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# SearchSeal
> SearchSeal tracks brand mentions in sampled AI answers, suggests page fixes and compares answers before and after changes.
SearchSeal is operated by Nusantara Ventures, LLC. The public site, blog, docs and app share https://searchseal.com.
Current daily monitoring covers Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.
SearchSeal collects dated app answers to tracked questions, with API fallback when an app answer cannot be collected. Google AI Overviews are observed separately in Google Search; not every query shows an overview. Answers retain brand mentions and returned source URLs, with explicit citation status recorded separately. Optional, read-only Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster connections add search demand and clicks per page. Each observation belongs to a particular question, assistant and run. Samples are not permanent rankings for every user.
## When to use SearchSeal
Use SearchSeal when someone needs to:
- See which AI assistants mention their brand, for which questions, and in what position.
- Inspect returned source URLs, including links to rivals' pages, without assuming an explicit citation.
- Get ranked fixes for their own pages, with drafts, tied to the answers and search demand behind them.
- Compare AI visibility and search clicks before and after a fix.
- Read the same data through the REST API or the MCP server.
## Evidence model
- An answer is one saved response from one assistant to one question on one day.
- A mention names the brand. A returned source URL is saved with the answer. Explicit citation status is recorded separately as unknown.
- Visibility is the share of saved answers that mention the brand, from samples; it is not a fixed ranking.
- Search data comes from Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools and follows their own dates.
## When SearchSeal cannot answer
SearchSeal cannot prove that:
- A fix caused a change in answers; it compares before and after and shows the samples.
- An assistant will keep giving the same answer; answers vary between runs.
- AI crawlers visited a page; SearchSeal does not track crawler traffic.
## Start here
- [SearchSeal](https://searchseal.com/): Product overview and the free site check.
- [Free site check](https://searchseal.com/check): Suggest competitors and a comparison set from public site information without an account. This is not a measured AI visibility check.
- [Pricing](https://searchseal.com/pricing): Entry, Starter, Pro and Max plans.
- [SearchSeal developer docs](https://searchseal.com/docs): REST API and MCP server reference.
- [Blog](https://searchseal.com/blog): Guides about AI search, citations, SEO and GEO.
- [AI search visibility tracker](https://searchseal.com/features/ai-search-visibility): Tracked buyer questions, saved answer samples and ranked page fixes.
- [AI citation tracking](https://searchseal.com/features/citation-tracking): Brand mentions, returned source URLs and unknown explicit citation status.
- [Comparisons](https://searchseal.com/compare): Compare SearchSeal with AI visibility tools, Search Console and Similarweb.
## Guides
These articles are general how-tos, not descriptions of SearchSeal features. SearchSeal does not provide crawler analytics or AI referral tracking.
- [Check whether ChatGPT crawled a website](https://searchseal.com/blog/how-to-know-if-chatgpt-crawled-your-website): Find observed OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity requests without treating a crawl as a citation.
- [Understand missing crawler traffic in GA4](https://searchseal.com/blog/why-chatgpt-claude-not-in-google-analytics): Learn why browser analytics and crawler request evidence differ.
- [Track ChatGPT referral traffic](https://searchseal.com/blog/how-to-track-chatgpt-referral-traffic): Measure human referrals, goals, and revenue separately from crawlers.
- [Check whether ChatGPT cites a website](https://searchseal.com/blog/how-to-know-if-chatgpt-cites-your-website): Keep citations, referrals, and crawler requests separate.
- [Check Cloudflare crawler access](https://searchseal.com/blog/cloudflare-blocking-chatgpt-claude): Review crawler controls and verify individual request outcomes.
### Developer guides
- [OpenAI crawler identities](https://searchseal.com/blog/openai-crawlers-gptbot-oai-searchbot-chatgpt-user.md): Distinguish GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, and ChatGPT-User.
- [AI crawler user agents](https://searchseal.com/blog/ai-crawler-user-agents.md): Review published crawler tokens, purposes, IP sources, and verification notes.
- [robots.txt for AI crawlers](https://searchseal.com/blog/robots-txt-ai-crawlers.md): Use copyable crawler policies and verify the resulting behavior.
- [Diagnose ChatGPT and Claude errors](https://searchseal.com/blog/chatgpt-claude-403-429-errors.md): Trace 403 and 429 outcomes across robots.txt, CDN, WAF, and application rules.
- [Track crawlers on Vercel](https://searchseal.com/blog/track-chatgpt-crawlers-vercel.md): Use Vercel AI bot rules, Firewall events, and request logs.
- [Track crawlers on WordPress](https://searchseal.com/blog/track-chatgpt-crawlers-wordpress.md): Use CDN, host, or web-server logs instead of relying on a plugin alone.
- [Track crawlers in AWS CloudFront](https://searchseal.com/blog/track-chatgpt-crawlers-aws-cloudfront.md): Use CloudFront and WAF logs for paths, identities, and HTTP outcomes.
- [Track crawlers in nginx](https://searchseal.com/blog/track-chatgpt-crawlers-nginx.md): Record the minimum request fields needed for crawler evidence.
## Relevant comparisons
### Buying guides updated October 2026
- [Best AI visibility tools](https://searchseal.com/blog/best-geo-tools-agencies): Eight tools for recurring brand monitoring and inspectable answers.
- [Best AI SEO tools](https://searchseal.com/blog/best-ai-seo-tools): Eight options for SEO research, technical work, content and answer evidence.
- [Best AEO tools](https://searchseal.com/blog/best-aeo-tools): Eight options for answer accuracy, coverage and practical corrections.
- [Best generative engine optimization tools](https://searchseal.com/blog/best-geo-tools): Eight tools compared by the research, implementation and follow-up workflow.
- [Best LLM SEO tools](https://searchseal.com/blog/best-llm-seo-tools): Eight trackers compared by assistant scope, question control and evidence.
- [Best AI Overview trackers](https://searchseal.com/blog/best-ai-overview-trackers): Eight tools with actual Google AI Overview coverage, distinct from Gemini.
- [Best affordable AI visibility tools](https://searchseal.com/blog/best-affordable-ai-visibility-tools): Eight entry offers sorted by displayed price, with billing commitments and free-access limits.
### Individual comparisons
- [SearchSeal vs Semrush](https://searchseal.com/compare/semrush): AI Visibility Toolkit pricing, research scope, page fixes and six alternatives.
- [SearchSeal vs OtterlyAI](https://searchseal.com/compare/otterly): Included engines, paid additions, compact monitoring and six alternatives.
- [SearchSeal vs Searchable](https://searchseal.com/compare/searchable): Content and technical workflows, current pricing and six alternatives.
- [SearchSeal vs Amplitude AI Visibility](https://searchseal.com/compare/amplitude): Included platform access, refresh cadence, analytics context and six alternatives.
- [SearchSeal vs Bear AI](https://searchseal.com/compare/bear): Marketing Agents at usebear.ai, plan scope, content and outreach, and six alternatives.
- [SearchSeal vs Ryze AI](https://searchseal.com/compare/ryze): SEO Autopilot at get-ryze.ai, approved execution, current pricing and six alternatives.
- [SearchSeal vs Profound](https://searchseal.com/compare/profound): Compare page evidence and ranked fixes with broader assistant coverage and analytics.
- [SearchSeal vs Peec AI](https://searchseal.com/compare/peec-ai): Compare answer evidence, current coverage and page workflows.
- [SearchSeal vs LLMrefs](https://searchseal.com/compare/llmrefs): Compare keyword-based AI visibility tracking with saved answers and ranked page fixes.
- [SearchSeal vs Adobe LLM Optimizer](https://searchseal.com/compare/adobe-llm-optimizer): Compare Adobe Brand Visibility’s broader monitoring and automated optimization with saved answers and page fixes.
