Do LLM Bots Actually Use Cloudflare's Markdown for Agents?
We crunched logs for 25 days on several high traffic websites to test which bots are actually "asking for" / using Cloudflare's Markdown for Agents feature.
Research
Field reports from a working GEO agency. Live case studies, methodology, and what we learn measuring ourselves first.
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How Much of Your AI Crawler Traffic Is Fake?
We checked every request claiming to be an AI crawler on three sites against the operators' own published IP ranges. On a logistics company's site 28% was counterfeit, and 104 Google Cloud addresses were cycling up to sixteen crawler identities each.
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Do LLM Bots Actually Read JSON-LD, and Will They Cite It?
Result: yes, but only when they fetch the page. We planted a coined term where no human can see it, and Grok read all five planted terms straight out of our structured data - then showed us the curl command it used. The engines that answered from memory cited our competitors instead.
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Does noindex Keep You Out of AI Answers?
A live experiment: a noindexed page, never linked or listed, pushed out only by hand off-web - to test whether the AI engines ingest it anyway, and whether sharing alone is a route into AI answers.
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GEO Case Study: AI Chatbots Are Really Bad at Reading JavaScript
We logged what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity actually fetch when you paste them a URL. Every one is JavaScript-blind - server-side proof for GEO and AEO.
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How Long Does It Take an LLM Bot to Discover a New Business Entity?
We just turned llmcartel.com into a clean-slate experiment. The site is brand new. No external citations. No press. We started a clock to answer a question every founder asks: how long does it take an LLM bot to discover a new business entity?
