How to read this directory
Dates below are the source checks recorded in each article, not a claim that every source was checked today. A source may support a definition or provider requirement without validating the guide’s original framework or illustrative example.
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advertising.amazon.com
Amazon Ads: Conversion attribution for DSP ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Why retail-media revenue and settled orders disagree
Documents conversion-date reporting for Amazon DSP, illustrating why the exact report contract matters.
advertising.amazon.com
Amazon Ads: Ad campaign attribution ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Why retail-media revenue and settled orders disagree
Supports sponsored-ad interaction-date reporting, campaign-specific lookback/product scope, and adjustments. Do not apply this date convention to every Amazon reporting product.
blogs.bing.com
Bing: Introducing AI Performance in Webmaster Tools ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Measure AI visibility without confusing it with traffic.
Documents citation-oriented reporting and its supported surfaces. It is distinct from website referral analytics.
developer.chrome.com
Chrome Lighthouse: llms.txt audit ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Make a website easy for agents to find, read, and use.
Documents optional llms.txt audit behavior; does not establish a ranking benefit.
developers.google.com
Google Search Central: Generative AI performance reports ↗
Scope and citations in 4 guides
- Measure AI visibility without confusing it with traffic.
Confirms the August 31 worldwide rollout, available dimensions, and inclusion within overall performance. It does not provide a traffic forecast.
- AI visibility metrics: impressions, citations, referrals, and outcomes
Confirms the August 31 worldwide rollout, available dimensions, and inclusion within overall performance. It does not provide a traffic forecast.
- How to find referral traffic in GA4, including AI
Confirms the August 31 worldwide rollout, available dimensions, and inclusion within overall performance. It does not provide a traffic forecast.
- How to read Search Console’s generative AI report
Confirms the August 31 worldwide rollout, available dimensions, and inclusion within overall performance. It does not provide a traffic forecast.
developers.google.com
Google Search: AI features and your website ↗
Scope and citations in 2 guides
- Measure AI visibility without confusing it with traffic.
Documents inclusion requirements and the scope of Search Console reporting for AI features.
- Make a website easy for agents to find, read, and use.
Supports baseline search requirements and the absence of a special AI file requirement.
developers.google.com
Google Search: Product variant structured data ↗
Scope and citations in 3 guides
- Product data an agent can use without guessing.
Supports explicit ProductGroup and Product relationships. The downloadable internal contract is illustrative, not Google feed syntax.
- Product data ownership: resolve a price conflict
Supports direct variant selection with correct price and availability. The register and conflict are fictional editorial examples.
- Does the product page match the variant you submitted?
Documents ProductGroup and Product relationships. It does not establish installation compatibility.
developers.google.com
Google Search Central: Merchant return policy structured data ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Shipping and return policy data for shopping agents
Documents return policy fields and precedence. The fictional seller comparison is not sourced merchant policy.
developers.google.com
Google Search Central: Shipping policy structured data ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Shipping and return policy data for shopping agents
Documents shipping service representation and precedence. The worksheet is an original internal review format, not Google's schema.
developers.google.com
Google Search: Using generative AI content ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Make a website easy for agents to find, read, and use.
Supports prioritizing added value over mass generation without value.
developers.google.com
Google Search: Compare Search Console and Analytics ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Why Search Console, GA4, and Vercel show different traffic numbers
Supports different click/session definitions and checks for implementation, consent, filters, and reporting timezones. The worked comparison is fictional.
developers.openai.com
OpenAI: Overview of crawlers ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Make a website easy for agents to find, read, and use.
Documents separate search, training, and user-initiated crawler purposes.
developers.openai.com
OpenAI API: Web search ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- How to measure AI citations and visible brand attribution
Distinguishes consulted sources from citation annotations in API output. Does not establish a consumer ChatGPT observation or a site's actual citation volume.
developers.openai.com
OpenAI: Stable product file-upload specification ↗
Scope and citations in 4 guides
- Product feed specification: Shopify, Google, and ChatGPT
Native discovery fields and the distinct Google-compatible path. This edition is a selected comparison, not the complete upload contract.
