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SearchSeal is Live

SearchSeal is privacy-friendly website analytics with AI visibility built in: visitors, goals, revenue, and AI referrals, plus separate crawler evidence.

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Analytics, AI referrals, crawler access, and practical implementation notes

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Google Preferred Sources: What It Changes for SEO

Google Preferred Sources lets readers prioritize a publication in Top Stories. Learn what it changes, what it does not, and how to measure it honestly.

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How to Know if ChatGPT Crawled Your Website

Check whether ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity crawled your website using CDN or server request evidence.

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Why ChatGPT and Claude Don't Appear in Google Analytics

Learn why ChatGPT and Claude crawler requests are missing from GA4 and where to measure them instead.

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Is Cloudflare Blocking ChatGPT and Claude?

Check whether Cloudflare blocks ChatGPT or Claude, understand the default changes, and verify actual crawler outcomes.

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How to Track Traffic From ChatGPT

Track human visits from ChatGPT using campaign values and referrers, then connect them to goals and revenue.

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How to Know if ChatGPT Cites Your Website

Use a defined prompt sample to check ChatGPT citations without confusing citations, mentions, referrals, and crawls.

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Why ChatGPT and Claude Get 403 or 429 Errors

Diagnose 403 and 429 responses for ChatGPT and Claude crawlers across robots.txt, CDN, WAF, and application rules.

DeveloperAugust 4, 20267 min read

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How to Track ChatGPT Crawlers on Vercel

Track ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI crawlers using Vercel Firewall events, AI bot rules, and request logs.

DeveloperAugust 4, 20266 min read

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How to Track ChatGPT Crawlers on WordPress

Find ChatGPT and Claude crawler requests to WordPress using CDN, host, or web-server access logs.

DeveloperAugust 4, 20266 min read

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How to Track ChatGPT Crawlers in AWS CloudFront

Use CloudFront request logs to find ChatGPT and Claude crawler paths, user agents, and HTTP outcomes.

DeveloperAugust 4, 20267 min read

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How to Track ChatGPT Crawlers in nginx Logs

Configure nginx access logs to record ChatGPT and Claude crawler paths, user agents, times, and HTTP statuses.

DeveloperAugust 4, 20267 min read

AI crawler user agents: a developer reference

A developer reference for AI crawler user agents, robots.txt tokens, published IP ranges, purposes, and verification methods.

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