Cortico Health
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1,000+
day-one traffic lift
The Challenge
What Cortico Health was up against.
Cortico Health had a clean product and good content that no AI engine could read. GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ChatGPT-User and Google-Extended were all being turned away at the robots.txt and CDN level, so the crawlers never got as far as the content.
Nobody knew, and there is no alert for this. The block had been in place for months and only surfaced when an AI visibility audit came back with zero citations across every single tracked prompt. A zero that complete is not a content problem, it is a door problem.
The Approach
How we attacked it.
A tightly scoped sprint. Find the block, remove it, reinforce the entity signals while we were in there, then watch what happened once the engines could finally read the site.
- Crawler audit across ChatGPT-User, GPTBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended
- robots.txt and CDN rule changes to unblock AI engines, still verifiable today at cortico.health/robots.txt
- Schema and entity reinforcement on flagship pages
- Prompt set built around clinical and operational queries
- Day-by-day citation tracking once crawlers regained access
Results
What changed.
1,000+
Day-one traffic lift
Days
Time to result
4 / 4
AI engines unblocked
Live
Citations across LLMs
“We had no idea we were locked out of AI search entirely. AEO Labs caught it in the audit and had us live in days.”
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