Service · Technical AEO

Technical AEO. Make sure AI can reach and read you.

AI assistants can only quote what their crawlers can fetch and understand. We fix crawler access, rendering, indexing and structured data so ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google’s AI features can read your site.

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Crawler access · last 7 days
1 blocked
CrawlerPathStatusHits / 7 days
OAI-SearchBot/payroll/quebec/2001.2k
Googlebot/fr/paie-pme/2003.4k
Bingbot/pricing/200860
PerplexityBot/payroll/4030
Claude-SearchBot/faq/200410
robots.txtfix ready
# AI search crawlers
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/

In short

Technical AEO makes your website accessible to the crawlers and indexes behind AI answers. We check robots.txt and firewall rules for AI crawlers such as OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Bingbot and Googlebot, make key pages readable without JavaScript, confirm indexing in Google and Bing, and add schema that matches what is on the page.

Crawlers
OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Bingbot, Googlebot
Indexes
Google and Bing
Schema
Written and validated
Languages
EN and FR with hreflang

Why it matters

Make sure AI can reach and read you.

Many sites block AI crawlers by accident. A firewall rule, a security plugin or a robots.txt line written years ago can stop OAI-SearchBot or PerplexityBot at the door, and the business never finds out.

Other sites load their prices, FAQs or service details with JavaScript that many crawlers do not run. To an AI assistant, those pages look empty. Technical AEO finds and fixes these gaps first, because content and citations cannot help if the platforms cannot read the page.

What you get

Deliverables you can check.

01

AI crawler access review

robots.txt, firewall, CDN and security plugin rules checked for each AI and search crawler.

02

Rendering check

Your key pages tested with JavaScript off, so prices, services and FAQs are in the HTML.

03

Google and Bing indexing

Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools set up or cleaned up, sitemaps submitted, indexing gaps fixed.

04

Structured data

Organization or LocalBusiness, Service, FAQ and breadcrumb schema that matches the visible page.

05

Bilingual signals

hreflang for en-CA and fr-CA, language-specific URLs and French metadata.

06

llms.txt and sitemaps

A clear map of your most useful pages for AI tools, kept in sync with your sitemap.

How it works

The process, step by step.

  1. Step 1Crawl and test

    We crawl your site as each major bot and test key pages with JavaScript off.

  2. Step 2Fix access

    robots.txt, firewall and CDN rules are corrected so the right crawlers get in.

  3. Step 3Index and mark up

    Indexing issues are fixed in Google and Bing, and schema is added and validated.

  4. Step 4Monitor

    We re-check access and indexing every month and after site changes.

FAQ

Questions about technical aeo.

Still have a question? Call 647-917-8670 or email info@answerenginecanada.ca.

Which AI crawlers should we allow?

For visibility in AI answers, most businesses should allow OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT search), PerplexityBot, Bingbot (which feeds Copilot) and Googlebot. Training crawlers are a separate decision, and we explain the trade-offs before changing anything.

Does schema guarantee we will be cited?

No. Schema helps platforms understand your business and match facts to the page, but it only works when it matches visible content and the rest of the site is accessible and useful.

Will technical changes affect our Google rankings?

The same fixes usually help traditional SEO too: faster, crawlable, well-structured pages. We avoid changes that put existing rankings at risk and document everything we touch.

What is llms.txt?

It is a simple text file that points AI tools to your most useful pages. It is not a ranking factor and not every platform reads it, so we treat it as a low-effort extra, not a replacement for crawlable pages.

Other services

Works best together.

AI Visibility Audit

Where you stand, question by question.

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Answer-ready content

Pages built to be quoted.

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Citations & accuracy

Be named by the sources AI trusts.

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Monthly AEO scorecard

One page, every month, in plain language.

See the service

French-language AEO

Bilingual by design.

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Find out what AI says about you.

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