Monitoring How Often AI Bots Visit Your Site
Track crawl patterns of AI bots like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot to ensure your content is being indexed.
Overview
AI crawl frequency measures how often AI system crawlers visit your site. Regular crawling indicates your content is being indexed and updated in AI knowledge bases.
Why It Matters
If AI bots aren't crawling your site regularly, your latest content won't appear in AI responses. Monitoring crawl frequency ensures your AI visibility pipeline is working.
How to Measure
Analyze server logs for AI bot user agents
Track crawl frequency by bot type
Monitor which pages are being crawled
Compare crawl patterns over time
Benchmarks
High frequency: Daily crawls of key pages
Good frequency: Weekly crawls
Low frequency: Monthly or less
Not crawled: No AI bot activity
Improvement Strategies
Ensure robots.txt allows AI crawlers
Improve site speed for crawler efficiency
Update content regularly to attract crawls
Submit sitemap and build internal linking
Recommended Tools
Server log analysis tools
Google Search Console (for Google-Extended)
Custom log parsing scripts
Web analytics with bot filtering
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