IndexHalo
MEASURED STUDY · 13 AUGUST 2026

AI crawler access:
seo and marketing tools

The vendors advising everyone else on AI visibility. 26 domains measured; 0 block at least one of the fifteen tracked AI crawlers.

0of 26 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 fifteen verdicts and the robots.txt rule behind them.

DomainAccessAllowedBlockedNot listed
ahrefs.com100%1500
backlinko.com100%1500
botify.com100%1500
brightedge.com100%1500
clearscope.io100%0015
conductor.com100%1500
contentkingapp.com100%0015
frase.io100%1500
lumar.io100%1500
majestic.com100%1500
marketmuse.com100%1500
moz.com100%1500
neilpatel.com100%1500
oncrawl.com100%1500
screamingfrog.co.uk100%1500
searchenginejournal.com100%1500
searchengineland.com100%1500
semrush.com100%1500
seranking.com100%1500
seroundtable.com100%1500
serpstat.com100%1500
similarweb.com100%1500
sistrix.com100%0015
spyfu.com100%1500
surferseo.com100%1500
yoast.com100%1500

Method and caveats are described on the full study page: one robots.txt fetch per domain, resolved against fifteen 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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