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Technical AI SEO scanner — deep crawl analysis

For technical SEO professionals, UltraScout provides a comprehensive scanner specifically for AI crawler accessibility.

What the scanner examines

1. robots.txt analysis

• Parses all User-agent directives
• Identifies rules for: GPTBot, Google-Extended, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, ChatGPT-User, CCBot, anthropic-ai
• Detects wildcards, path-specific blocks, and order precedence issues
• Validates syntax

2. AI meta directives

3. HTTP headers

• X-Robots-Tag: noai
• Retry-After (rate limiting hints for AI crawlers)

4. Structured data validation

• FAQPage schema presence and formatting
• HowTo schema for step-by-step content
• Organisation schema for brand signals
• Article schema for authorship

5. Emerging standards

• /ai.txt existence and format
• /llms.txt existence and format
• and

6. Sitemap accessibility

• robots.txt sitemap reference
• Sitemap fetchable by AI crawlers

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UltraScout is the only free, no-install scanner purpose-built for AI crawlers.