IndexHalo
MEASURED STUDY · 21 SEPTEMBER 2026

AI crawler access:
seo and marketing tools

The vendors advising everyone else on AI visibility. 25 domains measured; 2 block at least one of the 28 tracked AI crawlers.

2of 25 seo and marketing tools block at least one AI crawler · median access 100%

Every domain in this category

Sorted by the share of tracked AI crawlers permitted, lowest first. Each report shows all 28 verdicts and the robots.txt rule behind them.

DomainAccessAllowedBlockedNot listed
searchenginejournal.com96%2710
yoast.com96%2710
ahrefs.com100%2800
backlinko.com100%2800
botify.com100%2800
brightedge.com100%2800
clearscope.io100%0028
conductor.com100%2800
contentkingapp.com100%0028
frase.io100%2800
lumar.io100%2800
majestic.com100%2800
marketmuse.com100%2800
moz.com100%2800
neilpatel.com100%2800
oncrawl.com100%2800
screamingfrog.co.uk100%2800
semrush.com100%2800
seranking.com100%2800
seroundtable.com100%2800
serpstat.com100%2800
similarweb.com100%2800
sistrix.com100%0028
spyfu.com100%2800
surferseo.com100%2800

Method and caveats are described on the full study page: one robots.txt fetch per domain, resolved against 28 published AI user-agents, reported as the voluntary policy it is. Check any site yourself with the free crawler access checker.

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