Tony Castillo is an AI Visibility Engineer and the founder of WISLR. With deep expertise in technical SEO, website migrations, and structured data, he helps e-commerce brands optimize their content for discovery and citation by AI platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Amazon Rufus. His work focuses on the intersection of traditional search optimization and the emerging AI search landscape, including crawl infrastructure, schema markup validation, and LLM readiness scoring.
About Tony Castillo
About Tony Castillo
Tony Castillo is an AI Visibility Engineer and the founder of WISLR, where he builds tools and strategies that help brands get discovered by AI platforms.
His background spans two decades of technical SEO, from large-scale website migrations and 301 redirect mapping to structured data architecture and crawl optimization. That foundation now drives his work in AI visibility: understanding how AI systems crawl, index, and cite web content, and building the infrastructure to make sure the right content gets surfaced.
What I Work On
- AI Channel Analytics Tracking how brands appear across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and other AI platforms
- Crawl Infrastructure Building pipelines that analyze how AI bots interact with websites, including server log analysis, render comparison, and schema validation
- Structured Data Strategy Designing JSON-LD and schema.org implementations that help AI systems understand content accurately
- Website Migrations Protecting organic search traffic during platform changes with comprehensive redirect strategies and crawl monitoring
- LLM Readiness Scoring Evaluating how well website content is optimized for ingestion by large language models and RAG pipelines
Recent Writing
Tony writes about the technical details behind AI visibility, web crawling, and search optimization on the WISLR Articles page. Recent topics include Cloudflare crawl endpoint benchmarking, AI bot traffic analysis, and server-side effects of browser-rendered crawling on Shopify stores.
Articles by Tony Castillo
Technical insights on AI visibility, web crawling, and search optimization.
Here's the Best Cloudflare /crawl Settings for Any Website
The best Cloudflare Browser Rendering /crawl settings for Shopify stores, WordPress, static sites, SPAs, and documentation sites. Covers render modes, …
Pros and Cons of the Cloudflare Crawl Endpoint with Shopify Stores
We tested Cloudflare's /crawl endpoint against five live Shopify stores and a full Scrapy pipeline. Real benchmarks on speed, cost, render modes, …
How Shopify Moved Checkout to Your Domain and Why It Matters for AI Visibility Analytics
Shopify's migration from checkout.shopify.com to same-domain checkout eliminated cross-domain tracking breakage, fixed GA4 attribution, and created …
Shopify Won't Give You Log Files. Here's a Complete Technical Guide to Get Them with Cloudflare (or any Edge CDN).
Shopify has never given store owners access to raw server logs, and that means AI bot traffic from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Googlebot is …
Is the URI Fetch Request the New 'Click' for an Agentic Web?
In a zero-click world where 60% of searches end without a click and 93% of AI Mode searches produce zero clicks, the URI fetch request has replaced …
OpenAI KPIs and Success Metrics: What Brands Should Measure in 2026
OpenAI's ecosystem is a brand discovery channel. Learn the key performance indicators and success metrics brands need to track across ChatGPT, …
AI Performance Metrics: Seven KPIs Every Brand Should Track
AI-driven discovery is a new channel, and it needs its own performance report. Learn the seven KPIs - from AI bot crawl rate to revenue attribution - …
AEO Readiness Guides Compared: WISLR vs Yotpo Commerce-GPT
A detailed comparison of WISLR's AEO Readiness Guide and Yotpo's Commerce-GPT for e-commerce brands optimizing for AI visibility. Understand which …
Understanding AI Visibility: What Every Brand Needs to Know
Learn how AI platforms discover and cite content, and why optimizing for AI visibility is becoming essential for modern brands.