Does GEO_OAI_SEARCHBOT_ALLOWED affect my score?

Yes. It is an importance 8 rule at SPECIFICATION confidence, so a failure costs 8 × 1 points of impact in the AI Visibility category before that category is normalised to 100.

What does SPECIFICATION confidence mean?

A standard says so: HTML, WCAG, an RFC or Google's own documentation. Confidence is a declared tier rather than a per-rule number, so every rule backed by the same class of evidence carries the same weight - which is what makes the score reproducible instead of hand-tuned.

How do I check GEO_OAI_SEARCHBOT_ALLOWED on my own site?

Paste your URL into the box above and it runs only this rule, usually in a couple of seconds. It is also included in the AI Visibility checker and in a full scan.

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GEO_OAI_SEARCHBOT_ALLOWED

If robots.txt disallows OAI-SearchBot, the page cannot appear in ChatGPT's search results. This is a separate token from GPTBot, which controls training-data collection.

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Importance: 8 / 10; How much this matters relative to other rules.
Confidence: SPECIFICATION; A standard says so: HTML, WCAG, an RFC or Google's own documentation.
Severity: error; How the finding is presented when it fails.
Scoring: Counts; A failure costs points in its category.

Impact is importance multiplied by the confidence tier’s weight — SPECIFICATION 1.0, RESEARCH 0.7, EMERGING 0.3, EXPERIMENTAL 0.1. Two rules backed by the same class of evidence therefore always carry the same weight, which is what makes the score reproducible rather than hand-tuned.

Questions about this rule

Does GEO_OAI_SEARCHBOT_ALLOWED affect my score?: Yes. It is an importance 8 rule at SPECIFICATION confidence, so a failure costs 8 × 1 points of impact in the AI Visibility category before that category is normalised to 100.
What does SPECIFICATION confidence mean?: A standard says so: HTML, WCAG, an RFC or Google's own documentation. Confidence is a declared tier rather than a per-rule number, so every rule backed by the same class of evidence carries the same weight - which is what makes the score reproducible instead of hand-tuned.
How do I check GEO_OAI_SEARCHBOT_ALLOWED on my own site?: Paste your URL into the box above and it runs only this rule, usually in a couple of seconds. It is also included in the AI Visibility checker and in a full scan.

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