CheckAIRankBot
If you found this address in your server logs, CheckAIRankBot fetched a handful of pages from your site because someone asked CheckAIRank to check that site’s AI-search visibility — usually the owner.
CheckAIRankBot/1.0 (+https://scan.checkairank.com/scan-bot)
What it does
It reads publicly available pages exactly as a search crawler would, and checks things like your structured data, heading structure, robots.txt, and llms.txt. It does not execute JavaScript, submit forms, follow links behind a login, or store your page content beyond the length of the scan.
How politely
- At most 8 pages per scan, never a full-site crawl.
- At most 3 requests at a time, with a per-request timeout.
- Rate limited per target domain, so the same site cannot be scanned repeatedly in a short window — by anyone.
- Only GET requests. It never writes, posts, or modifies anything.
How to block it
Add this to your robots.txt and we will stop:
User-agent: CheckAIRankBot Disallow: /
Worth knowing: blocking us only stops this tool from showing you what AI engines see. It has no effect on whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google actually cite you — those are separate crawlers with separate rules, which is exactly what a scan reports on.
Questions
Email carter.anderberg@gmail.com and a human will reply.