GEO guides # GEO guides for AI search 5 free guides to AI search: how to see which AI crawlers reach your site, how to count the visitors ChatGPT sends, and how to write pages answer engines quote. If a guide says something the checker does not check, it says so. [Add my website](/dashboard/new)[Or score one page free →](/tools/geo-score-checker) - 5 guides - 14 checks explained - 4 free tools, no account By [Iliass El Barhoumi](/about) · Published 4 August 2026 · Last updated 1 October 2026 ## Can AI find your pages? AI can find your pages only if its crawlers can reach them: these guides show which crawlers visit, how to verify them, and how much traffic the assistants send back. - [AI crawlers & trafficHow to track ChatGPT referral traffic in GA4ChatGPT visits appear in GA4 with the source chatgpt.com. How to filter for them, give AI assistants their own channel, and what GA4 still cannot see.3 min read · Updated 1 October 2026](/blog/track-chatgpt-referral-traffic-ga4) - [AI crawlers & trafficHow to track AI crawlers on your websiteAI crawlers never run your analytics tag. How to find GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot in server logs, and verify they are genuine.3 min read · Updated 1 October 2026](/blog/how-to-track-ai-crawlers) ## Will AI quote your pages? Answer engines quote pages whose sections answer their heading in the first sentence: these guides show how a passage gets picked, and how to write one. - [Getting citedWhat is generative engine optimization (GEO)?GEO is optimising a page to be quoted inside an AI answer rather than ranked as a link. What changes, what carries over from SEO, and what to do first.3 min read · Updated 1 October 2026](/blog/what-is-generative-engine-optimization) - [Getting citedHow to get cited by ChatGPTFour things decide whether ChatGPT can cite your page: OAI-SearchBot access, server-rendered HTML, a clear publisher, and an answer-first passage.4 min read · Updated 1 October 2026](/blog/how-to-get-cited-by-chatgpt) - [Getting citedAnswer-first writing: the highest-leverage GEO fixAnswer-first writing means each section answers its heading in the first sentence. Worth 13 of 100 points, more than schema, FAQ and llms.txt combined.3 min read · Updated 1 October 2026](/blog/answer-first-writing) ## Where to start Start with the reference for your question: the 5 guides answer two, and each has a reference to go with it. - [Can AI find my pages?The AI crawler directory covers 14 tokens and what blocking each one costs.Browse the crawlers](/crawlers) - [Will AI quote them?The scoring model explains all 14 checks and the points each is worth out of 100.Read the checks](/checks) - [Testing a pageThe free GEO score checker runs every check on any URL, and the 4 free tools need no account.Score a page](/tools/geo-score-checker) FAQ ## Frequently asked questions Where to begin, how to check your own site, and what the guides cost. - ### Which guide should I read first? If AI search is new to you, start with what generative engine optimization is. If you already publish and want to be cited, read answer-first writing: it is the change that moves a page’s score the most. - ### How do I know whether AI crawlers can reach my site? Run the free AI crawler checker on your domain. It reads your robots.txt the way each crawler does and flags any search crawler that is blocked, since a blocked search crawler means that engine cannot cite you at all. - ### Do the guides cost anything? No. Every guide and every free tool is open without an account. The paid plans are for tracking AI crawlers and AI traffic on your own website over time. --- Source: https://www.crawlradar.xyz/blog