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  "slug": "how-do-i-diagnose-ai-search-problems-after-a-site-migration",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/how-do-i-diagnose-ai-search-problems-after-a-site-migration",
  "question": "How do I diagnose AI search problems after a site migration?",
  "description": "Learn how to diagnose AI search problems after a site migration. Use this technical guide to audit crawler access, citation rates, and indexing for AI engines.",
  "summary": "Diagnosing AI search visibility after a migration requires auditing crawler access, verifying content accessibility, and monitoring citation rates across platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Use Trakkr to track these technical shifts and ensure your new site architecture remains discoverable by major AI answer engines.",
  "answer": "To diagnose AI search problems post-migration, begin by verifying that your robots.txt file and meta-tag directives do not inadvertently block AI user agents. Use Trakkr to monitor crawler activity patterns, ensuring that AI bots are successfully re-indexing your new URL structure. Simultaneously, compare pre-migration and post-migration citation rates across platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity to identify visibility gaps. If you detect a decline, implement or update llms.txt files to provide clear, machine-readable context for AI models. Correcting internal linking and breadcrumb schema is essential to help AI crawlers understand your new site hierarchy and maintain your brand's presence in AI-generated answers.",
  "keywords": [
    "how do i diagnose ai search problems after a site migration",
    "diagnose ai search problems",
    "ai crawler behavior",
    "site migration ai visibility"
  ],
  "keywordVariants": [
    "how do i diagnose ai search problems after a site migration",
    "troubleshoot ai search indexing",
    "post-migration ai visibility audit",
    "ai crawler access issues",
    "fixing ai citation drops"
  ],
  "entities": [
    "Trakkr",
    "Google AI Overviews",
    "ChatGPT",
    "Perplexity",
    "Claude"
  ],
  "createdAt": "2026-02-07",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
  "tags": [
    "Citation Intelligence",
    "ChatGPT",
    "Claude",
    "Perplexity",
    "Google AI Overviews",
    "Trakkr"
  ],
  "author": {
    "id": "trakkr-research",
    "name": "Trakkr Research",
    "role": "Research team",
    "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/authors/trakkr-research/"
  },
  "collections": [
    {
      "slug": "collections/citations",
      "title": "Citation Intelligence"
    },
    {
      "slug": "collections/technical",
      "title": "Technical Optimization"
    },
    {
      "slug": "platforms/chatgpt",
      "title": "ChatGPT Pages"
    },
    {
      "slug": "platforms/claude",
      "title": "Claude Pages"
    },
    {
      "slug": "platforms/google-ai-overviews",
      "title": "Google AI Overviews Pages"
    },
    {
      "slug": "platforms/perplexity",
      "title": "Perplexity Pages"
    }
  ],
  "guides": [
    {
      "slug": "citation-audits",
      "title": "How to audit citations, sources, and answer grounding",
      "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/guides/citation-audits/"
    },
    {
      "slug": "technical-ai-visibility",
      "title": "Technical AI visibility setup for crawlers, schema, and discovery",
      "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/guides/technical-ai-visibility/"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Anthropic Claude",
      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/claude",
      "type": "external-platform"
    },
    {
      "label": "OpenAI ChatGPT",
      "url": "https://openai.com/chatgpt",
      "type": "external-platform"
    },
    {
      "label": "Perplexity",
      "url": "https://www.perplexity.ai/",
      "type": "external-platform"
    },
    {
      "label": "llms.txt specification",
      "url": "https://llmstxt.org/",
      "type": "standard"
    },
    {
      "label": "Trakkr docs",
      "url": "https://trakkr.ai/learn/docs",
      "type": "first-party"
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  ]
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