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Garden spider sitting in the center of its web on a balcony Technical SEO Technical SEO — Robots.txt for AI Crawlers: A Setup Guide for SaaS Sites Search crawlers and training crawlers now use different tokens. Here is how to allow AI search citations without handing over training data you would rather keep. Grant Whitaker 7 min Laptop screen showing a business summary with charts and figures Measurement Measurement — How to Measure AI Search Visibility in Search Console in 2026 Google's Generative AI report now covers every site, but it only counts impressions. Here is a monthly routine that fills in the gaps. Molly Ashcroft 7 min White humanoid robot face shown in profile against a dark background AI Search AI Search — Does Your SaaS Site Need llms.txt? What Google's 2026 AI Guide Says Google now says in writing that its Search ignores llms.txt. Here is where the file still helps a software company, and where the hour is better spent. Owen Mercer 7 min Rows of metal letterpress type blocks in a wooden printer's case Content Strategy Content Strategy — How to Fact-Check AI-Assisted Content Under Google's 2026 Guidance Google now says AI drafts need a human fact-check before publishing, and the review reaches titles, meta descriptions, schema and alt text. Molly Ashcroft 7 min A flat blue road drawn across a frozen river between two small towns The ice road that appears every winter Each January a highway forms on a frozen river. By April it is gone again, and the towns along it plan their whole year around those few months. Leah Spence 12 min Two people sharing a table with a basket of bagels between them The great bagel détente Two bakeries, one street, seventy years of argument over wood-fired dough. A truce, of sorts, has finally been reached. Ravi Chandran 6 min Two figures facing each other, sound waves drawn between them The throat singers taking an old game to new stages It started as a contest between friends to see who would laugh first. Two cousins are now taking it from the community hall to festival stages. Ravi Chandran 9 min A calendar with days crossed off beside a frozen shoreline The long wait for the bears Every autumn a small bay town fills with visitors waiting for the water to freeze and the bears to walk out onto it. Leah Spence 13 min Two linked groups of figures arranged like an organisation chart The quiet return of the co-op Grain elevators, grocery stores, even broadband: in rural towns, owning things together is back. Molly Gallant 11 min A wooden sailing ship at anchor beside a harbour The boatbuilders who refuse to go fibreglass In an old harbour town, a handful of shipwrights keep the wooden schooner alive, one plank at a time. Molly Gallant 8 min A quiet bedroom window at night under a crescent moon Inside a late-night jazz revival Basement clubs, borrowed pianos and a scene that plays until the last bus is long gone. Ravi Chandran 6 min Two people walking together along a snowy path How one city learned to love winter again Skating trails through the forest, saunas by the river and a city that stopped hiding indoors. Here is how to borrow the idea. Leah Spence 9 min