What is the difference between an AI Training bot and an AI Search bot?

AI Training bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended) ingest your content into future model weights — this is your Stock signal, representing long-term brand knowledge in AI systems. AI Search bots (OAI-SearchBot, Perplexitybot, Grok) retrieve your content for real-time answers being served to users right now — this is your Flow signal, representing current citation revenue.

Does this work on WordPress, Shopify, and other platforms?

Yes. The tracker is a single HTML image tag. It requires no JavaScript, no plugin, and no server access. Paste it before on any platform: WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, Framer, Ghost, Next.js, or raw HTML.

What is revisit tracking and why does it matter?

Revisit tracking records when the same AI bot returns to the same page within a 30-day window and measures days elapsed between visits. If GPTBot returns to your blog post 11 days after you implemented schema markup, that is measurable proof that your AEO change triggered a re-crawl. No other tool surfaces this as a primary metric.

How long does it take to see data after installing?

AI crawlers visit on their own schedule. Most customers see their first AI bot detection within 1-7 days of installing the embed. Active sites with published content and schema markup tend to see GPTBot or Perplexitybot within 48 hours.

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You Cannot Optimize
What You Cannot See.

Every analytics tool you're currently using was built to filter AI bots out. AI Bot Tracker is the first tool built specifically to let them in — classified by intent, tracked for recency, and verified against your last optimization.

One line of HTML. Works on every platform. Starts at $29/mo at launch.

Free during beta. We'll be in touch when you're approved.

60+ named bots detected 7 dashboard tabs 1 line of HTML 0 JS required

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The Problem

You Are Optimizing Blind.
Every Tool You Have Was Built That Way Deliberately.

Google Search Console shows you everything about Googlebot. Crawl frequency, pages indexed, last visit. You have complete visibility into the crawler that powers traditional search.

AEO has none of that. You implement schema markup, restructure content, publish a case study — and then wait. You run a manual ChatGPT query and hope your brand surfaces. There is no live crawl signal, no revisit confirmation, no proof that any of it registered.

The tools you're already paying for — GA4, Plausible, Fathom, Cloudflare — were explicitly built to filter AI bots out. GPTBot visits your site. It doesn't appear in any of them. You are flying blind on the channel that is replacing the one you optimized for.

Know Your Stock vs. Your Flow

The distinction between Training crawlers and Search crawlers is the most consequential signal in AEO. Identify which you're getting before deciding whether to allow, restrict, or optimize for each one.

Stock Signal

AI Training Crawlers

Ingesting your content into future model weights. This is the crawl that determines what GPT-5, Claude 4, and Gemini Ultra will know about you a year from now.

GPTBot ClaudeBot Google-Extended Anthropic-AI Mistral AI Cohere Common Crawl Diffbot AI DeepSeek Meta AI Allen Institute AI2 Internet Archive

Flow Signal

AI Search Crawlers

Retrieving your content for real-time answers being served to users right now. This is the crawl connected to live citations and current referral traffic.

OAI-SearchBot ChatGPT-User Perplexitybot Grok / xAI Brave Search You.com Timpi

AI Assistant crawlers (AmazonBot/Alexa, AppleBot-Extended) form a third category — indexing your content for voice responses and personal AI agents acting on behalf of high-intent users.

The AEO Pulse — Revisit Tracking

AI citation recency is a measurable signal. As you track revisit frequency per bot, you'll see which models have gone stale on your content — and exactly when to push a content update to trigger a re-crawl.

days to GPTBot revisit after schema implementation

day window for revisit detection per page

60s

dedup window — no log inflation from multi-request crawls

If a model hasn't revisited a page in 14 days, your brand is going stale in AI answers. Revisit tracking shows you the exact recency of each AI system's knowledge of your content — per page, per bot, per day. No other tool surfaces this as a primary signal.

Hardened Endpoint Security

Prompt injection is not limited to chatbot interfaces. Adversarial bots embed instructions in User-Agent strings targeting tracking endpoints — skewing your data before it's stored. The endpoint itself is the attack surface.

15-pattern injection detection

Regex patterns cover role manipulation, system prompt extraction, jailbreak strings, SQL injection, and encoded payload bypasses.

