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  "slug": "how-do-i-audit-whether-google-ai-overviews-can-crawl-my-wordpress-site",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/how-do-i-audit-whether-google-ai-overviews-can-crawl-my-wordpress-site",
  "question": "How do I audit whether Google AI Overviews can crawl my WordPress site?",
  "description": "Learn how to audit your WordPress site for Google AI Overviews crawl access. Follow this technical guide to verify crawler settings and improve AI visibility.",
  "summary": "Verifying Google AI Overviews access requires checking robots.txt directives, server logs, and structured data implementation. Use this guide to ensure your WordPress site remains visible to AI engines and properly indexed for future search results.",
  "answer": "To audit whether Google AI Overviews can crawl your WordPress site, you must first inspect your robots.txt file for any directives that might inadvertently block the Googlebot-extended user agent. After confirming access permissions, review your server access logs to identify patterns of AI-specific crawler activity and ensure your content is not restricted by meta tags. Finally, implement structured data and machine-readable formats like llms.txt to provide clear context for AI models. Trakkr provides ongoing monitoring to track how your brand appears across major AI platforms, helping you identify technical gaps that prevent your content from being cited in AI-generated answers.",
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  "entities": [
    "Google AI Overviews",
    "WordPress",
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    "robots.txt",
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  ],
  "createdAt": "2025-12-14",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-26",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-23",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
  "tags": [
    "Citation Intelligence",
    "Google AI Overviews",
    "WordPress",
    "Googlebot",
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  "author": {
    "id": "trakkr-research",
    "name": "Trakkr Research",
    "role": "Research team",
    "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/authors/trakkr-research/"
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      "slug": "collections/citations",
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      "slug": "platforms/google-ai-overviews",
      "title": "Google AI Overviews Pages"
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      "slug": "citation-audits",
      "title": "How to audit citations, sources, and answer grounding",
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      "slug": "technical-ai-visibility",
      "title": "Technical AI visibility setup for crawlers, schema, and discovery",
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      "label": "Google AI features and your website",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features",
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