf Index.
The best AI visibility tools for ecommerce brands
Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Semrush, Ahrefs Brand Radar, Scrunch, AthenaHQ and EcomIndex compared for online stores: engines, shopping features and starting prices, plus the free reports you already have.
GEO vs SEO for online stores
What generative engine optimization changes for an online store, what stays the same as SEO, and a checklist for product pages, crawlers, product data and the sites AI answers cite.
How to get your products recommended by ChatGPT
How ChatGPT picks the products it shows, in OpenAI's words, and five steps for a store: crawler access, your catalog, product pages, reviews, and price and availability.
Which AI crawlers to allow in your store's robots.txt
The AI crawlers from Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Apple, Amazon, Meta and Common Crawl, sorted by what they do, which ones a store should let in, the costliest mistakes, and where to edit robots.txt.
Agentic commerce for Shopify, WooCommerce and BigCommerce stores
What agentic commerce means for an online store: which AI channels list and sell your products today, where checkout happens, what Shopify, WooCommerce and BigCommerce turn on for you, and what to check.