Confirm the AI search crawlers can actually fetch you, in the logs
Look for the crawlers that decide citations — OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Applebot — not GPTBot or ClaudeBot, which gather training data and say nothing about whether an answer can quote you. Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default now, so a site can be invisible without anyone choosing it.
Step 1.3.3.4
Time: 20m
Done when
Count the requests from OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot and PerplexityBot in the server log that returned 2xx. All three must appear, fetching pages rather than only robots.txt. GPTBot and ClaudeBot do not count: they gather training data, not citations. (Proof: a count.)