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  "slug": "how-do-i-monitor-google-extended-on-my-site",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/how-do-i-monitor-google-extended-on-my-site",
  "question": "How do I monitor Google-Extended on my site?",
  "description": "Learn how to monitor Google-Extended crawler activity on your website to maintain control over your content usage for Google AI training and model development.",
  "summary": "Monitoring Google-Extended is essential for managing how your site content informs Google AI models. Trakkr provides the technical diagnostics required to verify crawler behavior and ensure your site visibility aligns with your broader AI strategy and data access preferences.",
  "answer": "To monitor Google-Extended, you must track the specific user agent string within your server access logs to identify when this bot accesses your pages. Unlike standard search indexing crawlers, Google-Extended is dedicated to gathering data for AI training purposes. You should use Trakkr to perform ongoing technical diagnostics, which allows you to verify crawler behavior systematically rather than relying on manual spot checks. By integrating these monitoring workflows, you can confirm whether your robots.txt directives are being respected and ensure that your site content is being utilized by Google AI systems only in the manner you intend for your brand.",
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    "ai crawler monitoring"
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    "google ai crawler access",
    "identifying google-extended",
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  "entities": [
    "Google-Extended",
    "Google AI Overviews",
    "Trakkr",
    "Robots.txt",
    "Server logs"
  ],
  "createdAt": "2026-03-08",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "articleSection": "Technical Optimization",
  "tags": [
    "Technical Optimization",
    "Google AI Overviews",
    "Google-Extended",
    "Trakkr",
    "how do i monitor google-extended on my site",
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  "author": {
    "id": "trakkr-research",
    "name": "Trakkr Research",
    "role": "Research team",
    "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/authors/trakkr-research/"
  },
  "collections": [
    {
      "slug": "collections/technical",
      "title": "Technical Optimization"
    },
    {
      "slug": "platforms/google-ai-overviews",
      "title": "Google AI Overviews Pages"
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  ],
  "guides": [
    {
      "slug": "technical-ai-visibility",
      "title": "Technical AI visibility setup for crawlers, schema, and discovery",
      "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/guides/technical-ai-visibility/"
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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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      "label": "Google AI Overviews",
      "url": "https://blog.google/products/search/ai-overviews-search-no-google/",
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      "label": "Google robots.txt introduction",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro",
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      "label": "Trakkr docs",
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