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Generative engine optimization, technical SEO, agency delivery workflows and multilingual launches — written by the team that built this very site with PolyDraft. Everything here is research-backed; nothing is padded with invented statistics.
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Generative Engine Optimization / October 8, 2026
robots.txt Examples: Control Search and AI Crawler Access
Adapt these robots.txt examples for search and AI crawlers, understand rule precedence, and test access without confusing crawl rules with indexing or security.
Generative Engine Optimization / October 8, 2026
llms.txt Example: Build and Validate a Useful Website Map
Build a concise llms.txt file with a copyable example, source-selection rules, and validation steps. Understand its limits and how it differs from a sitemap.
AI Website Building / October 8, 2026
Website Cost Breakdown: Build a Budget You Can Check
Create a website budget from explicit assumptions. Compare build, hosting, updates, and handoff costs with a worked example and a reusable cost worksheet.
AI Website Building / October 8, 2026
Hreflang Audit Checklist: Test Every Language Version
Audit hreflang with a three-language example, reciprocal-link checks, canonical tests, and a release checklist for finding errors across localized pages.
AI Website Building / September 5, 2026
Can ChatGPT Build a Website? What It Does and Does Not Do
ChatGPT can write the code and copy for a website. It cannot host it, register a domain, or publish it — here is the honest split and the work that remains.
AI Website Building / September 4, 2026
Lovable vs Base44: A Documentation-Based Comparison
Two AI app builders read against the same brief on August 30, 2026, using only each vendor’s published pricing and documentation — including what neither one states.
Generative Engine Optimization / September 3, 2026
Lovable SEO: An Audit Framework for AI-Generated Sites
A reproducible audit for any AI-generated site, separating what Lovable’s own documentation verifies from what only a test on your own project can answer.
AI Website Building / September 2, 2026
Lovable Pricing Explained: How the Credit Model Works
What actually drives cost in Lovable’s credit model — metering, grants and expiry rules — from its own published documentation, reviewed on August 30, 2026.
AI Website Building / September 1, 2026
Lovable Alternatives: 8 AI Builders Judged on One Brief
Eight AI builders read against the same brief and the same five criteria, using each vendor’s own public pricing and documentation reviewed on August 30, 2026.
AI Website Building / August 28, 2026
Translating a Website Without Breaking Its Search Setup
Adding languages to a site breaks more search setups than it fixes. A sequenced checklist covering URL structure, language annotations, translated metadata and the checks that prove it works.
Generative Engine Optimization / August 28, 2026
Can AI Assistants Actually Read Your Website? How to Check
Check whether crawlers can reach your website, read the served content and identify your business. Separate technical access from observed AI citations.
AI Website Building / August 28, 2026
Post-Launch SEO: The Work That Starts on Launch Day
Launching a site finishes the build, not the search work. Here is the recurring maintenance a live site needs, which parts are safe to automate, and how to verify any of it is landing.
Behind the Build / July 28, 2026
How This Website Was Built with PolyDraft — The Full Log
A transparent walkthrough of how polydraft.ai itself was researched, planned, written and shipped by the same AI agent we sell — including what was decided and why.
Agency Delivery / July 15, 2026
How Agencies Deliver Client Websites with AI — Without Losing the Client
A practical delivery workflow for agencies and freelancers using AI to build client sites: where AI saves real hours, where it does not, and how to hand over cleanly.
Generative Engine Optimization / June 30, 2026
Generative Engine Optimization: A Practical Guide to Evidence
Understand GEO, search crawling and useful content. Learn what to verify, what llms.txt does not do, and how to measure citations without promising results.
AI Website Building / June 18, 2026
How to Evaluate an AI Website Builder: 7 Questions Before You Commit
Most AI website builders demo identically. These seven questions separate the ones that produce a real business asset from the ones that produce a rented demo.
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