You're optimizing for AI search while quietly blocking the bots. Check, today.

You're optimizing for AI search while quietly blocking the bots. Check, today.
The 5-minute crawler pre-flight:
— Open robots.txt, search for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended
— Confirm none are Disallowed unless you mean it
— Check for a CDN/WAF rule silently 403-ing AI user agents
— Verify your key content isn't JS-rendered into invisibility
— Test: fetch your page as a bare user agent, see what survives
Half the "GEO isn't working" complaints are self-inflicted blocks. You can't get cited from inside a firewall. Fight me.