openai.com
Largely invisible
We couldn't reach openai.com cleanly. The domain may be down, or the site is blocking automated requests (a WAF/403) — AI crawlers likely hit the same wall.
Homepage returned HTTP 403 — a block or server error, not readable content. Engines see the same.
How to fix: AI crawler access →No blanket Disallow for the major AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot can fetch your key pages.
How to fix: AI crawler rules →No /llms.txt found. Engines have no curated map to your best content — they're guessing.
How to fix: llms.txt playbook →Couldn't read the homepage, so no schema could be detected.
How to fix: Answer Engine Optimization →Couldn't read the homepage to assess structure.
How to fix: GEO playbook →You are an engineer working on the website openai.com. Below is an AI-visibility (GEO) audit of the site — the signals that decide whether AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) can crawl, understand and cite it. Implement the fixes. ## Audit findings ### Sitewide signals - [FAIL] AI-crawler reachability: Homepage returned HTTP 403 — a block or server error, not readable content. Engines see the same. - [PASS] GPTBot / ClaudeBot access: No blanket Disallow for the major AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot can fetch your key pages. - [FAIL] llms.txt: No /llms.txt found. Engines have no curated map to your best content — they're guessing. - [FAIL] JSON-LD schema: Couldn't read the homepage, so no schema could be detected. - [FAIL] Answer-first structure: Couldn't read the homepage to assess structure. ## Implementation rules - Work through the failing signals in the order above; PASS items need no changes. - Crawler access: check robots.txt AND the WAF/CDN layer for blocks on GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended. - llms.txt: create a curated Markdown index at /llms.txt per https://llmstxt.org — one H1, a > summary, ## sections, every link with a one-line description. - JSON-LD: add Organization (+ logo, sameAs) sitewide and Article/FAQPage on content pages; link entities with absolute @id references. - Answer-first structure: under each question-shaped H2, place a self-contained 40–80-word answer paragraph before any elaboration. - Do not fabricate content; restructure what exists. ## Acceptance criteria - Re-run the free checker at https://geoplaybooks.com/check/ for openai.com until all 5 signals are PASS. - Validate llms.txt at https://geoplaybooks.com/tools/llms-txt-validator/ (0 errors). - Verify JSON-LD parses in Google's Rich Results Test.
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Scores move as you ship fixes. Re-run the check anytime — or get a human to run the deep version with cross-engine prompt-sampling.