AI CitabilityCheck
Is your website silently blocking ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity or Claude? One hidden robots.txt rule or firewall setting, and your pages will never be cited, no matter how good your content is. Scan any page and get the complete verdict in seconds.
25 free credits included • No credit card required
What is the AI Citability Check?
The AI Citability Check verifies whether a page can technically be cited by AI engines, before you spend a single euro on content or optimization. It inspects the technical gate every AI engine must pass: crawl permissions, indexing directives, and firewall behavior.
Many websites block AI crawlers without knowing it: a bot-blocking option enabled by default on a CDN, a robots.txt rule added by a plugin, a noindex left over from a redesign. These blockers are invisible in a normal browser, and they make every other AI visibility effort pointless.
Why it matters
An AI engine can only cite what it is allowed to read. If a single technical blocker exists, your page will never appear in AI answers, no matter how good the content is. Checking citability first is what makes every other optimization worth doing.
How It Works
Your complete citability verdict in three steps
Enter a Page URL
Paste the URL of any public page, yours or one you manage. No configuration needed: all four AI engines are covered in every scan.
We Check Everything
The scan reads your robots.txt, indexing directives and sitemap, then crawls the page with multiple AI crawler identities and compares each response against a browser baseline.
Get the Verdict & Fixes
Read the citability card (one verdict per engine), then work through the prioritized findings, each with its evidence and its exact fix. Re-scan after fixing to confirm.
Powerful Features
Everything you need to verify, and prove, that your pages are citable
Per-Engine Verdict Card
A clear citable / partial / blocked verdict for Google AI, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude, with the exact crawlers checked for each engine.
Firewall Blocking Detection
The page is crawled with multiple AI crawler identities and compared against a browser baseline, revealing CDN and firewall rules that silently reject AI engines while the page looks perfectly fine in a browser.
Full robots.txt Analysis
Every relevant AI crawler is checked against your robots.txt rules, including the ones your CDN or plugins may have blocked by default without you knowing.
Indexing & Snippet Directives
Detects noindex, nosnippet, max-snippet:0 and data-nosnippet directives, in both your HTML meta tags and your HTTP headers, where they often hide.
Evidence With Every Finding
Every issue comes with its proof: the exact robots.txt lines, header values or status code comparisons observed. Nothing to take on faith.
Exact Fixes, Prioritized
Findings are ordered by severity with the precise corrective action for each, plus the full list of checks your page already passes.
Real-World Use Cases
How SEO professionals and site owners use the AI Citability Check
SEO Consultants
Run the citability check as the first step of every AI visibility engagement. If the page is technically blocked, no content work will ever pay off. Catch it before investing, and deliver the fix list as a ready-made client report.
SEO Agencies
Screen every new client site in seconds. Firewall rules and robots.txt blocks added by CDNs or plugins are invisible from a browser, so surface them with evidence your client can hand directly to their developer.
Site Owners & Entrepreneurs
You publish good content but AI engines never mention your pages? Verify the technical basics first: one leftover noindex or a default bot-blocking setting can make your whole site invisible to AI answers.
After Migrations & CDN Changes
Redesigns, domain migrations and CDN or security changes are where blockers appear silently. Re-scan your key pages after every change, and after every fix, to confirm your pages stayed citable.
Evidence, Not Opinions
Every scan runs live checks on your page at the moment you launch it. Every finding shows the exact evidence it was built on: the robots.txt lines, the header values, the status code comparison between a browser and each AI crawler identity.
And when something cannot be verified, the report says so honestly instead of guessing, because a wrong verdict would make you fix a problem that does not exist.
One Fixed Price
No subscription, no options, no surprises. Every scan covers all four AI engines for the same fixed price.
Is Your Site Blocking AI Engines Right Now?
Find out in seconds: one scan, four engines, every blocker exposed with its evidence and its fix. Start with 25 free credits.