How to find your robots.txt
- Visit
yourdomain.com/robots.txtin your browser - Select all text and copy it
- Paste it above and click "Check AI crawler access"
- Review which bots are blocked
- Run an AEO scan to verify your AI visibility
Why AI crawler access matters for AEO
AI answer engines can only cite your content if their crawlers can reach it. A single Disallow: / directive for GPTBot means ChatGPT — with 400+ million users — cannot reference your pages.
Allow these six critical bots: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI), Google-Extended (Gemini), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), and PerplexityBot. Together they drive 95%+ of AI search traffic.
AI crawler access is 1 of 12 AEO factors. Get your full score.
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