AI technical SEO makes sure search engines and AI crawlers can access, render and understand your website: robots rules, AI bot policies, llms.txt, sitemaps, rendering, speed, internal links and server logs.
AI tools can only cite what their crawlers can fetch and parse. Many sites accidentally block AI bots, hide content behind JavaScript or bury key pages. Fixing access is the cheapest visibility gain available.
Quick answer
- What: AI Search Readiness for Next.js
- Who: Anup Srivastava, SEO, GEO and AEO specialist with over 13 years in search
- First step: a free consultation and visibility check
- Contact: +91-8840146999 (call or WhatsApp)
Next.js: strengths and SEO essentials
Next.js is a React framework that suits high-performance marketing sites and apps with SEO needs. For search and AI visibility the essentials are server components, static generation, metadata API and image optimization. The main things to watch are misconfigured rendering modes and heavy client bundles.
When businesses call me
- Important pages are orphaned or deep in the site
- Server logs have never been checked for AI crawlers
- You are considering an llms.txt file
- You are not sure which AI bots your firewall or robots.txt blocks
- Key content loads only after JavaScript runs
What you get
AI crawler access audit
Robots.txt, CDN, firewall and bot-management rules checked for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Bingbot and others.
Bot policy
A clear decision per crawler: allow for search and answers, block or limit for training, based on your goals.
Log file analysis
Which bots crawl which pages, how often, and where they hit errors.
Rendering checks
Server-side or pre-rendered output for content that matters, verified with fetch tests.
Internal linking
Shallow, logical paths to priority pages so crawlers and users reach them quickly.
Sitemaps and canonicals
Clean XML sitemaps, correct canonicals and status codes.
llms.txt
A curated llms.txt that points AI tools to your most important, up-to-date pages, published as a low-cost experiment.
Performance
Core Web Vitals and server response fixes that help every crawler and user.
Get a free AI crawler access check
Call or WhatsApp +91-8840146999, or send a quick enquiry and get a reply within one working day.
How the engagement works
- Collect. Robots.txt, CDN and firewall settings, sitemaps and 30 to 90 days of server logs.
- Test access. Fetch key pages as each major crawler and compare the output.
- Decide policy. Agree which bots to allow, limit or block, and why.
- Implement. Update rules, rendering, sitemaps, llms.txt and links with your developer or directly.
- Verify. Confirm with logs and live tests that the right bots now reach the right pages.
Common AI crawlers
| Crawler | Operator | Typical purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Googlebot | Search index used by AI Overviews and AI Mode | |
| Google-Extended | Control token for Gemini model use, not ranking | |
| OAI-SearchBot / ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | ChatGPT search results and live browsing |
| GPTBot | OpenAI | Model training |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Perplexity search index |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Model training and retrieval |
| Bingbot | Microsoft | Bing index used by Copilot and other assistants |
How success is measured
Every engagement reports on a small set of numbers agreed at the start, so progress is visible and comparable month to month:
- AI crawler hits on priority pages
- Crawl errors and blocked requests
- Pages rendered with full content
- Index coverage
- Time to first crawl for new pages
Why work with Anup Srivastava
Over 13 years in search
Hands-on SEO since the era of ten blue links, now leading technical SEO and AI search work.
Senior, direct access
You work with Anup directly, not a junior account manager. Strategy and key execution stay with the specialist.
Honest promises
No guaranteed rankings or AI citations. You get a clear plan, transparent reporting and work tied to leads.
Global, remote-friendly
Based in Delhi NCR, working with clients across India, the Gulf, Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.
Frequently asked questions
Does blocking GPTBot remove me from ChatGPT search?
Not necessarily. OpenAI uses different user agents for training and for search. You can block training while allowing the search crawler, which is a common choice.
Can JavaScript sites be cited by AI tools?
Yes, if the important content is in the initial HTML or reliably rendered. Many AI crawlers do not execute JavaScript, so server-side rendering is the safe choice.
My CDN blocks bots by default. Is that a problem?
It can be. Some CDN and security settings block AI crawlers silently. I check and adjust these rules with you.
Is llms.txt an official standard?
No. It is a proposed convention and support varies by tool. It is cheap to add and can help some AI tools find your key pages, but it does not replace robots.txt, sitemaps or good content.
Why check server logs?
Logs show what crawlers actually do, not what you hope they do. They reveal blocked bots, wasted crawl on junk URLs and pages that are never visited.