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AI Robots Checker guide for local AI visibility

AI Robots Checker helps local businesses review public website signals. Use this guide for reviewing robots.txt access for the listed crawler user agents. Findings are diagnostic estimates; a separate live query test is needed to report an AI mention or citation.

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What this tool checks

Review the signals this tool can actually observe, such as public crawl rules, website text, structured data, or business details. A clean result does not prove that any AI engine has read, trusted, or recommended the business.

The REAL Method is an editorial checklist: describe the business, verify evidence, answer customer questions, and link to useful sources. It is not an engine scoring formula.

Launch workflow

Start with one business, one city, and one service. Review the tool output against the live site and select one verified issue to fix. Only publish a change with permission and a way to check the result.

After a website change, recheck the same page. To assess AI mentions, use the same documented prompts and compare dated answers; changes cannot be attributed to one edit without stronger evidence.

How it connects to paid plans

The free tool is a starting point. The $79 Automated SEO plan covers one authorized WordPress site with published monthly work limits, daily critical monitoring, a weekly crawl, and a monthly report. Managed Growth starts with a separately quoted human-managed SEO scope. AI visibility remains supporting evidence, not a promised outcome.

Common questions

Which AI crawlers does the robots checker test for?

It checks robots.txt rules for listed user agents. These agents have different purposes and access paths; a robots result alone does not show whether a business can appear in an AI answer.

Why would a local business want AI crawlers to access the site?

Crawler access is useful to review, but blocking one user agent does not prove invisibility across an entire AI product. Check the provider's current crawler guidance and test actual answers separately.