# Free GEO Checker: Can AI Assistants Cite Your Page?

> Free GEO checker. See whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google can fetch and cite your page, based on robots.txt, page content, structured data and llms.txt.

Canonical: https://shipcircle.dev/tools/geo-checker

Free, no signup. Use it in the browser at [GEO / AI Citation Checker](https://shipcircle.dev/tools/geo-checker).

## How the GEO / AI Citation Checker works

1. We fetch the page, its robots.txt and its llms.txt.
2. We test the page against 12 AI crawlers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google, Apple and Common Crawl, and run 10 readiness checks.
3. You get a 0 to 100 score, a per-bot allow or block table and what to fix.

## Frequently asked questions

### Does an allowed bot mean I will be cited?

No. Allowing a bot only gives it permission. Whether it fetches your page and cites it also depends on your server or CDN letting it through, and on how good the content is.

### Will blocking GPTBot hurt my search rankings?

No. GPTBot is a training crawler, and blocking it does not affect Google Search or ChatGPT search. Googlebot and OAI-SearchBot are the bots that matter for search and citations.

### Does a high score mean ChatGPT or Claude will cite my page?

No. The score shows whether AI systems can reach and read the page. It does not check whether any assistant has fetched or quoted it.

### Is llms.txt required?

No. It is an optional, proposed standard. The check is worth passing because it costs little, but no page loses citations for lacking one.

### Is it free?

Yes. It is free and needs no signup, with a limit of 6 checks per minute per visitor.

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