- ChatGPT product feeds: sale prices, stock changes, and stale-data checks
Stable native fields and date behavior. The comparison format and freshness threshold are editorial choices, not a provider validator or SLA.
- Can you copy a product feed unchanged? A 12-case test
Native discovery fields and the distinct Google-compatible path. This edition is a selected comparison, not the complete upload contract.
- SKU vs GTIN: differences, barcodes, and variant IDs
Native discovery fields and the distinct Google-compatible path. This edition is a selected comparison, not the complete upload contract.
docs.perplexity.ai
Perplexity: Crawlers ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Make a website easy for agents to find, read, and use.
Documents search and user-initiated retrieval agents.
github.com
Shopify: Versioned product taxonomy and mappings ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Product feed specification: Shopify, Google, and ChatGPT
Existing category and attribute mappings. Record a pinned release and examine the actual mapping rather than equating category IDs.
help.shopify.com
Shopify: Best practices for AI-powered tools ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- How do you check AI product copy before publishing?
Supports reviewing AI suggestions before applying changes. The shelf example is fictional and the scorecard is a proposed method.
help.shopify.com
Shopify: Set up the Google & YouTube channel ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Product feed specification: Shopify, Google, and ChatGPT
Documents the connected channel and product synchronization with Merchant Center. It does not establish a universal hosted feed URL for every Shopify store.
help.shopify.com
Shopify: Payments activity report ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Why retail-media revenue and settled orders disagree
Distinguishes payment-balance activity, fees, holds, and payouts from revenue. This is an independent platform example, not an Amazon-to-Shopify integration.
help.shopify.com
Shopify: Automatically generating product descriptions ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- How do you check AI product copy before publishing?
Documents description suggestions generated from supplied product details, not guaranteed factual accuracy.
help.shopify.com
Shopify: Understanding inventory states ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Can your stock support more ad spend?
Defines available, committed, unavailable, on-hand, and incoming stock. Does not prescribe this buffer, demand forecast, or spending rule.
help.shopify.com
Shopify: Sales reports ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Is the campaign still profitable after returns?
Documents sales/reversal timing and the distinction from physical returns. Cohort reconciliation and the USD example are original management-analysis illustrations, not Shopify accounting output.
llmstxt.org
The llms.txt proposal ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Make a website easy for agents to find, read, and use.
An emerging convention for a concise site index and alternate text representations.
metr.org
METR: Early-2025 developer productivity study ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Did AI save time after review and rework?
A bounded randomized study of experienced developers; its results are not generalized to current models or commerce production.
metr.org
METR: February 2026 experiment-design update ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Did AI save time after review and rework?
Documents selection effects and difficulties measuring concurrent AI-assisted work; newer estimates were described as unreliable.
schema.org
Schema.org: isAccessoryOrSparePartFor ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Product compatibility data: prove the exact accessory match
Defines an accessory or spare-part relationship. It does not validate the claim; the ledger and decisions are original editorial examples.
schema.org
Schema.org: isRelatedTo ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Product compatibility data: prove the exact accessory match
Defines broader product relatedness. It is not equivalent to an explicit compatibility relationship.
shopify.dev
Shopify Admin API 2026-07: Product ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Product feed specification: Shopify, Google, and ChatGPT
Source product description, vendor, category, and online-store URL. Suggested transformations remain editorial decisions.
shopify.dev
Shopify Admin API 2026-07: ProductVariant ↗
Scope and citations in 2 guides
- Product feed specification: Shopify, Google, and ChatGPT
Variant identity, SKU, barcode, selected options, media, inventory, and pricing context. A source field does not prove destination eligibility.
- SKU vs GTIN: differences, barcodes, and variant IDs
Variant identity, SKU, barcode, selected options, media, inventory, and pricing context. A source field does not prove destination eligibility.
support.claude.com
Anthropic: Web crawler controls ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Make a website easy for agents to find, read, and use.
