From the questions your customers ask to answers that cite you.
Set up once, measure a baseline, then every Sunday: the answers read, what blocks you fixed, what works accelerated, and every change checked. Each step below plays the way it happens.
Set up, once
A few steps of yours, then a week of measuring before any number is shown.
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Add your site
Enter your address and put a small file at your site's root. noul finds it and knows the site is yours, which is what lets it act on your behalf later.
- ●One file, checked once
- ●Any number of sites per account
Add your site Examplehttps:// your-site.comnoul-verify-7f3a.txtyour-site.com/file in placeChecking your-site.com… ✓ Verified: it's yours - 2
Can assistants reach you?
Every assistant reads the web through its own crawlers. noul checks each one against your robots.txt and your firewall, then checks that a search crawler can find each question page from your home page or your sitemap.
- ●A blocked crawler becomes a fix, with the exact line to change
- ●For each page, only the step still missing
Can assistants reach you? ExampleCrawler robots.txt Firewall OAI-SearchBot ChatGPT search ✕ ✓ ChatGPT-User ChatGPT answers ✓ ✓ Claude-SearchBot Claude search ✓ ✓ PerplexityBot Perplexity ✓ ✓ Googlebot Gemini, AI Mode ✓ ✓ Bingbot Copilot ✓ ✓ Fix Allow OAI-SearchBot in robots.txt You do it/guides/how-to-choose: can a search crawler find it?- ✓Linked from your home page
- ✕In your sitemap
- ✓Sitemap listed in robots.txt
Your action lists only what's missing: add it to your sitemap. - 3
Choose your questions
The questions your pages should win, suggested from three places: your own pages, the searches Copilot ran where it already cites you, and your busiest searches no question asks yet. You edit, add your own, pick 10 to 30, and approve once.
- ●Weekly use quoted in tokens before anything runs
- ●You set a weekly cap
Choose your questions Example- ✓ Which tool should a small agency use to plan client projects?Your pages
- ✓ How do I move my client projects off spreadsheets?Your pages
- ✓ best planner for creative agencies with time trackingCopilot
- ✓ What's a good alternative planner for a small agency doing client work?Google searches
- How much should a five-person agency pay for a planner?Google searches
- … and 8 more picked
12 selected · 10–30 allowed Weekly use quoted in tokens, with your cap, before anything runs. - 4
Your baseline week
Every question goes to every assistant three times. The three rounds give your starting rate and how much it swings on its own: the bar any later change has to clear.
- ●ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Claude
- ●Web search on, as your customers use them
Your baseline week ExampleChatGPTGeminiAI ModePerplexityClaude Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6Cited your site Didn't Round 1 of 3Round 2 of 3Round 3 of 3Your starting rate22%Normal swing, on its own±5
Every Sunday
The same questions, asked again: the answers read, your actions ranked, and an honest headline.
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Every answer, read
Each answer's sources are read one by one. Your page cited, another of your pages cited, your name without a link, or neither: each is its own mark. An answer that fails is a gap, left out, never counted as a zero.
- ●Cited and named are never added together
- ●Copilot and Google's AI features come from Bing's and Search Console's own exports, on their own cards
Every Sunday ExampleChatGPTGeminiAI ModePerplexityClaude Question 1 C–NC– Question 2 –D–CN Question 3 N––D– Question 4 CC?C– Question 5 –N––D Question 6 D–CN?C your pageD another of your pagesN named you, no link– neither? no answerCited you39%11 of 28Named you only18%counted apartGaps2never a zero - 6
Fix first, then accelerate
Anything that stops the assistants reading your pages comes first. What noul can do on your verified site, it does: your sitemaps submitted through your own Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, your question pages pinged through IndexNow. Then the accelerators, highest impact first.
- ●Cover the searches the assistants ran, get onto the pages they cite, reply in the threads they quote, publish a short video
- ●Anything posted, emailed or published waits for your yes
Your actions ExampleFix- Allow OAI-SearchBot in robots.txt You do it
- Submit your sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools We do it ✓ Done by noul
- Ping IndexNow for your 12 question pages We do it ✓ Done by noul
Accelerate · highest impact first- 1 Make /guides/how-to-choose answer the searches the assistants ran Copy fix prompt
- 2 Get listed on a-review-site.com: “Best tools 2026”
- 3 Reply in r/smallbusiness: a draft you post yourself
- 4 Publish a short video: we make it, you publish it
Anything posted, emailed or published waits for your yes. noul never posts to Reddit.
