Overview
Make sure every crawler that matters - including AI bots - can discover and fetch your important pages efficiently.
Business problem
Crawl budget is wasted on low-value URLs, or AI crawlers are blocked, so important pages are under-fetched.
Decision supported
How to open access and steer crawl budget to what matters.
Inputs & outputs
Inputs
- Server logs
- robots.txt
- XML sitemaps
- Crawl stats
Outputs
- Crawler access matrix
- Crawl-budget steering plan
Step-by-step process
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1
Map access
List which crawlers can reach what, including GPTBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended.
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2
Read logs
See where crawl budget actually goes.
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3
Steer
Free budget from low-value URLs and point it at money pages.
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4
Open selectively
Allow the AI crawlers whose citations you want.
Maturity model
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L1
Blind
No log or access visibility.
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L2
Mapped
Crawler access documented.
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L3
Steered
Crawl budget directed deliberately.
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L4
Optimised
Access and budget tuned per crawler.
KPIs
- AI crawler access coverage
- Crawl budget on money pages
- Wasted-crawl %
Common mistakes
- Blocking AI crawlers by default
- Letting infinite URL spaces burn budget
- Sitemaps full of noindex URLs
SearchScore insight
Recommended next steps
Where this fits - and what's next
The SearchScore path from a problem you feel to visibility you can measure.