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AI Crawler

AI crawler

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Definition

Crawlers that fetch web content, e.g. GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot. Allowing them is a prerequisite for being cited.

Why it matters

Being fetchable is the precondition for everything else. A site that blocks the retrieval bots cannot be cited at answer time no matter how good its content is.

How to measure it

Test with the real user agent, not just by reading robots.txt. A permissive robots.txt in front of a CDN rule or a firewall that returns 403 to those agents is a block in practice.

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FAQ

Questions teams ask before they start

Is GEO different from SEO?

They overlap on technical access and content quality, but GEO measures the answer itself — whether the brand is named, recommended and cited — instead of a ranking position.

How often should results be remeasured?

Keep the question set stable and rerun on a fixed cadence, then compare like with like. Changing questions and cadence at the same time makes results incomparable.

Does being cited mean being recommended?

No. A page can be cited as background while a competitor is the one actually recommended. The two are reported separately.

Is this written by AI?

Drafts can be generated, but every published piece goes through human review. Nothing reaches the site automatically.

How does this relate to traditional SEO?

It overlaps but is not the same. Both reward clear, credible content; only one of them is measured by whether a model names you in an answer.

Where do the definitions come from?

From how the measurement actually works in the product, so the vocabulary on the site and the numbers in the workspace mean the same thing.

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