Articles about "AI search visibility"

GPTBot trains OpenAI's models; OAI-SearchBot powers ChatGPT search citations. Two separate crawlers, two separate robots.txt tokens — here's which one to block.

Should you block AI crawlers? Blocking training bots like GPTBot while allowing search bots is usually the smart middle path. Here's the honest 2026 guide.

Want to get cited by ChatGPT in 2026? These 9 practical steps make your pages findable, parseable and trustworthy enough for ChatGPT to cite regularly.

Block ClaudeBot with two lines of robots.txt. Which of Anthropic's three crawlers to stop, copy-paste rules, verification steps, and trade-offs explained.

Generative engine optimization (GEO) gets your content cited by AI search. Here is a 2026 checklist of 25 practical steps, from content structure to llms.txt and crawler rules.

Should you block PerplexityBot? The nuanced 2026 answer: allow it for cited referral traffic — Perplexity says it doesn't train models — unless you need a full opt-out from AI search.

Your site missing from ChatGPT, Claude or AI Overviews? It's usually your own robots.txt or firewall blocking the search bots. Here are 9 reasons and fixes.

Every verified AI crawler user agent in 2026 — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and more — with what each does and exact robots.txt controls.

identity.json is a small file that declares your site's identity to AI search. But does Bing actually read it? Here's what the evidence really says in 2026.

No free tool tracks AI rankings like Google rankings. A 20-prompt test, Search Console's AI report and GA4 referrals reveal your AI search visibility free.

Blocking every AI bot costs you ChatGPT and Perplexity citations. The selective allowlist strategy: block training bots (GPTBot, CCBot, ClaudeBot), allow answer engines (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot) — with template and verification steps.

Get cited by Claude without feeding its training data: allow Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User, block ClaudeBot, and write pages that are easy to quote.

Get cited by Google Gemini: Gemini grounds answers in live Google Search, so ranking well and writing quotable, fresh passages is how your pages earn citations.

Get cited by Grok: xAI reads live web search and real-time X posts, so citations come mostly from what others say about you. Build both halves of that presence.

Track brand mentions in AI answers for free: test prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, record the results, and repeat monthly.