# AI crawler and indexing guides

Trace crawler policy, response status, canonicals, rendered content and index controls before diagnosing an AI search visibility problem.

Canonical category: https://www.geoitis.com/blog/category/crawl-indexing

- [Crawler and Index Eligibility for AI Search](https://www.geoitis.com/blog/crawler-index-eligibility.md) — A field guide to the five eligibility gates that decide whether search and AI retrieval systems can process the page you intended to publish.
- [AI Crawler Access Checker: Use Cases and Fixes](https://www.geoitis.com/blog/ai-crawler-access-checker-use-cases.md) — A diagnostic guide to testing named AI agents, reading the result without overclaiming, and leaving evidence another operator can reproduce.