Free tool by AISearch Global · Australia's pure-play AEO consultancy · Sydney
Free Tool · AISearch Global

AI Crawler
Checker

Enter your URL — AISearch Global checks whether robots.txt or a meta robots tag is blocking AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended from reading your site.

Works globally — any public website, any country
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Any valid domain works — .com, .com.au, .net, and more.

AISearch Global fetches your live site — no signup, no data stored

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Crawler access is one signal. AISearch Global's AI Visibility Audit checks every technical and content signal AI engines use before citing your business.

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About this tool

The AISearch Global AI Crawler Checker looks at the two most common ways a site accidentally blocks AI systems from reading it: a blanket Disallow: / rule in robots.txt under User-agent: *, and a page-level noindex directive in the meta robots tag. Either one can silently remove your business from consideration by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other answer engines — even if the rest of your AEO signals are strong.

For a full technical AEO review beyond crawler access, see the AISearch Global AI Visibility Audit.

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Frequently asked questions

What does the AI Crawler Checker actually check?

It fetches your site's robots.txt and checks whether it disallows all crawlers under a User-agent: * block, and it checks the page's meta robots tag for a noindex directive. These are the two most common ways a site accidentally blocks AI crawlers.

Why would AI crawlers be blocked?

Many sites use a blanket Disallow: / rule in robots.txt intended for staging environments, or a noindex tag left over from development, without realising it also blocks AI systems like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended from reading and citing the page.

If AI crawlers are blocked, can I fix it myself?

Yes — remove the blanket disallow rule from robots.txt or the noindex meta tag from the page, then re-run this check to confirm. If you're unsure which crawlers to allow, AISearch Global's AI Visibility Audit reviews this as part of a full technical AEO check.