ai-visibility-auditlisted

# AI Visibility Audit Getting cited by an AI answer engine has three prerequisites, in order. Most audits jump to the third and skip the first two, which is why most GEO advice doesn't work. ``` 1. Can the model's crawler fetch the page? Access 2. Is the answer in the fetched HTML, in extractable form? Extraction 3. Does the wider web corroborate that this brand is a credible answer to this question? Corroboration ``` Nothing on this page is a trick. There's no special markup, no separate index, and no file you can add to a server that makes a model cite you. Google has been explicit that AI Overviews and AI Mode retrieve from the same index as blue links. The job is the ordinary job, done better and made machine-readable. ## Step 1: Access Start here because it's binary and it's frequently the whole answer. ```bash curl -s https://example.com/robots.txt ``` Check the policy for each retrieval agent. They split into three jobs, and the distinction matters: | Agent | Operator | What it does | |---|---|---| | `GPTBot` | OpenAI | Training crawl | | `OAI-SearchBot` | OpenAI | Builds the ChatGPT search index | | `ChatGPT-User` | OpenAI | Live fetch when a user's prompt triggers browsing | | `ClaudeBot` | Anthropic | Training crawl | | `Claude-User`, `Claude-SearchBot` | Anthropic | Live fetch and search indexing | | `PerplexityBot` | Perplexity | Search index | | `Perplexity-User` | Perplexity | Live fetch for a specific answer | | `Google-Exte