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@landwehr.bsky.social has tested most of the AI search checklist people are selling right now. Three of the most popular items have never produced a measurable visibility lift for him. The thing that does work is boring enough that nobody builds a product around it.

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1. Markdown copies of your pages. He ran it across hundreds of thousands of chats. In 0% of them did an LLM cite the .md version over the HTML page. What you get instead: duplicate content, double the crawl, a diluted internal link graph.

2. Schema as a delivery mechanism for facts. Published test: when the page text and the schema disagree, the text wins. When the fact lives ONLY in schema, ChatGPT answered ~20% of the time and Claude 0%. Schema is a forcing function for data hygiene. Not a pipeline.

3. llms.txt as a visibility play. He's never seen one lift visibility in an answer. Its real job is telling actual agents where your API, MCP and docs live. His line: he doesn't know anyone strict about measurement who thinks llms.txt is a lever.

The boring thing that works: describe yourself identically everywhere. Not this .. Website: "SEO agency for lawyers." Founder's LinkedIn: "digital visibility in the jurisdictional industry." Press release: "search visibility for law offices." To an LLM, that's three companies.