Documents Anthropic crawler purposes and site-owner controls.
support.google.com
Google Analytics: Traffic acquisition report ↗
Scope and citations in 2 guides
- How to find referral traffic in GA4, including AI
Documents session-scoped acquisition dimensions, report access, metrics, and secondary dimensions. The reconciliation method and all example counts are editorial illustrations.
- Why Search Console, GA4, and Vercel show different traffic numbers
Documents session-scoped acquisition dimensions and report navigation. A page view and a session are different units.
support.google.com
Google Analytics: AI Assistant channel release ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- How to find referral traffic in GA4, including AI
Documents the May 13, 2026 AI Assistant channel and automatic medium/campaign classification for recognized referrers.
support.google.com
Google Analytics: Default channel group ↗
Scope and citations in 3 guides
- Measure AI visibility without confusing it with traffic.
Defines the AI Assistant channel and excludes Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. Channel membership is not proof of a unique human or citation.
- AI visibility metrics: impressions, citations, referrals, and outcomes
Defines AI Assistant and Organic Search classification. Collection and session scope still matter.
- How to find referral traffic in GA4, including AI
Defines the AI Assistant channel and excludes Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. Channel membership is not proof of a unique human or citation.
support.google.com
Google Ads: About Conversion Lift ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Can your stock support more ad spend?
Explains exposed/control measurement of incremental impact. Does not establish the example’s assumed cost per additional unit or guarantee study access.
support.google.com
Google Ads: About conversion values ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- ROAS calculator: break-even and contribution
Supports the distinction between revenue-based and profit-based conversion values. The calculator definitions and synthetic example are stated explicitly in this guide.
support.google.com
Google Ads: How to adjust your conversions ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Is the campaign still profitable after returns?
Documents conversion adjustments and their prerequisites. No conversion settings or bid changes are implied by this example.
support.google.com
Google Ads: Bidding and budget questions ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Can your stock support more ad spend?
Documents daily spending limits for most campaigns and exceptions. The worksheet’s uniform actual spend is an assumption, not a Google Ads budget control.
support.google.com
Google Merchant Center: Product dimensions and weight ↗
Scope and citations in 3 guides
- Product dimensions vs package dimensions: compare units safely
Product measurements, accepted units, and consistent dimension units. The local checker is a separate editorial tool, not a full destination validator.
- Product feed specification: Shopify, Google, and ChatGPT
Product measures, accepted units, and agreement between repeated measurements. Packaging has a different meaning.
- Can you copy a product feed unchanged? A 12-case test
Product measures, accepted units, and agreement between repeated measurements. Packaging has a different meaning.
support.google.com
Google Merchant Center: Scheduled product data updates ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Product feed specification: Shopify, Google, and ChatGPT
Documents Scheduled updates and the direct URL requirement for hosted product data files. These instructions apply to that delivery method.
support.google.com
Google Merchant Center: Unique product identifiers ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- SKU vs GTIN: differences, barcodes, and variant IDs
Distinguishes store-specific SKUs from manufacturer-assigned identifiers and describes UPC/GTIN-12 and EAN/GTIN-13.
support.google.com
Google Merchant Center: Landing page requirements ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Does the product page match the variant you submitted?
Supports variant selection and consistent information during page load. This guide does not test or certify a real merchant account.
support.google.com
Google Merchant Center: Price ↗
Scope and citations in 3 guides
- Product data ownership: resolve a price conflict
Supports price/currency agreement and current price requirements. Does not prescribe ERP or PIM ownership, approval roles, or a five-minute tolerance.
- Product feed specification: Shopify, Google, and ChatGPT
Amount and currency, plus agreement with landing page and checkout.
- Can you copy a product feed unchanged? A 12-case test
Amount and currency, plus agreement with landing page and checkout.
support.google.com
Google Merchant Center: Product ID ↗
Scope and citations in 2 guides
- Product feed specification: Shopify, Google, and ChatGPT
Stable distinct product identifiers, including separate variant IDs.
