# theagenticseo

> An engineer's SEO, for the age of agents. Two deeply reported pieces a week on how AI
> systems crawl, index, cite, and attribute the web.
> Every post contains original work: a test that was run, a dataset that
> was gathered, or a claim that was checked.

Each brief is available as markdown by appending .md to its URL.

## Articles

- [Most of the AI crawlers hitting this site are not AI crawlers](https://theagenticseo.com/articles/who-is-actually-crawling.md): Five days of verified server logs on a site with no audience. Of fourteen agents that identified themselves as AI crawlers, four survived verification. Three addresses claimed twelve identities each, and all three were port-scanning for exposed .env files.

## About

- [Editorial standards](https://theagenticseo.com/editorial-standards/): sourcing, corrections, and how this site uses AI in its own process.