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What are the most common technical mistakes that prevent smaller websites from getting crawled and cited by Perplexity and other AI tools?

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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

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What are the most common technical mistakes that prevent smaller websites from getting crawled and cited by Perplexity and other AI tools?
4 real searches · 1 real-search pass
Perplexity crawler documentation PerplexityBot robots.txt user agent officialGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
OpenAI search crawler OAI-SearchBot robots.txt official documentationGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
Google Search Central JavaScript SEO crawling rendering robots sitemap canonical structured data documentationGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
Microsoft Bing webmaster guidelines IndexNow crawling robots.txt officialGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational

Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.

Query classes

Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

ChatGPT real searches (4)
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Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 4 of 4 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

ChatGPT4 real searches · gpt-6
Perplexity crawler documentation PerplexityBot robots.txt user agent official Google ↗
OpenAI search crawler OAI-SearchBot robots.txt official documentation Google ↗
Google Search Central JavaScript SEO crawling rendering robots sitemap canonical structured data documentation Google ↗
Microsoft Bing webmaster guidelines IndexNow crawling robots.txt official Google ↗

Queries

4 queries · click a column to sort
Query / typeSearchIntentQuery classRouting formatClusterFreq ↓Weight
Perplexity crawler documentation PerplexityBot robots.txt user agent official
OBSERVED
Google ↗
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—Other / navigational——1x
of 1
OpenAI search crawler OAI-SearchBot robots.txt official documentation
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Other / navigational——1x
of 1
Google Search Central JavaScript SEO crawling rendering robots sitemap canonical structured data documentation
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Other / navigational——1x
of 1
Microsoft Bing webmaster guidelines IndexNow crawling robots.txt official
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Other / navigational——1x
of 1