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AI Crawl Access Checker

Is your website accidentally hiding from the world’s most powerful AI engines? Audit your robots.txt file and CDN settings to ensure bots like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended have the access they need to index and cite your content.

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AI Crawl Access Checker Overview

    
The AI Crawl Access Checker is a technical diagnostic tool built to solve a critical problem in modern SEO: AI Visibility. Many websites unknowingly block AI crawlers through legacy robots.txt directives or aggressive CDN/WAF (Web Application Firewall) settings like Cloudflare’s bot management.


This tool performs a deep scan of your crawl instructions, calculating an AI Visibility Risk Score (where 0 indicates full, optimized access). By analyzing specific paths and bot-user-agents, it identifies whether your site is “Partially Restricted” or “Excellent,” and provides a copy-paste ready, optimized robots.txt configuration to maximize your presence in AI-generated search results.

  







  

    
How to use AI Crawl Access Checker


    
The AI Crawl Access Checker allows you to audit your site’s machine-readability in three simple steps. First, Paste your robots.txt content into the input field—you can find this file by visiting yourdomain.com/robots.txt. Next, indicate if you use Cloudflare or other CDN/WAF providers, as these platforms often have background settings that override your robots.txt instructions.


Finally, select the specific AI bots you would like to check, such as GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), or PerplexityBot. Click “Analyse robots.txt” to generate your report. You will receive an instant AI Visibility Risk Score and a status badge for each bot. If issues are found, the tool will provide a Recommended robots.txt configuration that you can copy and deploy to your server immediately to clear any “Partial” restrictions.

    

          

  








  

    
Why Use the AI Crawl Access Checker?

    
Choosing the right go‑to‑market model early can radically improve how fast and efficiently your fintech reaches product‑market fit, accelerates adoption, and grows revenue:




    

            

	  
        
Verify AI Search Visibility

        
Discover if bots like OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT Search) are restricted from indexing your high-value pages.

      

            

	  
        
Audit WAF & CDN Blockers

        
Cloudflare and other CDNs often block “Verified Bots” by default. This tool helps you identify if your firewall is a hidden barrier to AI traffic

      

            

	  
        
Fix 'Partial' Restrictions

        
See exactly which paths (e.g., /admin/ or /private/) are restricted and ensure that important content directories remain open.

      

                

  















    

		
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FAQs

        

            
What is an 'AI Visibility Risk Score'?

      

        
This score measures how much of your site is hidden from AI. A score of 0 is the goal, representing “Full Access.” Higher scores indicate that critical bots are being blocked from indexing your content.

      

            
Why should I explicitly allow 'Google-Extended'?

      

        
Google-Extended is the standalone bot used to improve Gemini and other Google AI models. Even if you allow standard Googlebot, you must ensure this specific agent is not disallowed to remain relevant in Google’s AI ecosystem.

      

            
How does Cloudflare affect AI crawling?

      

        
Cloudflare has a “Bot Fight Mode” and “Verified Bot” settings. Even if your robots.txt says “Allow,” Cloudflare can block bots at the network level. Our tool reminds you to check these settings if Cloudflare is detected.

      

            
Is it safe to allow 'GPTBot' to crawl my whole site?

      

        
Generally, yes. However, you should always use Disallow directives for sensitive areas like /wp-admin/ or /temp/ to ensure the AI only indexes public-facing, valuable content.

      

            
What is 'CCBot' (Common Crawl)?

      

        
CCBot is the crawler for Common Crawl, a massive dataset used to train many LLMs. Allowing CCBot ensures your data is included in the foundational training sets for future AI models.

      

                

  






  

    



  























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