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AI Commerce & AEO Notes
How to make a store readable, trustworthy, and shoppable by AI agents — without guesswork.
Interpreting AI Agent Traffic on Your WooCommerce Store
Understand AI agent traffic patterns on your WooCommerce store and what they reveal about your e-commerce strategy.
A Practical Guide to Writing llms.txt for AI Readiness
Learn how to effectively write a llms.txt file to ensure AI agents can accurately interpret your WooCommerce store's data.
AEO vs. SEO: What's Actually Different About Structured Data for AI Agents
If you've already invested in schema.org markup for Google, you might assume you're done. The gap that's left is smaller than starting from scratch — but it's a real gap, and it's usually completeness, not format.
AI Checkout Without Losing Control of Payments
Letting an AI agent complete a purchase sounds risky — until you separate two very different things: an agent preparing an order, and an agent handling money. Only one of those is necessary.
MCP Explained: The Protocol Letting AI Agents Actually Shop From Your Store
Model Context Protocol is the difference between an agent reading a static description of your store and an agent calling live tools against it — checking real stock, real shipping costs, and real prices at the moment a shopper asks.
How to Make Your WooCommerce Store Visible to ChatGPT, Claude, and AI Shopping Agents
AI crawlers and agents don't browse your site the way a person does. Here's what actually makes a WooCommerce store readable to them — and the specific gaps that quietly keep stores invisible.
What Is AEO (Agent Engine Optimization) — and Why It Matters for E-commerce Now
Search Engine Optimization was built for crawlers that render pages for humans to read. Agent Engine Optimization is for a different reader entirely: an AI agent that has to decide, on its own, whether your product is worth recommending.