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New tool checks website visibility for AI search engines

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A new open-source tool called GEO & SEO Readiness MCP — Lite has been released to help website owners ensure their content is discoverable by AI search engines like ChatGPT Search and Perplexity. The tool performs five key checks, including verifying robots.txt configurations, CDN bot management settings, canonical tag accuracy, structured data implementation, and the presence of functional sitemaps and llms.txt files. Developed by the author of the article, this tool aims to identify technical issues that might prevent a site from being cited by AI search crawlers, even if it ranks well on traditional search engines. AI

IMPACT Helps website owners ensure their content is discoverable by AI search engines, potentially increasing citation rates.

RANK_REASON Release of a new open-source tool for website SEO and AI discoverability.

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New tool checks website visibility for AI search engines

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Dejun (Alice) Chen ·

    Is your site invisible to ChatGPT Search? Five checks you can run in a minute

    <p>A site can rank well on Google and still never be cited by ChatGPT Search, Perplexity or Claude. When I audit sites for this, the cause is usually not content quality. It is one of a handful of technical mistakes that take minutes to fix once you see them.</p> <p>Here are the …

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