AI Search Visibility Guides

Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the practice of making a website easy for AI search engines such as ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot to access, understand and cite. These guides cover the technical basics, in the order we recommend fixing them.

AI crawler checker: is GPTBot or OAI-SearchBot blocked?

Test 9 AI and search bots against robots.txt and live access, with a robots.txt example.

AI shopping agent readiness / agentic commerce checker

Is your store ready for ChatGPT shopping? Product JSON-LD, feeds, llms.txt, crawlers and policies.

llms.txt checker and template

What llms.txt is, whether AI engines use it, and a copy-paste template.

Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers: how to fix it

5 steps to find and fix Cloudflare rules that hide your site from ChatGPT Search and Perplexity.

Structured data checker for Product, Review and FAQ schema

Find missing schema and get JSON-LD fix code.

AI visibility checker alternatives

Free and paid tools compared, including Ahrefs and Semrush.

Recommended order

  1. Make sure AI crawlers can reach your pages (robots.txt + WAF).
  2. Fix Cloudflare or CDN blocks if the check fails.
  3. Complete Product, FAQ and Organization schema.
  4. Check AI shopping agent readiness (feeds, policies, product fields).
  5. Publish an llms.txt summary.
  6. Track AI mentions on Gemini and Perplexity weekly (plans from $19/month).