Was wondering too if astra/genesis or some other good theme (if those are good) are included with springboard (maybe not right place to ask?)

I'm wondering if more hugo/static site is the answer instead of bloat from wordpress (I only asked because you recommended wordpress) as many hugo/ss are lightweight and cleaner and easy to implement schema natively.

I did nothing though, just was lazy and happened to look for link to one of my tools lol there is no schema. Site is done in hugo with a theme I can modify for schema easily though. (and site is ugly, but it's really an online notebook for me personally)

Very cool. I just saw this too, similar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuTcle5edjk

Trying to figure that out. Wrote this to help with SEO maps, and it hints at what I think is also good for AEO, but I need to modify it and verify I'm on the right track: https://chatgpt.com/share/69167a5c-bae0-8001-adb6-4e0efb71206c

I use a separate GPT for picking the right schema and structure at the article/content level, my question was related to the overall big picture sitemap. I like all of your other list, that's comprehensive. Happy to collaborate and make custom GPT for each stage of writing. I think they (AEO) is working on some stuff like this, I'm just not aware of what or where it is yet so started making my own GPTs to automate the work partiallly. I can see a GPT that asks all of the questions you and guides for another prompt (or even skills that guide towards the next skill usage in claude). I do want to work together.

The web server can identify. On windows that server is likely IIS. When you say "windows log" that typically refers to the event logs, which are not related to IIS. IIS is an application running on windows to serve web pages. Most servers run linux and apache or nginx and both of these applications serve web pages and have specific logs. I use cloudflare for DNS, and it also identifies bots of various types. Bots can be identified by the User Agent (which can be faked) and it's IP ( which is likely from a cloud and rotating ip so will forever be various ips). Any bot that's reading data won't spoof it's IP, but that can be spoofed too in the case of attack bots. Cloudflare does a pretty good job of identifying bots though. Another way to identify bots is through usage. Humans might stay on a page for 22 seconds, whereas a bot goes to the next page every few seconds and reads many pages at once, possibly even ignoring images and focusing on just schema or just data/text. Some bots read multiple pages at once, even up to hundreds of requests at once. A SIEM like wazuh or splunk could help identify patterns that don't look like a human. You can forward server logs from apache, nginx, or IIS to the SIEM (and learning SIEM is not done in an afternoon typically). Cloudflare is simplest method, or trusting User-Agent, which - like I said, can easily be spoofed. For example, i might write a script in python that looks like firefox, and behaves like firefox. Maybe my script even behaves like a human with random activity, random pauses. There are web browser drivers that are literally python controlling a real browser instead being a script with fake UA. So the question is... what is considered a bot you want to detect, and why? Perplexity's answer is right, but not sure the question was the right question to ask it.

@Julian Lopez Depends on the scraper sophistication. Anyone can make a scraper, but without using evasion techniques in it, you often get blocked. I work in cyber security so I know the common defenses from a "don't abuse our system" view. I do not know it from a "don't look at our content if you're a bot view, ever". I know creators dont' want bots to steal their clicks, but in blocking them, they are also killing all future traffic. I also leech things a lot because I have a habit of wanting ALL Of the information before it goes away so I can "archive" it. It's a bad psychology thing on my part lol. But because of that, I am also often the "attacker". Knowing the defenses (from cyber background) makes it easier to scrape. At scale, I can image AI scrapers definitely use many of the evasion techniques. And robots.txt is a "polite request to obey", not a "rule". The main thing about bots is - you don't know for sure what is a bot, but can make good guesses. Base info off of the good guesses would be my suggestion. Most people will not run sophisticated SIEM tools. I think maybe GA4 would be easiest for most people, but it's still a guess. https://analyticsdetectives.com/blog/bot-traffic-and-filtering-in-ga4