Common Crawl AI Visibility Audit: Check If LLM Crawlers Can See Your Site
Use Common Crawl's free index and CCBot checks to see whether your pages appear in the public crawl AI teams may use. Includes commands,...
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AI crawlers, bots and llms.txt
Log-file studies and implementation reviews of AI crawlers, robots.txt, llms.txt and site access for automated agents.
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EntityMap for AI Search SEO: Useful Discipline or Another Magic File?
Entity Map can help SEOs declare entities, relations, and evidence for AI retrieval, but its real value is audit discipline rather than guaranteed citations.
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Google Says You Do Not Need llms.txt. Lighthouse Checks It Anyway.
Google Search says llms.txt is not required for AI Overviews or AI Mode, while Chrome Lighthouse now audits it for Agentic Browsing. Here is...
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OpenAI Crawl Activity Triples Post-GPT-5 While AI Overviews Cut Organic Clicks 38% | SEO Data Briefing
New Botify data shows Open AI crawler activity surged 3.5x after GPT-5 launch, with healthcare crawling up 740%. Meanwhile, a 1,065-person field study finds...
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OpenAI Tripled Its Web Crawl: What the 7-Billion Log File Study Means for Your SEO
A Botify/Nectiv analysis of 7 billion server log events reveals OAI-Search Bot surged 3.5× after GPT-5, Chat GPT-User dropped 28%, and traditional top-10 rankings...
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Only 4% of Websites Are Ready for AI Agents: Cloudflare Data, OAI-AdsBot, and the Robots.txt Shakeup (April 2026)
Cloudflare's Agent Readiness Score reveals only 4% of 200 K top domains declare AI usage preferences. Open AI adds OAI-Ads Bot with no published...
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68 Million AI Crawler Visits Reveal What Drives AI Search Visibility — Plus the Ghost Citation Problem
A study of 68.9 million AI crawler visits across 858,457 sites shows Open AI controls 81% of AI crawl traffic. Separate research reveals 62%...
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68.9 Million AI Crawler Visits Analyzed — OpenAI Commands 81% of All AI Crawl Traffic
A study of 858 K sites and 68.9 M AI crawler visits reveals Open AI sends 81% of AI crawl traffic, content depth drives...
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Cloudflare's Agent Readiness Score — Only 4% of Sites Are Prepared for AI Agents
Cloudflare Radar analyzed 200,000 domains and found only 4% declare AI preferences. Plus: AI Training Redirects enforce canonicals for GPTBot and Claude Bot, and...
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