{"pageUrl":"https://promagen.com/how-to-audit-your-site-for-ai-visibility","lastModified":"2026-05-10","provenanceHash":"sha256:a52858bca9beb2d858a4d46f9df3779efbb449354f791348cd2cb31cac946fbe","provenanceNote":"Audit methodology references industry-standard technical-SEO practices and Promagen Sentinel's composite scoring weights defined in frontend/src/types/sentinel.ts.","claims":[{"id":"claim-fix-order-by-weight","statement":"Fixes should be applied in order of weighted impact on the composite Sentinel score: availability (40%), metadata (20%), schema (15%), regression burden (15%), orphan risk (10%). This maximises score gain per hour of work.","evidenceUrl":"https://promagen.com/sentinel/weekly","lastVerified":"2026-05-10","hash":"sha256:36cf2c532d713d4d6e9d85d0e9c57fa788101c11edf071817d3deda924f513c7"},{"id":"claim-robots-txt-audit-two-buckets","statement":"A complete robots.txt audit for AI visibility covers two buckets of vendor-documented strings: (a) log-visible HTTP crawler user agents — GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Applebot, Bingbot, CCBot, Googlebot; and (b) robots.txt usage-control tokens with no HTTP fetcher of their own — Google-Extended (Gemini Apps / Vertex AI Gemini training and grounding) and Applebot-Extended (Apple Intelligence usage of Applebot-crawled data). Both buckets are documented by their respective vendors; only bucket (a) appears in server access logs.","evidenceUrl":"https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-common-crawlers","lastVerified":"2026-05-10","hash":"sha256:cdaa480f830cbabcb6b6007208c364b6cfd4ef3638612d6dd309e52604e9ba5a"},{"id":"claim-weekly-cadence-default","statement":"Weekly is the appropriate default cadence for AI visibility auditing. Daily produces noise without proportionate signal; monthly misses regressions that surface mid-month. Sentinel runs the structural portions of the audit weekly.","evidenceUrl":"https://promagen.com/sentinel/weekly","lastVerified":"2026-05-10","hash":"sha256:f143494521ea6596b752b077dca0fed7c90487426104b30947be40f72f0ca3f1"}]}