Question 1

What does AI Crawler Analytics actually show me?

Accepted Answer

Every AI crawler hit on your site — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and more — classified as verified, spoof, unverifiable, or pending, so you can see which answer engines are really reading your content instead of guessing from a user-agent string.

Question 2

What is an AI crawler?

Accepted Answer

A bot operated by an AI company that fetches web pages so its models and answer engines can use them — either to train on, or to retrieve a page while answering someone’s question right now. It is the AI-era equivalent of Googlebot: if it cannot reach and read your page, that engine has nothing of yours to cite.

Question 3

Should I allow AI crawlers?

Accepted Answer

For most businesses, yes — if you want to appear in AI answers, the engines have to be able to read you, and blocking them is the most reliable way to become invisible in AI search. The nuance worth understanding is that "allow" is not one switch: you can permit the crawlers that fetch pages to answer live questions while restricting the ones that harvest content for training. SearchChamp shows which category each crawler falls into so the decision is deliberate rather than accidental.

Question 4

How do you tell a real AI crawler from a spoofed one?

Accepted Answer

Every crawler hit is matched against the real request IP and checked against the crawler owner's published address ranges. A bot name alone never earns a verified badge — a spoofed user-agent that doesn't come from the real IP range shows as spoof, not verified.

Question 5

Which AI crawlers does it track?

Accepted Answer

GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and more — the list covers the crawlers that feed today’s major answer engines, verified against each vendor’s published IP ranges.

Question 6

What is the difference between GPTBot and ChatGPT-User?

Accepted Answer

GPTBot crawls the web broadly to gather content for training. ChatGPT-User is the fetch that happens when someone asks ChatGPT a question and it retrieves your page to answer it right then. They are separate user-agents you can allow or block independently — and the distinction matters, because blocking the second is what removes you from live answers, while blocking the first only affects training. SearchChamp reports them separately rather than collapsing both into "OpenAI".

Question 7

What does GPTBot actually do on my site?

Accepted Answer

It requests pages the way any crawler does, respecting robots.txt, and takes what it can read. What it cannot do is execute your JavaScript reliably — so content that only appears after client-side rendering may be invisible to it even when the page loads perfectly in a browser. That gap between "renders for humans" and "readable by a crawler" is one of the most common reasons a page never gets cited.

Question 8

Can I fix a blocked crawler directly from the dashboard?

Accepted Answer

Yes — each blocked answer-engine gets mapped to a concrete fix, and for WordPress you can apply the robots-policy change in one click, then re-scan to confirm the crawler is now allowed.

Question 9

How do I block GPTBot if I do not want it crawling my site?

Accepted Answer

Add a disallow rule for the specific user-agent in robots.txt — blocking GPTBot does not block the others, so each engine is an independent decision. SearchChamp shows the current state per crawler and will apply the change on WordPress in one click, then re-verify that the block actually took effect. Worth knowing before you do it: blocking a training crawler and blocking the fetcher that retrieves pages to answer a live question are different choices with different consequences.

Question 10

Do I need to install anything to see crawler activity?

Accepted Answer

No agent or tracking script is installed on your site. Verification works from the request side — the crawler visit is checked against the IP ranges each provider publishes — so there is nothing added to your pages and no performance cost.

Question 11

Is AI Crawler Analytics included in every plan?

Accepted Answer

Yes — verified crawler tracking is part of the core platform on Solo ($79/month), Business ($179/month), and Agency ($399/month), not a paid add-on. Plans differ in how many sites you can monitor and how much crawl history is retained. Paying yearly saves 25%.

Question 12

Does verifying crawlers cost extra credits?

Accepted Answer

No. Crawler verification runs continuously as part of monitoring a connected site rather than being billed per check, so you are not choosing between watching closely and controlling spend.

Question 13

Can I try it before I pay?

Accepted Answer

Yes — every plan starts with a 7-day free trial, credit card required, cancel anytime. Connect a site and you will see real crawler activity within the trial rather than a sample dataset. Paid plans also carry a 14-day money-back guarantee.

Page	Clicks	Pos	Status
/	412	#1.8	Improving
/blog/ai-search-guide	286	#3.2	Improving
/pricing	204	#2.4	Healthy
/features/visibility	171	#4.1	Healthy

See which AI crawlers read your site — and prove which ones are real

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Every AI crawler, grouped by what it actually does

Tell training crawlers apart from search and user fetches

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