Free AI & SEO Tools
Check whether AI engines can crawl and cite your site, trace redirect chains that hurt rankings, and audit robots.txt for accidental Googlebot blocks. The three tools every SEO should run quarterly.
Why this matters
Search has split into two ecosystems: traditional Google, and AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot). The infrastructure that lets each one find and cite your content overlaps but is not identical. A robots.txt rule that's fine for Googlebot can block GPTBot. A 6-hop redirect chain that Google tolerates can confuse AI crawlers entirely.
These three tools cover the basics: see how AI-ready your site is across crawler access / metadata / structure, trace every redirect hop to spot loops or excessive chains, and audit your robots.txt to confirm you're not accidentally blocking the engines you want to be cited by.
Free tools in this category
Score AI readiness for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini. Audit crawler access, generate llms.txt, find submission targets.
Use this tool →Trace the full redirect chain. Detect loops, excessive hops, and SEO-damaging 302 redirects.
Use this tool →Fetch and analyse robots.txt for any site. See all rules, detect Googlebot blocks, missing sitemaps.
Use this tool →Want continuous monitoring instead of one-off?
Each tool above runs a one-off check. To get alerted whenever something changes, set up a continuous monitor:
Continuous version of Redirect Chain Checker. Alerts when a redirect loop, excessive hops, or a broken final destination silently appears after a CMS or framework change.
A single accidental Disallow: / can deindex your entire site. Continuous monitoring catches the change within minutes — long before Googlebot has stopped crawling.
A broken /sitemap.xml stops Google discovering new pages. Continuous monitoring confirms the sitemap stays accessible and valid XML.
Verify critical SEO copy (meta description text, structured data markers, AI-readable content blocks) remains on the page after deploys.
Or browse all 24 monitor types · run a one-off Website Health Score · see all free monitoring tools.