Getting found in AI search.
People ask ChatGPT and Google's AI for a recommendation before they ever see a list of links. Those tools read your website first. Here's which ones are reading, from our own data, and what they need to find you.
Who's reading your site.
We log every visit from an AI or search crawler to the sites we host. Gold bars are tools that can send a customer back to you. Gray bars only collect pages to train future models.
What they need from you.
Not tricks. The same things that make a site good for people, done properly.
Pages that load fast
AI tools often fetch your page while they answer, and they don't wait long. A slow page can be skipped.
Content in the page itself
AI crawlers don't run scripts. If your words only appear after JavaScript runs, they see a blank page.
Clear answers
Plain questions with plain answers, like the FAQs on this page, are easy for an AI to quote correctly.
Facts that agree
Your name, address, phone and services saying the same thing on your site, your Google profile and everywhere else.
Questions we hear.
Do AI tools like ChatGPT read my website?
Yes, constantly. On the sites we run, ChatGPT's search crawler alone fetched pages more than 6,000 times in two months, and ChatGPT also fetches pages live while answering someone's question.
How do I show up in AI answers?
There's no switch to flip. AI tools quote pages they can load quickly, read without running scripts and understand clearly, from businesses whose facts agree everywhere. That's the same foundation we build into every site.
Should I block AI crawlers?
Usually not the search ones: they're how AI tools find you to recommend. Training crawlers are a judgment call, and we can block them for you if you'd rather your content wasn't used that way.
Does site speed matter for AI search?
It helps AI tools read you. A slow page, or one that only appears after scripts run, can be skipped before it's ever quoted.
Keep reading.
Can AI tools read your site?
Send us the address. We'll check what an AI crawler actually sees when it visits.
