Documentation
Keep your website findable
Learn how geodeck keeps sitemaps, feeds, llms.txt, clean page copies, and visibility checks up to date. Start with verifying your domain, then hook up instant CMS updates if you want things to move even faster.
These docs cover everything geodeck automates: sitemap generation, IndexNow and Google pings, llms.txt, Markdown page mirrors, schema checks, and the visibility score. Most sites finish setup in three steps and are verified within the hour. As of 2026 every check reruns automatically, so the guides below focus on one-time setup and on reading the results, not on maintenance.
Quick start: 3 steps
How do I verify my domain? →
One DNS TXT record proves the website is yours.
What does geodeck publish for AI search? →
How llms.txt and llms-full.txt work, where they live, and how geodeck refreshes them.
How does geodeck handle discovery and indexing? →
How sitemap sync, Search Console, IndexNow, and optional Google Indexing work together.
How does the visibility score work? →
How geodeck grades bot access, schema, answer clarity, freshness, and technical SEO.
How do instant CMS updates work? →
Optional signed update notifications for WordPress, Ghost, Webflow, Sanity, Strapi, and custom stacks.
What do Google, IndexNow, and AI-visibility researchers actually say?
Google's own AI features documentation confirms that ordinary SEO fundamentals still drive inclusion in AI Overviews, and the schema.org getting-started guide explains why marking up pages with a shared vocabulary helps search engines parse them correctly. geodeck checks both automatically, so you don't have to read the specs yourself.
The best practices for SEO remain relevant for AI features in Google Search (such as AI Overviews and AI Mode).
— Google Search Central documentation, “AI features and your website”
The HTTP 200 response code only indicates that the search engine has received your URL.
— IndexNow documentation
This emerging technology, which we formalize under the unified framework of generative engines (GEs), can generate accurate and personalized responses, rapidly replacing traditional search engines like Google and Bing.
— Aggarwal et al., “GEO: Generative Engine Optimization” (arXiv:2311.09735)
For the full protocol details, read the IndexNow documentation geodeck uses to ping search engines, or the GEO paper on arXiv that introduced generative engine optimization in 2023.
What else can I read?
Keep reading the rest of the geodeck documentation, or jump to the platform pages.
- Domain verification →Add a single DNS TXT record so geodeck can manage your site.
- Publish webhook →POST publish, update, and unpublish events with HMAC-SHA256.
- llms.txt generator →How geodeck builds optional AI-readable page maps.
- Indexing & ping providers →IndexNow, Google Search Console, Google Indexing API, and XML-RPC pings.
- Visibility score →How the 0-100 score breaks down across crawler access, page details, answer clarity, freshness, and site basics.
- Blog →Guides on Google visibility, AI answers, indexing, and getting found by more customers.
- Scan for free →Get your website found. On Google and AI answers.
- llms.txt Generator →Generate, host, and auto-update your llms.txt file. Give supported AI tools a clean map of your most important pages. Works with any CMS and is included on every geodeck plan.
- AI Visibility →See how ready your site is for AI answers. geodeck checks crawl access, llms.txt, schema, answer clarity, Perplexity citations, Bing AI visibility signals, and Search Console coverage.
- Answer Engine Optimization →Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring content so AI systems like ChatGPT and Perplexity choose your pages as the definitive answer. Learn the tactics that work.
- GEO Tools →The best generative engine optimization (GEO) tools for AI visibility readiness, llms.txt, schema, sitemap automation, Perplexity citation tracking, Bing AI visibility signals, and Google Search Console coverage.
- AEO vs GEO vs SEO →AEO, GEO, and SEO all aim to drive traffic - but they optimize for completely different signals. Here's the definitive comparison of Answer Engine Optimization, Generative Engine Optimization, and traditional SEO.