About Abd
Abd Shanti is co-founder and strategy lead at Outline Technologies, the agency behind FreeGPTSEO and AI Citation Monitor. He works on positioning and search strategy for client brands, which in practice means translating business goals into what search engines and AI assistants need to see before they recommend a brand.
Together with his twin brother Ahmed, Abd runs Outline Technologies and a group of free web tools. FreeGPTSEO grew out of that work: the same checks the team runs on client sites, made free for everyone.
What Abd writes about
- How ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot choose the sources they cite
- AI crawlers, robots.txt and the difference between training, search and user-triggered agents
- Structured data, llms.txt and content formats that answer engines can quote
- Measuring AI visibility honestly, without invented metrics
Editorial standards
Every FreeGPTSEO page follows the same rules. Crawler facts are checked against the operator's own documentation. Statistics are only used with a named source. Dates are updated only when the content itself changes. When something turns out to be wrong, the page is corrected and the update date changes with it.
Crawler and platform references
The AI crawler directory covers 20 agents, and the platform audit guides cover Shopify, WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace and Ghost.
Guides by Abd
- 12 ChatGPT SEO Tips That Actually Work in 2026
- AI Citation Monitoring: Why It Matters and How to Do It
- AI Is Lying About Your Brand. Here Is How to Stop It.
- AI SEO vs Traditional SEO: What Changed and What Didn't
- Bing Copilot SEO: The Fastest Path to AI Citations in 2026
- ChatGPT vs Perplexity vs Gemini: How Each AI Picks Sources
- E-E-A-T for AI: How to Build Trust With AI Models in 2026
- GEO: The Complete Guide to Generative Engine Optimization
- Google AI Mode SEO: How to Appear in AI Mode Answers
- Google AI Overviews: How to Get Featured in 2026
- How to Create an llms.txt File (With Real Examples)
- How to Get Cited by Perplexity AI: A Practical Guide
- How to Rank in ChatGPT: The 2026 Playbook
- How to Track AI Traffic in Google Analytics and Search Console
- How to Write Content That AI Will Actually Quote
- Robots.txt for AI: How to Let AI Crawlers In (Without Wrecking Your SEO)
- Schema Markup for AI: Which Types Actually Matter in 2026
- Share of Model: The New KPI That Replaced Share of Voice
- Topical Authority for AI: How to Become the Source AI Trusts
- What is AEO? Answer Engine Optimization Explained
- What is AI SEO? The Complete 2026 Guide
- Why Isn't My Website Showing Up in ChatGPT? Fix It