AI Bot Check

Tool for Analyzing Access Rights of AI Bots and Crawlers on Websites

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Version 3.0

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Tested AI Bots:

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How the AI Bot Checker Works

For your website content to be processed by AI systems, your website is crawled by AI bots (crawlers) such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot.

But bots don’t always have automatic access to your website!

Many users start optimizing their website content without checking whether the server allows the crawler and returns a 200 status code.

With the SEOSOON AI Bot Checker, you can check in just a few clicks whether:

Your server allows the most important AI bots
And what status code they receive
The checked URL is blocked by robots.txt.
The robots.txt blocks other directories.

What do the results mean for your website?

AI bots fall into four categories. Depending on which bots have access to your website, the way AI systems handle your content changes significantly.

AI Training Bots

GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider etc.

Training bots crawl websites to train AI models. Your content becomes part of the model's knowledge, but without any attribution. No user will know that the AI's answer is based on your content.

Blocked: Your knowledge does not train third-party models. You retain the exclusivity of your content.

Allowed: Your content improves AI models, but you most likely receive no attribution in return.

AI Assistant Bots

ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User

User bots fetch content when a user asks a specific question. This is especially common for time-sensitive topics like news, pricing changes or events. Unlike training bots, they usually cite the source with a link.

Blocked: The AI cannot retrieve your current content and will not link to you as a source. If training bots are also blocked, the AI relies entirely on third-party sources: review platforms, competitors or outdated directory listings then determine what is said about you.

Allowed: Your own content can be used and linked as a source in certain LLM responses (where grounding is performed).

AI Search Bots

OAI-SearchBot, Claude Search Bot

AI Search bots index websites for AI-powered search results, comparable to Google's search index but specifically for AI searches like ChatGPT Search or Perplexity.

Blocked: Your website may not be optimally displayed in LLM search results. Possible caching mechanisms and HTML-linked resources will not be crawled.

Allowed: Your site will be fully displayed in LLM search results and can be included in the LLM index.

Archiving Bots

CCBot (Common Crawl)

Archiving bots create public web archives that serve as training data for various AI models. Common Crawl is the largest public data source for AI training worldwide.

Strategic recommendations for optimal bot configuration and implementation guidance are available on this page at seosoon.de/ai-bot-check.

Who the AI Bot Check Is Relevant For

The AI Bot Check supports teams that want to strategically control visibility in AI systems and data access.

Publisher und Verlage

Identify whether AI bots are allowed to crawl editorial content and control access as needed.

E-Commerce-Unternehmen

Check whether AI bots can reach product and category pages — including robots.txt status.

B2B-Unternehmen

Ensure that company and service pages are technically accessible to AI bots.

New Tools & Updates

We are constantly working on new tools and workflows to make our work even more efficient. We are happy to share these with you!

Check if AI bots can crawl your site: ►AI Bot Checker

Which bots love your content: ► Log File Analysis for AI.

Get notified when we have updates, new tools, and workflows!

Frequently Asked Questions About the AI Bot Check

What’s important about AI bot access.

Sollte man KI-Bots grundsätzlich zulassen?

It depends on goals and industry: publishers often benefit from reach, while brands sometimes prioritize data control. Selective access (only certain paths) is often a good approach.

Welche Bots werden geprüft?

The AI Bot Check currently tests these important AI crawlers:

GPTBot (OpenAI / ChatGPT)
ClaudeBot (Anthropic / Claude AI)
PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User (Perplexity AI)
OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI Search Index)
CCBot (Common Crawl – public web archiving)

The tool distinguishes between bots that regularly crawl websites for AI models and those that retrieve content specifically for individual AI queries.

Speichert das Tool Daten?

The check runs server-side. Results are only prepared for display; no content from the checked site is stored.

Wie passe ich die Freigaben an?

Via robots.txt (Allow/Disallow per bot) or server-side rules (e.g., NGINX/Apache/CDN). For finer tuning: allow only specific directories.

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