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A Claude Referral After 30 Days: The Minimum Viable G.E.O. Setup
In this AEO Engine episode, a Chinese indie builder details the minimum viable G.E.O. setup — structured pages, GPTBot and ClaudeBot crawler access, and an llms.txt file — that produced a paying customer referred from Claude after 30 days.
Key takeaways:
GPTBot and ClaudeBot crawler access is a prerequisite for LLM-driven customer referrals.
An llms.txt file plus structured pages produced a Claude referral within 30 days.
One indie builder's entire G.E.O. setup required only three technical changes.
Claude can act as a direct customer acquisition channel, not just a productivity tool.
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