MEASURED STUDY · 11 NOVEMBER 2026

Which seo and marketing tools
block AI crawlers?

The vendors advising everyone else on AI visibility. 86 domains measured; 9 block at least one of the 30 tracked AI crawlers.

9of 86 seo and marketing tools block at least one AI crawler · median access 100%

The AI crawlers these sites block most

Amazonbot is blocked most often here, by 5 of 86 sites. What blocking each one means is in the AI crawler directory.

User-agentOperatorPurposeSites blocking
AmazonbotAmazonmodel training5 of 86
BytespiderByteDancemodel training5 of 86
CCBotCommon Crawltraining dataset5 of 86
OmgilibotWebz.iotraining dataset4 of 86
Applebot-ExtendedAppleApple Intelligence control3 of 86
cohere-aiCoheremodel training3 of 86
DiffbotDiffbotstructured-data extraction3 of 86
GPTBotOpenAImodel training3 of 86

Every domain in this category

Sorted by the share of tracked AI crawlers permitted, lowest first. Each report shows all 30 verdicts and the robots.txt rule behind them.

DomainAccessAllowedBlockedNot listed
lilyray.nyc57%17130
contentmarketinginstitute.com60%18120
brightlocal.com70%2190
webmasterworld.com77%2370
cmswire.com93%2820
searchenginejournal.com97%2910
sparktoro.com97%2910
w3techs.com97%0129
yoast.com97%2910
accuranker.com100%3000
advancedwebranking.com100%3000
ahrefs.com100%3000
aioseo.com100%3000
aleydasolis.com100%3000
alsoasked.com100%3000
animalz.co100%3000
answerthepublic.com100%3000
athenahq.ai100%3000
authoritylabs.com100%3000
backlinko.com100%3000
botify.com100%3000
brightedge.com100%3000
builtwith.com100%3000
buzzsumo.com100%3000
clearscope.io100%0030
conductor.com100%3000
contentkingapp.com100%0030
copyblogger.com100%3000
detailed.com100%3000
frase.io100%3000
goodie.ai100%3000
gotchseo.com100%3000
growandconvert.com100%3000
growthhackers.com100%3000
indexnow.org100%3000
ipullrank.com100%3000
jetoctopus.com100%3000
keywordtool.io100%3000
knowatoa.com100%3000
llmstxt.org100%0030
localfalcon.com100%3000
lumar.io100%3000
majestic.com100%3000
mangools.com100%3000
mariehaynes.com100%3000
marketingland.com100%3000
marketmuse.com100%3000
martech.org100%3000
moz.com100%3000
neilpatel.com100%3000
nightwatch.io100%3000
oncrawl.com100%3000
otterly.ai100%3000
peec.ai100%3000
problogger.com100%3000
rankmath.com100%3000
rankranger.com100%3000
rankscale.ai100%3000
robotstxt.org100%3000
schema.org100%3000
screamingfrog.co.uk100%3000
scrunchai.com100%3000
searchengineland.com100%3000
searchengineworld.com100%3000
searchmetrics.com100%0030
semji.com100%3000
semrush.com100%3000
seoclarity.net100%3000
seranking.com100%3000
seroundtable.com100%3000
serpstat.com100%3000
siegemedia.com100%3000
similarweb.com100%3000
sistrix.com100%0030
sitebulb.com100%3000
sitemaps.org100%0030
spyfu.com100%3000
surferseo.com100%3000
tryprofound.com100%3000
ubersuggest.com100%3000
wappalyzer.com100%3000
warriorforum.com100%3000
whitespark.ca100%3000
wincher.com100%3000
wordstream.com100%3000
yext.com100%3000

Method and caveats are described on the full study page: one robots.txt fetch per domain, resolved against 30 published AI user-agents, reported as the voluntary policy it is.

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