Verify AI crawlers can reach you
Evidence: 9/10 · Large study
27% of sites block at least one major LLM crawler, usually unintentionally at CDN/WAF ('invisible 403'); check GPTBot/ClaudeBot/PerplexityBot in server logs
How to implement this
- AI SEO: The Complete Operating Guide for 2026 →
AI SEO means optimizing for two consumers at once: search rankers and answer engines.
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