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How do I check if ChatGPT can see my website?
Answered by Ryan, RankNext strategist · Updated July 2, 2026
The short answer
Three checks: your robots.txt must not disallow GPTBot or OAI-SearchBot; your pages must contain their content in the raw HTML (view source and search for your phone number); and your host or CDN must not be challenge-blocking bots. Our free AEO checker runs all three against your live site in seconds.
The manual version, if you like doing it yourself
One: open yoursite.com/robots.txt and read every Disallow under GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, or a bare asterisk. Two: open a page, view source, and search for facts a customer needs — phone, city, services. If they only appear after JavaScript runs, most crawlers never see them. Three: fetch a page with a crawler user-agent (or just watch your CDN's bot rules) to catch challenge pages.
While you're in there, check the adjacent engines too — PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Applebot — because the same misconfigurations usually block them together.
The thirty-second version
Our AEO Readiness Checker fetches your live page exactly like an answer-engine crawler: it verifies access, confirms readable server-rendered content, checks LocalBusiness schema and llms.txt, and flags each failure with the fix. No signup, nothing stored.
If it comes back clean and you're still not being named, the blocker is upstream — corroboration, reviews, or content depth — which is what the fuller free visibility check diagnoses.
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