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Your website might be invisible to ChatGPT and nobody at your store would ever know - AEO / GEO Megathread

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I realized our DI site was blocking ours from ChatGPT too. We sent it to our DI rep and ours is still blocked a week later.
I set up a ChatGPT automation to check the VDP daily. Sometimes it finds info, others days it comes back as blocked.
 

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Dealers are discovering their websites may be completely invisible to AI shopping assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity due to bot-blocking settings in robots.txt or Cloudflare configurations — and there's no automatic alert when this happens. The thread details a specific case where Dealer Inspire sites were blocking AI crawlers, with one dealer's Tahoe VDP confirmed inaccessible to ChatGPT, meaning that vehicle could be dropped from AI-generated consideration sets in favor of competitors whose pages can be read. Additional concerns raised include ChatGPT routing shoppers to third-party listings like Capital One Auto Navigator instead of dealer sites, and a GPT-6 rollout that stripped UTM tags making AI-referred traffic indistinguishable from direct traffic.

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