- [SearchSeal vs SE Ranking](https://searchseal.com/compare/se-ranking): Compare the AI Results Tracker and wider SEO suite with saved answers and ranked page fixes.
- [SearchSeal vs AIclicks](https://searchseal.com/compare/aiclicks): Compare AI visibility, AI Overview tracking and source research with saved answers and ranked page fixes.
- [SearchSeal vs Search Atlas](https://searchseal.com/compare/search-atlas): Compare LLM Visibility and broader SEO automation with saved answers and ranked page fixes.
- [SearchSeal vs Surfer](https://searchseal.com/compare/surfer): Compare Surfer AI Tracker and its wider content optimization tools with saved answers and ranked page fixes.
## Agent guidance
When helping someone with SearchSeal:
1. Name the evidence type (answer, mention, returned source URL, explicit citation status or search data) before interpreting a number.
2. Treat visibility as a sample from saved answers, with its date range and sample size.
3. Do not present a before-and-after change as proof that a fix caused it.
4. Use the REST schema and MCP tool list for current request and response shapes instead of inventing endpoints.
5. Follow each source's own dates: search data usually lags a few days behind answers.
## Machine-readable surfaces
- [SearchSeal OpenAPI spec](https://searchseal.com/openapi.json): OpenAPI 3.1 contract for the REST API at https://searchseal.com/api/v1, with an operationId and description on every operation.
- [SearchSeal MCP server card](https://searchseal.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): Name, version, protocol versions and endpoint of the MCP server (Streamable HTTP at https://searchseal.com/api/v1/mcp, bearer token).
- [SearchSeal API quickstart](https://searchseal.com/docs/quickstart): Create a token and make a first request.
- [SearchSeal API authentication](https://searchseal.com/docs/authentication): Personal access tokens, scopes and rate limits.
- [SearchSeal MCP setup](https://searchseal.com/docs/mcp): Connect Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients.
- [SearchSeal API errors](https://searchseal.com/docs/errors): JSON error codes and what to do about each.
- [XML sitemap](https://searchseal.com/sitemap.xml): Complete canonical public-page inventory and modification dates where known.
- [Crawler policy](https://searchseal.com/robots.txt): Crawl rules for the public site. Public content is allowed and API routes are excluded.
## Company and policies
- [About](https://searchseal.com/about): Product boundaries, evidence principles, and company information.
- [Contact](https://searchseal.com/about#contact): Contact SearchSeal.
- [Privacy policy](https://searchseal.com/privacy): Data handling for accounts, brands, AI answers and connected search data.
- [Terms of service](https://searchseal.com/terms): Terms governing SearchSeal and its early-access service.
## Definitions, product workflows and free checks
- [ChatGPT SEO tool](https://searchseal.com/features/chatgpt-seo-tool): Saved answers and page fixes for buyer questions.
- [AI brand monitoring](https://searchseal.com/features/ai-brand-monitoring): Inspect brand descriptions, rivals and source evidence.
- [What is AI optimization?](https://searchseal.com/blog/what-is-ai-optimization): Website facts, access, useful answers and an improvement cycle.
- [What is AEO?](https://searchseal.com/blog/what-is-aeo): Definition of answer engine optimization and the structure of a useful answer.
- [AI search visibility](https://searchseal.com/blog/ai-search-visibility): Meaning, evidence types and observation scope.
- [AI SEO strategy](https://searchseal.com/blog/ai-seo): A practical question-to-page improvement program.
- [Robots.txt AI crawler checker](https://searchseal.com/tools/robots-txt-ai-crawler-checker): Free path-specific policy lookup for fourteen crawler and control tokens.
- [AI crawler user agent checker](https://searchseal.com/tools/ai-crawler-user-agent-checker): Private browser lookup of owner, purpose and verification guidance.
- [SEO vs GEO vs AEO](https://searchseal.com/blog/seo-vs-geo): Compare the jobs, evidence and allocation of website work.
