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By Raphaël Aubry, founder of Howseen AI · Updated
Why these five checks
AI assistants can only recommend you if their crawlers can read your site, if they find clear facts about you, and if the pages they search mention you. Each tool checks one of those links. Two guides go deeper: what llms.txt does, and does not do, and how Google picks the pages its AI Overviews cite.
“OAI-SearchBot is used to surface websites in search results in ChatGPT’s search features.”
OpenAI, Overview of OpenAI crawlers
FAQ
What people ask before using the free tools: what they cost, where to start, and how they differ from the full Howseen report.
Are these tools really free?+
Yes. Every tool runs without signup or card. Some tools ask an AI assistant live, so each one has a small daily limit per visitor to keep it free for everyone.
Which tool should I start with?+
Start with the AI visibility checker to see if AI names your brand, then run the AI crawler checker to make sure AI bots can read your site. New to the topic? Read GEO vs SEO first.
How is this different from Howseen?+
The tools give a one-time snapshot. Howseen tracks your buyer questions on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode every 3 days, with competitors, sources and an action plan. Want it run for you? See our GEO services.
Sources
The official documentation this tool follows, from the companies that run the AI crawlers and the standards it checks against.
- OpenAI, Overview of OpenAI crawlers
- Google Search Central, Introduction to robots.txt
- llmstxt.org, The /llms.txt file
- Google Search Central, Introduction to structured data
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