The Agent Experience (AX) Blog

Notes on building agentic experiences, from visibility, crawlability, and usability. Start building for the next trillion users of the internet.

WebMCP9 min read

MCP Server Architecture: How to Make Website Tools Easier for AI Agents to Discover

Learn how MCP server architecture affects AI agent discovery, WebMCP actions, tool descriptions, observability, and what website teams should test before publishing.

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Product Notes9 min read

Crawl-to-Referral Ratio: How to Measure Whether AI Crawlers Send Value Back

Learn how to measure crawl-to-referral ratio for AI crawlers: crawler requests, page value, citations, referrals, and what to monitor before changing access policy.

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Crawler Guides10 min read

AI Bot Traffic Is Being Spoofed. How to Verify Real Crawlers Before You Allow Them

Learn how to verify AI bot traffic before you allow, block, or throttle crawlers. Check user agents, status codes, behavior, and crawler profiles with a practical workflow.

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Crawler Guides7 min read

Claude-User vs ClaudeBot: How to Tell Whether Claude Is Acting for a Real User

Learn the difference between Claude-User and ClaudeBot, what each request can prove, and how to monitor delegated AI agent access without blocking useful traffic.

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Product Notes9 min read

AI Visibility Prompts: How to Turn One-Off Checks Into Repeatable Tests

Learn how to turn AI visibility prompts into repeatable tests that track answers, source pages, crawler evidence, and changes across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI search.

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Agent Guides9 min read

AI Shopping Agent Traffic: How Ecommerce Sites Should Verify Real Agent Visits

Learn how ecommerce sites can identify AI shopping agent traffic, separate useful agents from bots, verify intent, and monitor product-search activity.

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WebMCP9 min read

WebMCP Checker: What to Test Before Publishing Agent Actions

Use this WebMCP Checker workflow to test agent-readable actions, page context, crawler access, prompts, and monitoring before publishing AI agent workflows.

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Agent Guides8 min read

How to Find MCP Servers on Reddit Without Trusting Every Recommendation

Learn how to find MCP servers on Reddit, evaluate recommendations, check GitHub evidence, test permissions, and avoid unsafe agent-tool integrations.

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Crawler Guides10 min read

Why Google-Extended Never Appears in Your Server Logs

Google-Extended has no separate HTTP user agent. Learn what appears in server logs, what crawler analytics can prove, and how to avoid false attribution.

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Product Notes11 min read

AI Agent Audit Logs: What to Track Before Agents Take Actions on Your Website

AI agents are moving from reading websites to taking actions. Learn what to track in AI agent audit logs before you trust agent traffic, tools, and workflows.

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Agent Guides11 min read

AI Procurement Agents: How to Make B2B Product Pages Machine-Readable

AI procurement agents need more than product copy. Learn how to make B2B product pages machine-readable with specs, compatibility, pricing rules, actions, and monitoring.

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SEO Guides12 min read

Should You Add llms.txt? How to Check If AI Crawlers Actually Use It

Learn what llms.txt is, what to include, what not to include, and how to monitor whether AI crawlers request it and follow its linked pages.

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Agent Guides10 min read

How to Use AI Crawler Logs to Find Content Ideas

Learn how to turn AI crawler logs into content ideas, internal links, and post-publish monitoring workflows for better AI search and crawler visibility.

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Crawler Guides11 min read

How to Check If PerplexityBot Crawled Your Website

Learn how to check whether PerplexityBot crawled your website, what status code it received, and how crawler access connects to Perplexity AI search visibility.

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WebMCP10 min read

How AI Shopping Agents Choose Products: A Product Page Checklist for Agentic Commerce

Learn how AI shopping agents evaluate product pages, what ecommerce sites should expose, and how WebMCP and crawler monitoring can support agentic commerce discovery.

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Crawler Guides8 min read

Why Claude Can't Access Your Website: How to Check ClaudeBot, Claude-User, and Crawler Access

Learn why Claude may not be able to access your website, how ClaudeBot and Claude-User differ, and what to check in robots.txt, CDN, WAF, redirects, and crawler logs.

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Agent Guides9 min read

How AI Agents Find Tools: MCP Discovery, Search, and Website Signals

Learn how AI agents discover tools, MCP servers, and websites through search, registries, WebMCP, crawler access, and agent-readable website signals.

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Crawler Guides7 min read

How Do I Know If ChatGPT Is Using My Website?

Learn how to tell whether ChatGPT is using your website, from weak signals like referrals and citations to stronger evidence from OpenAI crawler activity.

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Agent Guides10 min read

What Is Agent Experience for Websites? A Practical Guide to AI Visibility, Crawlability, and Actions

Agent Experience is how well your website works for AI agents. Learn how to improve AI visibility, crawlability, structured actions, and crawler monitoring.

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Crawler Guides12 min read

Should You Block AI Crawlers in Robots.txt? How to Decide Without Losing AI Visibility

Should you block AI crawlers in robots.txt? Learn how to decide which bots to allow, which to restrict, and how to avoid losing AI search visibility.

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Crawler Guides6 min read

The AI Bots Visiting Your Website That Google Analytics Won't Show You

Google Analytics is built around human traffic, not AI crawler visibility. Learn which AI bots may visit your website, why GA can miss them, and how to monitor them with CrawlConsole.

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Crawler Guides7 min read

ChatGPT Ads Are Here. Is OAI-AdsBot Crawling Your Landing Pages?

ChatGPT ads introduce a new crawler visibility problem for advertisers. Learn what OAI-AdsBot is, why OpenAI uses it, and how to check whether it can crawl your landing pages.

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WebMCP5 min read

What Is WebMCP? How to Make Your Website Discoverable by AI Agents

A practical guide to connecting MCP discovery, web crawlers, and AI visibility so teams can understand how agents find and interact with their sites.

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SEO Guides5 min read

How to check backlinks in Google search console

A practical walkthrough for finding backlinks in Google Search Console, exporting link data, and knowing when to go deeper with backlink research.

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Agent Guides3 min read

Turn Claude into an AI Backlink Analysis Agent

A practical setup guide for connecting Claude to CrawlConsole so it can inspect backlinks, referring domains, link gaps, and page-level evidence.

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Agent Guides3 min read

Turn Codex into an AI Backlink Analysis Agent

A practical setup guide for connecting Codex to CrawlConsole so it can inspect backlinks, referring domains, link gaps, and page-level evidence.

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Agent Guides3 min read

Turn OpenClaw into an AI Backlink Analysis Agent

A practical setup guide for connecting OpenClaw to CrawlConsole so it can inspect backlinks, referring domains, link gaps, and page-level evidence.

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Agent Guides3 min read

Turn Hermes into an AI Backlink Analysis Agent

A practical setup guide for connecting Hermes to CrawlConsole so it can inspect backlinks, referring domains, link gaps, and page-level evidence.

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Product Notes3 min read

Introducing the CrawlConsole Blog

A home for practical notes on AI-native backlink intelligence, agentic SEO workflows, and the product thinking behind CrawlConsole.

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