AI-Blocked Content: Pages People Can Read but AI Crawlers Can't
Pages that load fine in a browser can still be closed to AI crawlers by paywalls, challenges or headers. Find these hidden blocks and decide which ones you really want.
Pages that load fine in a browser can still be closed to AI crawlers by paywalls, challenges or headers. Find these hidden blocks and decide which ones you really want.
When AI assistants answer questions in your field, some domains get cited and others don't. Test a set of prompts, record the sources and see where rivals lead.
People ask assistants to compare options. Give your pages structured, honest pricing, feature and limit facts so you're included accurately instead of left out.
AI assistants and answer engines use their own crawlers. Check robots.txt, firewalls and CDN rules to see which ones can reach your content, then decide what to allow.
Assistants recommend products when pages state who they suit, what they cost and what they do. Check your key pages for the facts a recommendation needs.
Crawlability, indexability, entity clarity, extractability, authority and AI visibility each tell part of the story. Combine them into one score you can track and act on.
Share of voice shows how visible you are against competitors across a fixed set of AI prompts. Here is a simple, repeatable way to measure it without fooling yourself.
A page can answer the main question and still leave readers with obvious follow-ups. Find those missing questions and add them without bloating the page.
Give a page and a question to an AI tool and see what comes back. Where the answer is wrong, vague or missing, the page needs clearer writing. Here's how to test.
Check whether authoritative outside sources name your brand, products, people and key facts the same way your site does, and fix the mismatches you can influence.
An AI answer can name your brand without sending anyone to your site. Learn how to tell mentions from citations, measure both and work out why the gap exists.
Answer engines lift short, self-contained passages. Learn how to find the ones on your site, and rewrite vague paragraphs so they stand alone and state a clear fact.
AI answers in a topic tend to cite the same types of pages again and again. Learn to spot the pattern in your field and build the content types that actually get used.
If a core concept is never defined in plain words, neither readers nor AI systems can explain it for you. Audit your terms and write short, standalone definitions.
Search and AI systems build a picture of your company from many sources. Align names, addresses, schema and profiles so that picture is the same everywhere.
Search and AI systems understand sites through relationships like company to founder or product to category. Extract yours, spot gaps and state them clearly.
Statistics, rankings and bold claims without a source or date lose trust. Audit the factual statements on key pages and add evidence, dates and references.
When a heading asks a question and the answer sits three paragraphs down, both people and machines struggle. Measure the gap and move answers to the top.
Naming a source is not the same as attributing it well. Review how your pages credit data, quotes and ideas so readers and AI systems can trace each claim back.
AI systems lean on what other sites say about a brand. Find the reviews, lists and articles that feature competitors, then plan honest ways to earn your place.