Audit your access decisions for every major AI crawler, and check whether Common Crawl has actually captured your site well.

AI Crawler Access Audit Checklist

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[[p]]Most robots.txt files were never actually written with AI crawlers in mind, they either block everything by default and quietly opt out of AI search visibility, or allow everything without anyone deciding that&#39;s the right call. And even where CCBot is technically permitted, that&#39;s often mistaken for proof of good representation in the Common Crawl dataset, when it&#39;s really just a permission setting. Nobody&#39;s actually checked whether the site is well captured. This checklist replaces those assumptions with a deliberate decision, bot by bot, plus the verification step most technical audits skip entirely.[[/p]]

[[p]]This toolkit can help in several ways.[[/p]]

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	[[li]][[strong]]Twelve named crawlers[[/strong]], from GPTBot to PerplexityBot, logged against your actual robots.txt status instead of an assumed default.[[/li]]
	[[li]][[strong]]A JavaScript visibility check[[/strong]], because content that only renders client-side is invisible to crawlers that don&#39;t execute JS.[[/li]]
	[[li]][[strong]]Real Common Crawl verification[[/strong]], checking capture and recency rather than treating "not blocked" as "well represented.[[/li]]
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