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  <subtitle>Practical technical SEO and GEO: catching the configuration mistakes that quietly cost traffic.</subtitle>
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    <title>Is Cloudflare blocking ChatGPT and other AI crawlers on your site? How to check and fix it</title>
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    <published>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</published>
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    <summary>AI bot settings, managed robots.txt and WAF rules, and how to keep AI search while blocking training.</summary>
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    <title>hreflang mistakes that send users to the wrong country (and how to catch them)</title>
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    <published>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Dropped tags, missing return links, wrong hosts, invalid codes and canonical conflicts.</summary>
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    <title>XML sitemap broken after a deploy? The 7 usual causes and how to check</title>
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    <published>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>404s, HTML instead of XML, half the URLs gone, staging hosts, and what it means in Google.</summary>
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    <title>How to monitor SEO changes on your site: 5 approaches compared</title>
    <link href="https://crawlsentry.com/blog/seo-change-monitoring-options"/>
    <id>https://crawlsentry.com/blog/seo-change-monitoring-options</id>
    <published>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Search Console, scheduled crawls, enterprise platforms, lightweight monitors and deploy checks.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>How to check if ChatGPT can see your website (5 tests, 10 minutes)</title>
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    <published>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>robots.txt, CDN blocks, JavaScript rendering, indexing and a real prompt check.</summary>
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    <title>Does llms.txt matter? An honest look for SEOs and site owners</title>
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    <published>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>What llms.txt is, whether AI search engines use it, and whether it's worth adding.</summary>
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    <title>AI crawler user agents &amp; robots.txt templates</title>
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    <published>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Which AI bots do search vs training, and robots.txt templates to allow citations while blocking training.</summary>
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    <title>Is your site invisible to ChatGPT? A technical GEO checklist</title>
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    <published>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>AI crawler access, CDN bot blocking, JavaScript-only content and structured data: the technical side of GEO.</summary>
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    <title>Site migration SEO checklist: the config checks that decide whether traffic survives</title>
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    <id>https://crawlsentry.com/blog/site-migration-seo-checklist</id>
    <published>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>What to check before, at and after launch: noindex, robots.txt, canonicals, redirects and sitemaps.</summary>
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    <title>Canonical tags pointing to staging: how it happens and how to fix it</title>
    <link href="https://crawlsentry.com/blog/canonical-points-to-staging"/>
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    <published>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>How canonical mistakes happen after migrations and deploys, how to audit them, and how to recover.</summary>
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    <title>X-Robots-Tag: the noindex you can't see in view-source</title>
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    <id>https://crawlsentry.com/blog/x-robots-tag-noindex</id>
    <published>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>How the header works, where it sneaks in (CDNs, servers, previews, PDFs), and how to check for it.</summary>
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    <title>Accidental noindex: how one deploy wipes your traffic (and how to catch it)</title>
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    <published>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-11-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>How staging settings leak into production, how to spot them, and how to recover.</summary>
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