I Audited AI SEO for Websites. The $0.035 Check Catches What Most Teams Miss. (opens in new tab)

I keep seeing three claims about "AI SEO" for websites: "Just add llms.txt." "Schema is enough." "Google SEO and AI visibility are now separate games." Two of those are wrong. One is still unproven. I spent time looking at the boring structure issues that decide whether a page can be crawled, parsed, summarized, and cited. The punchline is not glamorous: AI website optimization still starts with plain SEO optimization. TL;DR No, AI website optimization is not a prompt trick. It is mostly page...