- SKU vs GTIN: differences, barcodes, and variant IDs
Stable distinct product identifiers, including separate variant IDs.
support.google.com
Google Merchant Center: Availability ↗
Scope and citations in 3 guides
- Can your stock support more ad spend?
Supports accurate availability across offer, landing page, and checkout, and separate controls for pausing promotion. The calculator does not change product feeds or campaigns.
- Product data ownership: resolve a price conflict
Supports consistent availability across product data, landing page, and checkout. A data conflict is not evidence that stock is unavailable.
- Product feed specification: Shopify, Google, and ChatGPT
Google stock-state vocabulary and matching availability across shopping surfaces.
support.google.com
Google Merchant Center: GTIN ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- SKU vs GTIN: differences, barcodes, and variant IDs
Assigned trade-item identifiers, correct variant matching, and instructions not to guess a missing GTIN. The example ledger deliberately leaves assignment unknown.
support.google.com
Google Merchant Center: Shipping dimensions ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Product dimensions vs package dimensions: compare units safely
Package dimensions for carrier-calculated shipping; distinct from the product itself.
support.google.com
Google Merchant Center: Item group ID ↗
Scope and citations in 3 guides
- Product feed specification: Shopify, Google, and ChatGPT
Variant groups, identifying attributes, and matching landing-page values.
- Can you copy a product feed unchanged? A 12-case test
Variant groups, identifying attributes, and matching landing-page values.
- SKU vs GTIN: differences, barcodes, and variant IDs
Variant groups, identifying attributes, and matching landing-page values.
support.google.com
Google Merchant Center: Product data specification ↗
Scope and citations in 3 guides
- Product data an agent can use without guessing.
Supports stable identifiers, explicit variant attributes, and consistency between submitted data and the destination.
- Product feed specification: Shopify, Google, and ChatGPT
Google feed field names and category-dependent requirements. This reference does not cover every country, category, or program.
- Does the product page match the variant you submitted?
Supports matching submitted product facts with landing pages and structured data. The six-case test is an original editorial method.
support.google.com
Search Console: Generative AI performance report (Search) ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- How to measure AI citations and visible brand attribution
Defines AI link impressions, Search product scope, Web-report overlap and report aggregation. The answer-observation rubric here is editorial.
support.google.com
Search Console: Generative AI performance report (Search) ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- How to read Search Console’s generative AI report
Defines the Search report, impression counting, availability, and export limitations. Checked against the current documentation.
support.google.com
Google Search Console: Troubleshooting data discrepancies ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Why Search Console, GA4, and Vercel show different traffic numbers
Explains omitted anonymized queries, row limits, and aggregation differences. Missing query rows do not mean there were no search clicks.
support.google.com
Search Console: Dimensions and data groupings ↗
Scope and citations in 2 guides
- How to read Search Console’s generative AI report
Supports canonical-page reporting, omitted queries, filters, and reporting time boundaries.
- Search impressions but no clicks: a diagnostic and planning calculator
Supports canonical-page reporting, omitted queries, filters, and reporting time boundaries.
support.google.com
Search Console: About the data ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- How to read Search Console’s generative AI report
Explains property versus page aggregation, preliminary data, and unavailable values in exports.
support.google.com
Search Console: What are impressions, position, and clicks? ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- How to measure AI citations and visible brand attribution
Explains seen or potentially seen links, standard impression rules, aggregation and AI Mode follow-up queries. Impressions do not measure human recall.
support.google.com
Search Console: Performance report ↗
Scope and citations in 2 guides
- AI visibility metrics: impressions, citations, referrals, and outcomes
Defines search impressions, clicks, and CTR. The scenario formulas and decision rules here are editorial calculations.
