AI Visibility

AI Visibility shows where AI assistants and answer engines cite your site: the questions Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude answer about your space, which sources they cite, and whether your pages are in the answer.

There is nothing to configure. You never type a keyword or watch list — the question universe builds itself from three sources:

• AI-mention reverse lookups. Questions where AI assistants already mention your domain, discovered through DataForSEO.
• Your own Search Console queries. Conversational queries containing at least six words enter a cost-paced rotation, starting with Google AI Overview and then covering the other tracked engines. A new batch contains up to 25 queries and waits until the prior batch has reached the other four engines.
• Shared live checks. When another SERPclimber project runs a live check that cites your site, the same saved answer can appear in your project without another provider request. Cross-user matches require a connected Search Console property for the cited domain; the originating user and project are never shown.

The first scan starts automatically when Google Search Console is bound to the project and the site-managed data service is available. After that, one daily freshness pass keeps the data moving:

• DataForSEO's mention index and aggregate metrics are checked daily. Most runs request only records updated since the prior sync; a full reconciliation runs at least weekly so citations that disappear become recorded losses while their history remains visible.
• Up to 25 eligible Search Console queries enter the AI Overview queue in a batch, including a saved no answer result when no overview appears. Never-checked queries go first, followed by the oldest checks once they are at least seven days old. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude checks for that batch are completed before another batch is admitted. The daily budget may make a batch smaller than 25.
• Questions saved from Ask AI or a shared live check get first priority and become eligible for another check after 72 hours. Search Console engine expansion follows, then older refreshes. A Search Console-only question that has not appeared in the AI Overview rotation for 35 days pauses its other-engine refreshes until it appears again.

Automatic work uses the project's managed monthly data budget, not the user's Ask AI quota. The scheduler spreads the remaining budget across the remaining days of the month, so a large backlog is processed gradually instead of exhausting the allowance at once. If the monthly limit is reached, completed results are kept and automatic checks resume when budget is available.

Questions

Every question row represents a tracked engine check. Its per-engine result is cited (your page is in the answer's sources, with its rank in the source list), competitor cited (someone else is in the answer, you are not), not cited, or no answer when that particular engine returned nothing. The status views slice the universe:

• Where you appear now — questions where at least one engine currently cites you.
• Opportunities — questions where a competitor is cited and you are not, on any engine. These are the answers you could plausibly be in.
• Previously cited — questions that cited your site before but do not cite it now.
• Never cited — checked questions where your site has never been observed as a citation.
• All — every checked question in the active universe, including checks where an engine returned no answer. The table starts with the latest citation activity and every data column can be sorted.

Use Citation changes to narrow any status view to questions that gained a citation, lost a citation, or changed either way in the last 30 days. The engine filter can be combined with it, so a change must have happened on one of the selected engines.

The Activity column shows the latest recorded citation gain or loss and when the question was last checked. For questions without a recorded transition, it shows when tracking began. Pin a question to mark it for easy recognition. Mute a question to drop it from views and summary counts; muted questions stay in their own view so you can restore them.

Clicking a question opens the answer drill-in: a snapshot of the answer each engine gave, with its full citation list and your own pages highlighted. It also shows when the question was first checked, first cited, last cited, last changed, and last checked. When an answer cites one of your pages, the row links straight to that page.

Ask AI

Use the Ask tab for a fresh spot-check. Enter one question, choose the engines, and AI Visibility asks them live. Successful answers are saved with your tracked questions, including each engine’s answer snapshot and citations. Saved answers then refresh automatically; you do not need to ask the same question again just to update it.

You can make the same request from Chat by explicitly asking it to check the AI engines now. Live asks use your included monthly allowance or enabled overages and are unavailable while a project is read-only. Reading saved AI Visibility results in Chat does not use a live ask.

Question-row icons distinguish automatic checks from your Google Search Console queries, checks you made in the Ask tab or Chat, and shared checks discovered through another SERPclimber project. Shared-only checks do not appear under Questions you’ve asked.

Per-page view

Page Detail includes an AI Visibility tab showing the slice of the question universe that cites that specific full URL — the same table, views, pins, and answer drill-in, filtered to answers where that page appears as a source. Equal paths on different subdomains remain separate.

Access

The Access tab answers a different question: can AI systems reach your site at all?

• robots.txt verdicts for known AI crawlers — model-training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, and others), search indexers (OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot), and live assistant fetchers (ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User). Each shows whether your robots.txt allows it, blocks it, or leaves it unspecified.
• llms.txt detection — whether your site serves one and where.
• Real fetch counts — with Cloudflare connected and a zone bound, the panel shows how many requests each crawler category actually made in the last 30 days, straight from your edge traffic.

Requirements

• Google Search Console — required. The question universe starts from the queries you already rank for; without a bound GSC property the module shows a setup prompt.
• DataForSEO — site-managed. It powers mention reverse lookups, AI search volume, AI Overview checks, and live responses from the other tracked engines. If the service is temporarily unavailable, saved results remain visible and new scans wait until service resumes. See AI search data sources.
• Cloudflare — optional. Adds real AI bot fetch counts to the Access tab and summary.
• GA4 — optional. Adds traffic evidence, including visits arriving from AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity.