Can AI read your page?

GEO stands for generative engine optimization. A GEO audit checks whether AI assistants can reach your page, read it, understand what it is about, and act on it. It is the technical half of getting cited in AI answers, and separate from whether AI currently mentions your brand.

An SEO audit asks whether Google can rank the page. A GEO audit asks whether an AI crawler can use it. AI crawlers mostly do not run JavaScript, they read structured data first, they follow their own robots.txt rules, and browsing agents drive a page through its accessibility tree rather than its layout.

No, on purpose. GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot fetch the HTML and do not render it, so this fetches your page the same way. The word count you see is the text those crawlers receive. If your content is built in the browser, it shows up here as close to empty, which is what the crawler sees.

Usually bot protection refused our request. That is not proof that ChatGPT or Claude are blocked, since their crawlers sit on allow-lists that ours does not. The headline in the result names the other causes we meet, such as a timeout, a broken redirect, a 404 or a file that is not HTML. Whatever the cause, the audit reports no score rather than guessing one. The robots.txt rules it shows are still real, because those were read successfully.

It depends which. Training crawlers like GPTBot and CCBot feed model training, and blocking them is a legitimate choice. Search crawlers like OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot fetch pages to cite them in answers, so blocking those means you cannot be cited. On-demand fetchers like ChatGPT-User only run when a person asks the assistant to open your link, and OpenAI says robots.txt rules may not apply to them. Most sites that block everything never thought to separate them.

No. One URL, plus the site-wide robots.txt, llms.txt and sitemap. Results for a URL are cached for 24 hours. ContextBolt SEO runs a separate on-page audit for up to 50 of your pages at a time from inside Claude, Cursor or Codex. It covers classic on-page issues such as titles, descriptions, headings and thin content, not these AI crawler checks.