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Can AI search quote your pages?

Enter your site and this check reads up to 200 of its pages to see whether AI search can use them: whether its crawlers are let in, whether your pages allow quoting, and whether each question your headings ask is answered straight away.

  • Which AI crawlers your robots.txt lets in, and what each one is for
  • Pages that tell search engines not to quote them
  • Pages with so little text in their HTML that AI crawlers may see nothing
  • Every question heading, with what to change in the answer under it

Free, with no card and no account. Your report gets its own private link that works for 90 days. How your details are used.

Why answers need to be quotable

ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Claude and Google’s AI Overviews build their answers from passages they find on the web, and they link to the pages those passages came from. The passages they can use are the ones that answer a question on their own, in the first sentence or two under a heading that asks it. A page can rank well and still never be quoted, because its answers start with an introduction, sit in a paragraph two hundred words long, or only appear once JavaScript has run.

What it checks

It starts with your robots.txt and works out, crawler by crawler, which of the AI companies’ crawlers it lets in. Those split into three kinds: search crawlers, which decide whether an answer can cite you; crawlers that fetch a page when a person asks about it; and training crawlers, which only gather text for training models, so blocking them is a choice that does not keep you out of answers.

Then it reads your pages, from your sitemaps first. Any page carrying nosnippet or max-snippet:0 is flagged, since Google applies those to AI Overviews and AI Mode as well as to its ordinary results, and so is any page with very little text in the HTML the server sends. Finally, every heading phrased as a question is checked against the first thing underneath it: a direct answer of a sentence or two is marked quotable, and anything else gets a specific fix, whether the answer is missing, buried behind an introduction, too long to quote or replaced by a list.

How it differs from tools built on paid data

Tools that pay for search data can match your pages to the questions people actually search for, and list the questions no page of yours answers. This check has no search data, so it works from the questions your own headings already ask. That still covers most of what decides whether a page can be quoted, and the report says plainly which part it cannot see.

Your report and your data

The check is free. It asks for your email address before it runs, and you only join the mailing list if you tick the box. Pages are read by EghosaBot, which obeys robots.txt and its Crawl-delay setting. Each report has its own private link, which works for 90 days and is then deleted along with everything the check gathered. The privacy policy explains the rest.

Frequently asked questions

Does blocking GPTBot keep my site out of ChatGPT answers?

No. GPTBot gathers text for training OpenAI’s models, while ChatGPT search uses a separate crawler, OAI-SearchBot. OpenAI says a site can block GPTBot and still appear in ChatGPT search, as long as OAI-SearchBot is allowed. The report shows each crawler separately for that reason.

How long should an answer under a question heading be?

Start with a direct answer of two or three sentences, roughly 40 to 60 words, then go into detail. A passage that answers the question on its own, without needing the paragraphs around it, is the easiest kind for AI search to quote.

Do I need special markup to appear in Google’s AI Overviews?

No. Google says there are no extra requirements, files or structured data needed to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode beyond what ordinary search needs. What it does honour is nosnippet and max-snippet, which can keep a page out of them, and this check flags both.

Does the check run JavaScript?

No. It reads the HTML your server sends, the way many AI crawlers do, so a page whose text only appears after JavaScript runs will show up as having very little text. If that page matters, render its content on the server.

Why does the report only check questions my headings already ask?

Knowing which questions people search for takes paid search data, which this free tool does not use. It checks the questions your pages already ask, which is most of what decides whether they can be quoted, and the report says so.

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