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Will AI recommend your business?

Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini instead of Googling. Run a free 10-second check to see whether AI answer engines can crawl, understand and cite your site — and exactly what to fix if they can't.

Free — 5 checks per day. No signup.

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How the checker works

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We fetch four things from your site — robots.txt, llms.txt, your homepage and your sitemap — and score what AI answer engines actually see:

  • AI crawler access (40 pts) — whether GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and Bingbot are allowed to read your site. A blocked crawler means that engine can never cite you.
  • Structured data (25 pts) — JSON-LD entity and FAQ/HowTo markup, the raw material AI engines quote from.
  • Content signals (15 pts) — title, meta description and headings that state plainly what you do.
  • AI content guidance (10 pts) — an llms.txt file pointing engines at your best pages.
  • Discoverability (10 pts) — an XML sitemap for coverage.

Full transparency on what we fetch and how: about the checker.

Learn Answer Engine Optimization

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New to AEO? Start here:

  1. What is Answer Engine Optimization? — the discipline, in plain English.
  2. AEO vs SEO — what carries over and what changes.
  3. How to get cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity — the practical playbook.
  4. robots.txt for AI crawlers — the file that decides everything, done right.
  5. The llms.txt guide — the emerging standard, with copy-paste examples.
  6. FAQ schema for AEO — the highest-leverage markup for citations.
  7. What is an AI visibility score? — how our 100-point score works.
  8. GEO explained — how Generative Engine Optimization relates to AEO.
  9. The Magento AEO checklist — for ecommerce stores specifically.

Or look up a specific bot in the AI crawler directory — GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Bingbot, CCBot and Applebot-Extended, each with user agent strings and robots.txt guidance.

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Selling online? AI answer engines now decide which stores get named when shoppers ask what to buy. Start with the pillar, then the deep dives:

  1. AEO for ecommerce — the complete playbook — the six foundations, in order.
  2. How to get products recommended by ChatGPT Shopping — the feed, crawler and schema work.
  3. Why ChatGPT doesn’t recommend your store — 7 causes ranked, each with the fix.
  4. Shopify vs Magento vs headless for AI visibility — pick the right platform.
  5. The Magento AEO checklist — the Magento-specific version.

Choosing tools, checkers and agencies

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Before you spend anything, know what actually helps — and what you don’t need yet:

  1. Best AI visibility tools compared (2026) — the independent list, real pricing, who each is for.
  2. Best free AI visibility checkers — the two kinds, and where ours fits honestly.
  3. GEO agency vs DIY — what £1.5k–£50k/mo buys, and the sub-£3k red flag.

Frequently asked questions

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What does the checker test? It fetches your robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap and homepage, then scores AI crawler access, structured data, content signals and discoverability — the factors answer engines use when deciding whether to cite a site.

Is it free? Yes — 5 checks per day, no signup. The limit resets at midnight UTC.

Why isn’t my site cited by ChatGPT or Perplexity? Usually one of four things: your robots.txt blocks AI crawlers, you have no structured data, your titles and descriptions don’t say what you do, or your content never states a clear, quotable answer. Run the check above — it will tell you which.