Todd M. O'Rourke

How to Check If AI Agents Can Actually Find Your Site

Todd O'Rourke — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:14:31 +0000

A free Agentic Resource Discovery checker that validates your ai-catalog.json, the four discovery signals, and crawler reachability. Test your site in seconds.

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JavaScript SEO: How to Diagnose and Fix the Empty Rendered Shell

Todd O'Rourke — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:09:55 +0000

JavaScript SEO done wrong leaves pages as an empty shell to Google and AI bots. A practitioner's guide to diagnosing rendering issues and fixing them.

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An AI Content Strategy That Doesn’t Sound Like AI

Todd O'Rourke — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:14:09 +0000

Most AI content strategy means publishing more, faster. Here is the one I actually run: audience first, research-grounded, and built to be cited by AI.

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Why ChatGPT Won’t Cite Your Site: I Tested It on a Real Agency

Todd O'Rourke — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:52:39 +0000

I tested how to get cited by ChatGPT on a real agency site. It passed every technical check and still got cited zero times. Here is what actually decides it.

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Schema Markup for AI: What It Actually Does (With Real Code)

Todd O'Rourke — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:38:04 +0000

Does schema markup help AI? It does three different jobs, at index, training, and runtime. I prove each one with real JSON-LD pulled from my own site.

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“Not Provided” Keywords in Google Analytics: What a Real GA4 + Search Console Join Actually Recovers

Todd O'Rourke — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:50:23 +0000

I joined a year of Search Console query data to GA4 conversions on a real site. Here's what "not provided" keywords actually hide, and what stays dark.

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How to Add WebMCP to WordPress (With Working Code)

Todd O'Rourke — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:44:06 +0000

How to add WebMCP to WordPress so AI agents can call your site as callable tools. Built to the official W3C spec with a fallback that works in browsers today.

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Does Google Penalize AI Content? What Google’s Own Slop Research Shows

Todd O'Rourke — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:46:57 +0000

Google doesn't penalize AI content, but it does target mass-produced AI slop. Here's what Google's own detection research reveals, and how to stay clear.

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I Implemented Google’s Agentic Resource Discovery Spec on My Site. Here’s What Broke.

Todd O'Rourke — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:00:01 +0000

I implemented Google's Agentic Resource Discovery spec on my own site. See how ai-catalog.json works, what broke on WordPress, and what it means for SEO.

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Open Knowledge Format (OKF): How to Add It to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, and Squarespace

Todd O'Rourke — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:27:54 +0000

Open Knowledge Format (OKF) is Google's vendor-neutral markdown standard for feeding AI agents your content. Here is what it is and how to add it to your CMS.

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