Is Your Website Visible to ChatGPT & AI Search?

Your next customer is asking ChatGPT, Copilot, or Perplexity who to hire. This free checker tells you whether those engines can even read your website — and what to fix if they can't.

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How do I know if AI engines like ChatGPT can see my website?

Check three layers: access (does your robots.txt allow AI crawlers like OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Bingbot, and Googlebot?), guidance (do you publish an llms.txt file?), and structure (does your page carry FAQ/Article schema, lead with a direct answer, and serve real content without JavaScript?). Ijjad's free AI Visibility Checker reads all three from your live site and scores you out of 100.

  • A crawler blocked in robots.txt can never cite you — and aggressive * rules block AI bots by accident.
  • Most AI crawlers do not execute JavaScript: if your content only renders client-side, they see a blank page.
  • Schema, direct answers, and llms.txt are the difference between being readable and being quotable.

Free AI Visibility Checker

Can ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity, and Google AI actually read and cite your website? We check your robots.txt against 9 AI crawlers, your llms.txt, your schema, and whether your content is structured for AI answers.

The checker reads your live page, robots.txt, and llms.txt. It verifies access and structure — it cannot see inside any AI company's index, and no tool can. Pair it with our SEO scanner for the classic-search side.

Why AI visibility decides who gets the customer

Search is splitting in two. The classic ten blue links still matter — but a growing share of buying questions are answered by one AI response that names two or three businesses. Either you are in that answer, or a competitor is.

1. Access is binary

If OAI-SearchBot or PerplexityBot is blocked in robots.txt — often by an old catch-all rule nobody remembers writing — your site cannot appear in those answers no matter how good it is. This is the first thing we check because it is the most common silent killer.

2. Structure decides quotability

AI engines quote pages that answer fast: a direct answer up top, question-style headings, FAQ and Article schema, and an Organization entity so the engine knows who is speaking. Pages built as walls of marketing copy get read and skipped.

3. JavaScript is a wall

Most AI crawlers read raw HTML and do not run JavaScript. A site built as a client-rendered app can look perfect in a browser and be effectively blank to ChatGPT. Server-rendered content is non-negotiable for AI search.

This checker is built on the same playbook Ijjad applies to client sites — the one that has Microsoft Copilot citing our own pages. The methodology is public: what GEO is, the 7 schema types AI engines read, and the bilingual LLM SEO checklist.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the AI Visibility Checker actually check?

Three layers. Access: whether your robots.txt allows or blocks 9 AI crawlers — OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Bingbot, Googlebot, Google-Extended, and CCBot. Guidance: whether you publish an llms.txt file. Structure: whether your page carries AI-readable schema, leads with a direct answer, permits snippets, and serves real content without JavaScript. Everything is read from your live site — nothing is self-reported.

Why would ChatGPT or Perplexity not mention my business?

Four common reasons, in order: your robots.txt blocks their crawlers (often by accident, via an aggressive * rule); your content only renders with JavaScript, which most AI crawlers do not execute; your pages have no structured data or direct answers for engines to quote; or your business simply lacks the citable content and entity mentions that AI answers are built from. The checker diagnoses the first three in seconds.

Should I allow or block AI training bots like GPTBot?

It is a real trade-off. Blocking GPTBot, Google-Extended, and CCBot keeps your content out of future model training — a legitimate choice for publishers who sell content. But for a business that wants customers, being known to the models is marketing: if future models never read you, they will recommend competitors instead. For most SMEs we recommend allowing both training and search crawlers.

What is llms.txt and do I need one?

llms.txt is an emerging standard — a plain-text file at yoursite.com/llms.txt that gives AI systems a curated guide to your site: who you are, your key pages, and when to cite them. It is not yet universally consumed, but it costs an hour, several AI crawlers already fetch it, and almost none of your competitors have one. Low effort, asymmetric upside.

Can any tool tell me if ChatGPT is already citing my site?

Not directly — AI companies do not publish their indexes. Two honest proxies exist: Bing Webmaster Tools has an AI Performance report showing Microsoft Copilot citations of your site, and you can ask the engines yourself with the questions your customers ask. This checker covers the other side: whether you are technically possible to cite at all.

My score is high but AI engines still never mention my business. Why?

A high score means engines can read and quote you — the entry ticket. Actually being cited also requires content worth citing (comparisons, data, tools, direct answers to real questions), entity signals (your brand named on other sites), and authority. That gap is exactly what an Answer Engine Optimization engagement closes.

Want your business to be the answer AI engines give? We retrofit sites for AI search — schema, answer blocks, llms.txt, entity signals, and citable content.

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