The AI Visibility Checker helps you understand whether your website is accessible to AI-powered search engines and answer engines. As AI search becomes increasingly important for content discovery, ensuring your site is crawlable by AI bots like GPTBot, PerplexityBot, and ClaudeBot is critical for visibility.
Simply enter your website URL and our tool will analyze your robots.txt file to determine which AI crawlers are allowed or blocked. You'll receive a detailed breakdown showing the access status for each major AI crawler, along with specific recommendations to improve your AI search visibility.
This tool is essential for SEO professionals, content marketers, and website owners who want to ensure their content can be discovered and cited by AI answer engines. With the rise of ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, AI visibility has become a key factor in modern SEO strategy.
Get results in just a few simple steps
Enter your website URL in the input field
Our tool fetches and parses your robots.txt file
We check rules for major AI crawlers: GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended
You receive a visibility score and detailed breakdown
Get specific recommendations to improve AI crawler access
Don't make these frequent errors
Blocking all bots with 'User-agent: *' without allowing specific AI crawlers
Using outdated robots.txt without rules for newer AI bots
Accidentally blocking Googlebot-Extended instead of just Google-Extended
Not testing robots.txt after making changes
Forgetting that robots.txt is case-sensitive for user-agent names
We check for GPTBot (ChatGPT), PerplexityBot (Perplexity AI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic Claude), Google-Extended (Google AI features), and Applebot-Extended (Apple Intelligence). These are the major AI crawlers that power modern AI search and answer engines.
Allowing AI crawlers enables your content to appear in AI-powered search results, citations, and answer engines. As more users turn to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews for information, blocking AI crawlers means missing out on significant traffic and visibility opportunities.
Yes, the AI Visibility Checker is completely free. You can check unlimited websites and there's no signup required. We built this tool to help the SEO community understand and optimize for AI search.
We recommend checking whenever you update your robots.txt file or at least quarterly. AI crawler landscape evolves as new bots emerge, so regular checks ensure you're not accidentally blocking important AI search engines.
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