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A free checker for whether AI search engines can cite your site

Clarvia's Geo Checker is a free tool that lets website owners check if their site can be cited by AI search engines, helping them understand their visibility in AI-driven search results.

Background

- AI search engines (like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot) now answer queries by citing content from across the web, but their ability to correctly reference individual sites varies widely. - This free tool, **Geo Checker**, lets a website owner enter any URL to see whether those AI systems can actually "see" and cite the site when answering questions — and flags geographical blocks or technical misconfigurations that might be causing AI crawlers to miss it. - The problem it addresses: many sites unintentionally block AI crawlers via robots.txt, CDN geo-restrictions, or server rules. As AI-powered search grows, being uncitable means losing free referral traffic and visibility. - The creator, Clarvia, is a developer focused on SEO and AI-readiness tooling. This is a simple, self-contained diagnostic page, not a commercial product.

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