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GEO Glossary

Crawlability

Whether bots can fetch, read and index your pages. If AI can't crawl you, it can't cite you.

Crawlability is whether crawlers can access and read your pages. For AI it's the foundation: an engine can only recommend content its crawlers were able to fetch. Common blockers are robots.txt rules, non-200 status codes, noindex directives, and content that only appears after JavaScript runs — which most AI crawlers don't execute.

Crawlability matters for both SEO and GEO, and the same fixes help both.

Scanning the signal…