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Getting started
  • How do I add my brand's domain?
  • What does the onboarding flow actually do?
  • How do I invite team members?
  • What's the difference between Organisation, Workspace, and Brand?
  • How do I switch between organisations?
AI Visibility & Citations
  • What is AI visibility?
  • Which AI engines does WriteWorks track?
  • How often does WriteWorks scan?
  • What does Share of Voice mean?
  • How are citations attributed to my brand?
  • Why aren't my prompts showing data yet?
Analytics
  • How do I read the AI Visibility dashboard?
  • What's the difference between Bot Visits and Human Visits in AI Crawlers?
  • How do I filter analytics by region, platform, or topic?
  • What is Prompt Volume analysis?
Metrics glossary
  • What is Visibility?
  • What is Share of Voice?
  • What is Average Position?
  • What is Citation Share?
  • What is Sentiment?
  • What is a Mention?
  • What is Rank and rank change?
  • What is a Query fan-out?
  • What does the up or down % next to a metric mean?
  • What are Bot visits?
  • What are AI citations and AI indexing?
  • What are Human visits (AI referrals)?
  • What are Citations and cited domains?
  • What is Prompt volume?
  • What are Search volume, Keyword difficulty and CPC?
  • What are Clicks, Impressions, CTR and Average position?
  • What is Topic authority?
Content creation
  • How do I generate a new piece of content?
  • What are automations?
  • How do I refresh / optimise an existing page?
  • How do I find new content opportunities?
  • How does keyword research work? (Ahrefs / Semrush)
  • What are Skills?
Brand & competitors
  • How do I add or remove competitors?
  • How does WriteWorks discover competitors?
  • How is competitor visibility calculated?
Billing & plans
  • How do I upgrade my plan?
  • What are the plan limits?
  • What are AI credits?
  • How do I cancel my subscription?
Account & team
  • How do I change my email address?
  • How do I reset my password?
  • How do I manage team roles and permissions?
Troubleshooting
  • Brand analysis failed — what now?
  • My scan keeps timing out.
  • I'm not seeing any data on my dashboards.
  • How do I report a bug or request a feature?
GEO & AEO fundamentals
  • What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?
  • What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?
  • GEO vs SEO: generative engine optimization vs traditional search
  • A practical guide to generative engine optimization
  • AEO vs SEO: answer engine optimization vs traditional search
  • SEO vs GEO vs AEO: how the three fit together
  • AEO marketing: what answer engine optimization means for marketers
  • What is LLM SEO?
  • What is AI search engine optimization?
AI visibility & monitoring
  • AI search visibility explained
  • AI visibility tools: what they do and how to choose one
  • AI brand visibility: how AI engines describe your brand
  • How to improve brand visibility in AI answer engines
  • AI brand monitoring: tracking your brand in AI results
  • How AI visibility tracking works
  • AI search visibility metrics and KPIs
  • The best AI visibility tools for B2B companies
  • How to measure share of voice in AI search
  • What is AI strategic visibility?
  • Searchmetrics Visibility: what it measured and what replaced it
AI SEO & content
  • What is AI SEO?
  • AI SEO tools: what they do and which tasks they actually help with
  • AI content optimization: rewriting pages for humans and engines
  • AI keyword research: how to use AI for keyword research properly
  • AI SEO services: what they include and what to ask for
  • AI content marketing: what changes and what does not
  • AI SEO agencies and companies: how to choose one
  • AI search optimization tools: the categories and what each is for
  • AI content strategy: planning for a search landscape with fewer clicks
  • AI SEO statistics: what the data says about AI's impact on search
  • AI content marketing tools: choosing by workflow, not features
Ranking in AI answers
  • How to rank in ChatGPT
  • How to get cited by AI search engines
  • How to rank in Google AI Overviews
  • How to get mentioned and recommended by ChatGPT
  • Why your brand doesn't show up in ChatGPT
  • How Google AI Overviews affect SEO
  • How to get cited by Perplexity AI
Tools & comparisons
  • Generative engine optimization tools: what to look for
  • Answer engine optimization tools: what the category covers
  • ChatGPT SEO tools and trackers
  • LLM SEO tools and rank trackers
  • Profound alternatives: how to evaluate the options
  • Perplexity SEO tools and trackers
  • Peec AI alternatives and how to evaluate pricing
  • Generative engine optimization services: what you are buying
  • Profound vs Peec AI: how to compare them for GEO and AEO
  • Generative engine optimization agencies: how to choose one
  • Answer engine optimization services: scope and deliverables
  • AirOps alternatives: content workflow versus AI visibility
  • Answer engine optimization agencies: evaluation checklist
AI crawlers
  • What is GPTBot?
  • AI web crawlers explained
  • GPTBot and robots.txt: allowing or blocking OpenAI's crawlers
  1. Help
  2. AI crawlers
Help · AI crawlers

AI crawlers

GPTBot and the other bots that read your site for AI answers.

3 articles
  • What is GPTBot?

    GPTBot is OpenAI's crawler for collecting training data. It is not the crawler that fetches pages for ChatGPT's search answers — that distinction matters a great deal.

  • AI web crawlers explained

    The bots reading your site for AI engines — who operates them, how training crawlers differ from retrieval crawlers, and what to allow.

  • GPTBot and robots.txt: allowing or blocking OpenAI's crawlers

    How to write robots.txt rules for OpenAI's crawlers, the configurations that make sense, and why blocking everything is usually accidental.

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  • Analytics
  • Metrics glossary
  • Content creation
  • Brand & competitors
  • Billing & plans
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  • Troubleshooting
  • GEO & AEO fundamentals
  • AI visibility & monitoring
  • AI SEO & content
  • Ranking in AI answers
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