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Checked, not claimed
Marking an action done is a claim. noul checks it on your page, the round-up or the thread, confirms it or says why it couldn't yet, and marks the confirmed day on your charts.
- ●Copy any action as a prompt for your own AI agent
- ●Later weeks show what moved with it, never what it "caused"
An action, start to finish ExampleAccelerate Your website Waiting for you Checking… ✓ ConfirmedMake /guides/how-to-choose answer the searches the assistants ranGemini and Claude don't cite it yet. They searched for “planner for small agencies” and “agency project tool comparison”.I've done it Reading your page for those searches… Your page now covers 5 of the 6 searchesCited rate, week by week Moved with the change, never “caused” - 8
Until every assistant cites you
A question stays in your series once it's cited and keeps being asked, so a citation lost shows up as clearly as one won. The page's work carries on, with the searches of each assistant that doesn't cite it yet.
- ●Pages no assistant cites come first
- ●New questions join with your next series, at most once a week
Until every assistant cites you ExampleWhich tool should a small agency use to plan client projects?- Perplexity Not yet ✓ Cites your page
- ChatGPT Not yet ✓ Cites your page
- Gemini Not yet ✓ Cites your page
- Google AI Mode Not yet
- Claude Not yet
Asked every Sunday, on every assistant. Still asked every Sunday. Page work goes on for ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Claude: their searches, their sources.Still asked every Sunday. Page work goes on for Gemini, Google AI Mode and Claude: their searches, their sources.Still asked every Sunday. Page work goes on for Google AI Mode and Claude: their searches, their sources. - 9
An honest headline
Your cited rate over the last four runs, against your baseline. "Accelerating" only when the change beats your normal swing and rose two runs in a row. Otherwise it says what it is: too early, within normal variation, ahead and holding, or below.
- ●Never compared across series
- ●Every number computed, never guessed by a model
An honest headline ExampleToo early to call · 3 of 4 weekly runsWithin normal variation · +1 point · normal swing ±2Ahead of baseline · +3 points · holdingAccelerating · +5 points · rising 2 weeksAccelerating · +8 points · rising 3 weeksAhead of baseline · +7 points · holding“Accelerating” only when the change beats your normal swing and rose two runs in a row. Otherwise the headline says what it is.
Around the answers
What the assistants' crawlers and your search traffic say, each from its own source.
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AI crawlers, by company
Connect Cloudflare or DataFast, or upload a server log, and noul counts each company's crawler visits a day: fetches for answers, indexing and training, each on its own, with the days noul acted marked on the same chart.
- ●Checked against each crawler's IP ranges where the source allows
- ●A search crawler that never reads your question pages becomes a fix
AI crawler visits a day Example28 days agoTodayLast 7 days, against the days before the ping- OpenAI +165%
- Anthropic +154%
- Google +60%
- Perplexity +183%
From your own Cloudflare, DataFast or server log, checked against each crawler's IP ranges where the source allows. Fetches for answers, indexing and training each counted on their own.
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Your search traffic
Your Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, each on its own tab: clicks, impressions, click rate and Google's position against the period before, top pages and top queries with each query's page. Searches no person typed are set aside with the reason, never deleted.
- ●Your brand and full-sentence searches tagged
- ●Searches that ask one of your questions marked
Your search traffic ExampleGoogle Bing From your Search ConsoleClicks +34%1,564Impressions +24%46,475Top queries 7 Real searches 4 Set aside 3 Ask your questions 1- project planner for agencies 31 820Asks your question “What's the best planner for a small agency?” · matched by noul
- site:a-competitor.com planner 0 212Set aside · Uses a site: operator
- your brand pricing 24 160Your brand
- keyword-ntdqnjox planner 0 141Set aside · Generated test token
- which planner works for a 5-person agency, with client portals 2 96Conversational
- best%20planner%20app 0 74Set aside · URL-encoded text
- planner vs spreadsheet for client work 3 61
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Your next questions
The busiest real searches none of your questions asks, grouped and worded as people ask an AI assistant, each with its own source's numbers. Pick them for your next series; nothing is ticked for you.
- ●Page-one searches first
- ●Each lands on the page that search already reaches
Questions from your searches ExampleGoogle searchesFrom your Search Console“planner alternatives for agencies”and 5 like it · 1,727 impressions in 28 days · position 8None of your questions asks it✓What's a good alternative planner for a small agency doing client work?Worded as people ask an AI assistant · lands on /planner-alternativesAdded to your next series A new series starts at most once a week, with its own baseline.
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Every question, every assistant, three times. Then an honest read every Sunday.
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