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Can hidden blogs get cited by LLM’s?
Posted by on September 26, 2025 at 1:57 pmHey, so I've been working with GEO quite a lot lately, and I've noticed many citation references in queries like "Best x in [location]" are from self promotional company blogs.
Now I know that targeting prompts in your content works, but I'm thinking of implementation tactics for such blogs, since they don't look that good in the human eye.
So, my thought is to upload them on a separate blog page, that isn't accesible from the main page. Would that get indexed/cited by AI engines or is linking to it from the main page mandatory?
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What is a hidden blog?
>Would that get indexed/cited by AI engines
Serious question u/Pre-WorkOutMdfq – why do you think that AI “engines” index content? they are not search engines
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LLMs don’t crawl the web like Googlebot, so hiding a blog on your site won’t matter in the way you’re thinking. They’re trained on huge datasets that include public web content, but whether your specific post ever shows up in AI outputs is more about if it’s indexed, linked, and widely discoverable on the open web.
If you put content on a page with no internal links, it can still get indexed if it’s in your sitemap or picked up through external backlinks. If it’s truly orphaned it’s less likely to get traction anywhere. For SEO and AI citation purposes, treating it like normal web content that is crawlable, linkable, and optimized gives you a much better shot than trying to hide it off-menu.
Curious, are you aiming for the human side of SEO traffic first, or mainly experimenting to see if AI models pick it up?
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If you can get these pages to be indexed and ranked by Bing and Google, they have a realistic chance to be cited by LLM-based search and answer engines – if they perform a websearch.
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