AI & SEO Tools Blog

Does blocking GPTBot hurt SEO? No. GPTBot is OpenAI's training crawler — separate from Google Search and from OAI-SearchBot, which powers ChatGPT citations. What actually happens when you block it, and the one mistake that does cost visibility.

Generative engine optimization (GEO) gets your content cited by AI search. Here is a 2026 checklist of 25 practical steps, from content structure to llms.txt and crawler rules.

Your site missing from ChatGPT, Claude or AI Overviews? It's usually your own robots.txt or firewall blocking the search bots. Here are 9 reasons and fixes.

We checked the robots.txt files of 40 major websites. ClaudeBot and Bytespider are blocked by 81% of them — while GPTBot, the most famous AI crawler, is blocked by only 62%. Full data inside.

Zero-click search statistics through 2026: how many searches end without a click, what AI Overviews do to CTR (Pew, Ahrefs, Semrush, Seer data), and 7 practical moves for site owners.

What is Bytespider, ByteDance's AI training crawler — and how to block it properly. Robots.txt rules plus .htaccess, nginx, and Cloudflare enforcement, since it has a history of ignoring robots.txt.

Robots.txt vs .htaccess vs Cloudflare for blocking AI bots: which enforces, which only asks, and the right combination for your site.

No simple off switch exists for Google AI Overviews. Here are the real 2026 opt-out options: the Search Console toggle, snippet controls, and what doesn't work.