# AI Crawlability

> A practical, source-grounded guide to making your website visible and citable to AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

AI crawlability is configuring a website so AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and others) can reach, parse, and cite its content. Guidance here is source-grounded and avoids unverified citation guarantees.

## Tools

- [AI Crawlability Checker](https://aicrawlability.com/checker): Free per-bot check of robots.txt, headers, JavaScript rendering, llms.txt and sitemap, with specific fixes.

## Guide

- [AI Crawlability — The Complete Guide to Making Your Site Visible to AI Answer Engines](https://aicrawlability.com/ai-crawlability): How to make your site visible and citable to AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews: bots, robots.txt, llms.txt, JS and schema.

## Articles

- [What Is llms.txt? A Practical Guide (And Whether It Actually Helps AI Visibility)](https://aicrawlability.com/llms-txt): What llms.txt is, how to create one, how it differs from robots.txt, and the honest evidence on whether it improves AI visibility in ChatGPT and Perplexity.
- [How to Configure robots.txt for AI Crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot & More)](https://aicrawlability.com/robots-txt-ai-crawlers): A practical robots.txt guide for AI crawlers: which bots to allow, how to block training-only scrapers, example directives, common mistakes, and the honest limits.
- [How to Structure Content for AI Extraction (Featured Snippets, AI Overviews & PAA)](https://aicrawlability.com/content-structure-ai-extraction): How to structure pages so AI answer engines can extract and cite them: direct answers, question-led headings, scannable formatting, and FAQ and Article schema.