- Search impressions but no clicks: a diagnostic and planning calculator
Defines search impressions, clicks, and CTR. The scenario formulas and decision rules here are editorial calculations.
vercel.com
Vercel: Web Analytics ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Why Search Console, GA4, and Vercel show different traffic numbers
Defines page views, daily visitor identification, and automated-traffic filtering. Does not establish the cause of a particular reporting gap.
www.anthropic.com
Anthropic: Building effective agents ↗
Scope and citations in 2 guides
- Agentic commerce starts with an operating model.
Supports the workflow-versus-agent distinction. The commerce operating contract and examples here are original editorial frameworks.
- From request to release: a supervised commerce workflow.
Supports evaluation and environment feedback as agent-design principles. The seven-stage commerce checklist is an original adaptation, not an Anthropic standard.
www.anthropic.com
Anthropic: Demystifying evals for AI agents ↗
Scope and citations in 2 guides
- How do you check AI product copy before publishing?
Supports task-specific evaluation, suitable graders, and inspecting outputs. The six cases, 18-run pilot, and release threshold are proposed choices, not a vendor standard.
- Did AI save time after review and rework?
Supports explicit success criteria, outcome checking, and complementary human review. This ledger and calculator are original editorial tools.
www.iamgeorgekelly.com
George Kelly: executable feed snapshot comparison, version 1.0.0 ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Why a product feed check can pass while the records disagree
Primary method artifact executed in this casebook. Defines exact-ID, USD, evidence-age and availability rules. The 24-hour limit is chosen for this experiment. Exact bytes are identified in the recorded result.
www.iamgeorgekelly.com
George Kelly: executable single-record product review, version 1.1.0 ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Why a product feed check can pass while the records disagree
Primary method artifact executed in this casebook. Defines the selected record checks; it is not provider documentation or independent validation. Exact bytes are identified in the recorded result.
www.ikea.com
BILLY bookcase combination — IKEA GB measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 99581815. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
BILLY bookcase with height extension unit — IKEA GB measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 39581880. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
BORGEBY side table — IKEA GB measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed diameter and overall height; the predefined three-axis comparison does not infer other axes from these values. Source update time unknown.
www.ikea.com
BRIMNES bookcase — IKEA GB measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 90301225. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
GLADOM tray table — IKEA GB measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed diameter and overall height; the predefined three-axis comparison does not infer other axes from these values. Source update time unknown.
www.ikea.com
HEMNES bookcase — IKEA GB measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 60413502. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
HOLMERUD side table — IKEA GB measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 40541421. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
OLSERÖD side table — IKEA GB measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 20525356. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
PINNTORP White Chair — IKEA GB measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 90635177. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
SKOGSTA chair — IKEA GB measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 50544867. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
BILLY bookcase combination — IKEA US measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 99581815. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
BILLY bookcase with height extension unit — IKEA US measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 39581880. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
BORGEBY side table — IKEA US measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed diameter and overall height; the predefined three-axis comparison does not infer other axes from these values. Source update time unknown.
www.ikea.com
BRIMNES bookcase — IKEA US measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 90301225. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
GLADOM tray table — IKEA US measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed diameter and overall height; the predefined three-axis comparison does not infer other axes from these values. Source update time unknown.
www.ikea.com
HEMNES bookcase — IKEA US measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 60413502. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
HOLMERUD side table — IKEA US measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 40541421. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
OLSERÖD side table — IKEA US measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 20525356. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
PINNTORP White Chair — IKEA US measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 90635177. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.ikea.com
SKOGSTA chair — IKEA US measurement section ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Comparing product dimensions across country pages: a 30-listing audit
Observed overall product dimensions for article 50544867. Retrieved through a public web reader that may use cached content; the source update time is unknown.
www.nist.gov
NIST: SI units — length ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Product dimensions vs package dimensions: compare units safely
Defines the inch as exactly 25.4 millimetres. Conversion cannot improve the original measurement.
www.nist.gov
NIST: Writing with SI units ↗
Scope and citations in 1 guide
- Product dimensions vs package dimensions: compare units safely
Explains preserving meaningful precision in conversions. The example tolerances are supplied scenario assumptions.