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may 19, 2025

Bot Crawl 🍻

How OpenAI crawls your site.

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How OpenAI Crawls and Indexes Your Website (and Why It Matters)

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As AI-driven tools like ChatGPT become go-to sources for information, the objective becomes being seen, cited, and surfaced in large language model (LLM) outputs.

if OpenAI can’t see your content, it can’t cite or include it in responses. In the LLM era, clean structure, crawlability, and SSR are the new cornerstones of discoverability.

OpenAI operates multiple bots that each serve different purposes:

  • GPTBot – Crawls content for model training
  • OAI-SearchBot – Indexes content for real-time ChatGPT search
  • ChatGPT-User – Fetches content during on-demand browsing or plug-in activity

Here’s a quick checklist to prepare your site for AI visibility:

âś… Allow crawling. Make sure your robots.txt file allows access to OpenAI bots.

✅ Use server-side rendering (SSR). OpenAI’s bots don’t run JavaScript. Content must be present in the raw HTML.

âś… Structure your content clearly. Use schema markup (preferably JSON-LD) for blog posts, product pages, FAQs, and more.

âś… Control indexing with meta tags. Use to prevent unwanted pages from being indexed or cited.

âś… Monitor crawls. Check server logs and tools like curl or wget to confirm your content is visible to bots.

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