Silent rejection

Malicious requests receive the tracking pixel anyway — the attacking bot detects nothing — but zero data is logged. Your analytics stay clean.

Rate limiting

200 requests per hour per IP. Prevents analytics flooding from bad actors targeting your embed endpoint at scale.

Zero-cost geo via Vercel headers

Country and city data from native infrastructure headers. No external geo API, zero latency overhead, zero added cost at scale.

How We Compare

This fills the gap every tool in your stack deliberately ignores. Cloudflare blocks bots. Semrush tracks keywords. GA4 filters bots out. None of them were built to answer the question that matters for AEO: which AI is reading you, and is it coming back?

Feature	SEO Tools (Semrush/Ahrefs)	Bot Managers (Cloudflare)	Analytics (GA4/Plausible)	AI Bot Tracker by AEOfix
AI crawler detection	Partial	Block focus	Filtered out	60+ named bots
Intent classification (Training vs. Search)	None	None	None	Native
Revisit / recency tracking	No	Hard to export	No	Primary signal
Prompt injection protection	No	WAF level only	No	On the endpoint
Geo data cost	Paid add-on	Included	Sampled	Native (zero cost)
Implementation complexity	Heavy script	Infrastructure	Script tag	One HTML line
Works without JavaScript	No	Yes	No	Yes
AEO optimization signal	Keyword focus	Security focus	Human traffic	Ingestion + Revisit

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Open your dashboard → watch the bots arrive

Log in with your API key. See every AI crawler visit in real time — named, categorized, geo-tagged, and revisit-flagged. Explore 7 tabs: Overview, Heatmap, Bots, Pages, Matrix, AI Funnel, and Intelligence. Bot health score dots show at a glance which crawlers are active, slowing, or silent. The Intelligence tab compares prior 7-day vs. last 7-day visit volume per bot with signal badges (NEW / SPIKE / DROP / SILENT). Most customers see their first detection within 48 hours.

Pricing

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✓ 7-tab real-time dashboard
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Questions You'll Have Before Installing

You've seen GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot in your logs. Here's why they require different responses. +

AI Training bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended) are ingesting your content into future model weights — the Stock signal. They determine what GPT-5 and Claude 4 will know about your brand a year from now. AI Search bots (OAI-SearchBot, Perplexitybot, Grok) are retrieving content for real-time answers being served right now — the Flow signal. They're connected to current citations and live referral traffic. Optimizing for each requires different responses, and only AI Bot Tracker tells you which you're getting.

You paste before </body>. Here's what that looks like on each platform. +

Yes — every platform that renders HTML. WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, Ghost, Framer, Carrd, Weebly, Bubble, Next.js, raw HTML — all work with a single paste. No plugin required on any of them. See the full installation guide for step-by-step instructions on each platform.

Most platforms don't expose server logs. Here's what you're missing without them. +

Only if your hosting platform exposes raw logs — which Shopify, Webflow, Squarespace, and most managed hosting providers don't. And even with access, parsing logs manually gives you no revisit tracking, no classification taxonomy, no dashboard, and no deduplication. AI Bot Tracker automates all of that and makes the data actionable in seconds.

What is prompt injection protection on a tracking endpoint? +

Adversarial bots embed instructions in User-Agent strings — things like "ignore previous instructions" or SQL injection strings — to poison analytics data, skew metrics, or probe API structure. Our endpoint runs 15 regex-pattern checks before logging anything. Flagged requests receive the pixel silently but nothing is stored. Your dashboard data stays clean and trustworthy.

You've installed the pixel. When does data start appearing? +

Most customers on active sites with published content see their first AI bot within 1–7 days. Sites with schema markup and AEO optimization tend to see GPTBot or Perplexitybot within 48 hours of install. Lower-traffic sites may take a few days longer — crawl frequency is determined by the bots themselves, not by us.

The Gap in Your Analytics Is Measurable.

Know Exactly Which AI Models Are Reading You — and Whether They Came Back.

As you review your first week of data, you'll see training crawlers, search crawlers, and the exact recency of each model's knowledge of your content. One HTML line. First detection within 48 hours.

You Are Optimizing Blind.Every Tool You Have Was Built That Way Deliberately.