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Technical Crawler Access for GEO
Generative systems cannot cite what they cannot fetch. Crawler access is table stakes—but allowing a bot is not the same as earning mentions.
By Aditya KumarRead blog ↗
Evidence-led resources connected to crawlers across GEO, AEO, and AI search measurement.
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Generative systems cannot cite what they cannot fetch. Crawler access is table stakes—but allowing a bot is not the same as earning mentions.
We tested n=4 AI crawlers against live robots.txt and public crawler-control files. All were allowed with HTTP 200—technical access only, not indexing or recommendation proof.
A first-party infrastructure change that unlocked AI crawler fetch access on mentionpop.com—with honest limits on what that proves.
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