GEO Readiness · May 7, 2026
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3 pass · 0 partial · 12 fail across 15 GEO readiness checks. Top failures are highlighted below — fix these first.
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AI crawler access
0/50 pts7 issuesWhether AI search engines can actually reach your site — the foundation for everything else.
robots.txt allows OAI-SearchBot. However, your CDN/server returned an error to this bot's User-Agent: request failed.
How to fix: In robots.txt, remove any Disallow rule under "User-agent: OAI-SearchBot". Without it, your pages cannot appear in ChatGPT Search results.
robots.txt allows ChatGPT-User. However, your CDN/server returned an error to this bot's User-Agent: request failed.
How to fix: Allow ChatGPT-User in robots.txt. This is the bot that fetches your page in real-time when ChatGPT answers a user's question — blocking it removes you from live citations.
robots.txt allows PerplexityBot. However, your CDN/server returned an error to this bot's User-Agent: request failed.
How to fix: Allow PerplexityBot in robots.txt. Perplexity is one of the fastest-growing AI search engines — blocking it removes you from those results entirely.
robots.txt allows Google-Extended. However, your CDN/server returned an error to this bot's User-Agent: request failed.
How to fix: Allow Google-Extended in robots.txt. Disallowing it pulls your content out of Google AI Overviews and Gemini's training/grounding signals.
robots.txt allows GPTBot. However, your CDN/server returned an error to this bot's User-Agent: request failed.
How to fix: Allow GPTBot in robots.txt. Blocking GPTBot keeps your content out of OpenAI's training corpus, which weakens future ChatGPT awareness of your brand.
robots.txt allows ClaudeBot. However, your CDN/server returned an error to this bot's User-Agent: request failed.
How to fix: Allow ClaudeBot in robots.txt. Anthropic honours robots.txt strictly — blocking it removes your content from Claude's knowledge base.
Every retrieval bot UA is being blocked at the edge — typically a CDN-level rule (Cloudflare's "Block AI Bots" managed rule, or a custom WAF policy) overrides whatever your robots.txt says.
How to fix: Check your CDN security settings. On Cloudflare, look for the "Block AI Bots" managed rule or a Bot Fight Mode setting and disable them — or add explicit allow rules for the bot UAs.
Content accessibility
7/15 pts1 issueWhether your content is reachable, public, and visible without JavaScript.
Only 0 characters of visible text in the initial HTML (about 0 words). AI crawlers will read this as a near-empty page.
How to fix: Add substantive content to the initial HTML — at minimum a clear value prop, key offerings, and supporting copy. SPAs and JS-rendered pages must be pre-rendered for AI search.
Structured data (JSON-LD)
0/15 pts3 issuesSchema.org markup that helps AI engines identify your brand and cite your content.
No JSON-LD structured data found on the homepage.
How to fix: Add at least one <script type="application/ld+json"> block. Start with an Organization schema (name, url, logo, sameAs) — it's the foundation every AI search engine uses to identify your brand.
No entity schema (Organization, WebSite, LocalBusiness, etc.) found. AI engines need this to attribute content to your brand.
How to fix: Add an Organization schema with at least name, url, logo, and a sameAs array linking to your verified social profiles. This is the single most important schema for AI brand recognition.
No JSON-LD structured data on the homepage, so no content-type schema either.
How to fix: Add JSON-LD structured data to your homepage. Start with FAQPage — it's the schema AI engines cite most often.
Discoverability files
10/10 pts/llms.txt and /sitemap.xml — the files AI crawlers look for first.
On-page basics
0/10 pts1 issueTitle, meta description, single H1, complete Open Graph — fundamentals AI engines lean on.
Issues found: missing <title>; missing meta description; no <h1>; missing Open Graph: og:title, og:description, og:image.
How to fix: Fix the items listed above. These are the same signals Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT Search use to generate snippets — getting them right makes you eligible for richer citations.
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