AI Bots Now Crawl Your Website More Than Google: What This Means for Visibility
AI bots from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other LLM providers now crawl websites more frequently than Google’s own search crawler, according to a 2026 analysis of 66.7 billion web crawler requests tracked by Vercel and reported by Position Digital. This shift signals a fundamental change in how online visibility works: optimizing for traditional search engines is no longer enough when the majority of automated traffic hitting your site comes from AI systems building knowledge bases, not search indexes. ...