Get Found by AI Answer Engines,
Without Feeding Every Scraper on the Internet.
More of your customers are asking ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google’s AI answers before they ever click a search result. Those tools learn what to say about you by crawling your website. So do dozens of bots you’ve never heard of that copy your content, resell it, and send you nothing in return.
Most businesses have no idea which is which. Their site lets every crawler in, or a well-meaning security setting quietly blocks all of them, including the ones that would have recommended them.
Sidestreet AI Visibility fixes that. We show you exactly which AI crawlers are visiting, what they’re reading, and how often. Then we set the rules: welcome the answer engines that send customers your way, block the scrapers that don’t, and shape your content so the AI tools that do read it get the story right.
Part Technical Control,
Part Editorial Strategy
See it. We set up crawler monitoring at the network edge, in front of your site, so you get a clear report of every AI bot that visits: who owns it, what it’s for (search, training, or an assistant fetching an answer in real time), which pages it reads, and whether it follows your rules.
Control it. Based on your goals, we allow, block, or rate-limit crawlers one by one. A law firm might welcome AI search assistants and block training crawlers entirely. A publisher might want something stricter. For content-heavy sites, we can also set up paid access, where AI companies that want your content have to pay for it, as that option opens up more widely.
Earn the mention. Control is half the job. The other half is making sure the answer engines that do read you can understand you. We tighten your structured data, clean up how your services, locations, and people are described, and write content in the question-and-answer shape these tools pull from. It’s the same senior editorial team behind our SEO work, applied to a new kind of reader.
Then we keep watching. New AI crawlers show up every month, and the rules need to keep up.
What We Provide
AI Crawler Monitoring
A plain-English report of which AI bots visit your site, what they read, and whether they follow the rules you’ve set.
Learn moreAllow, Block & Rate-Limit Rules
Crawler-by-crawler control, so answer engines that send customers get in and scrapers that only take content get stopped.
Learn moreAnswer Engine Optimization
Structured data, clear service and location descriptions, and Q&A-style content that helps AI tools describe you accurately.
Learn moreContent Protection for Publishers
Stricter controls for media outlets and content-heavy brands, including paid crawler access as the option becomes widely available.
Learn moreAI Mention Tracking
Regular checks on what the major AI assistants actually say about your business when customers ask, and what to fix when they get it wrong.
Learn moreOngoing Rule Management
New crawlers reviewed and handled as they appear, with a monthly summary of what changed and why.
Learn moreCommon Questions
Straightforward answers to what we hear most from Sidestreet ai visibility clients.
Usually not. Blocking everything also blocks the AI search tools that increasingly send customers to businesses like yours. The smarter move is to separate the crawlers that recommend you from the ones that just take your content, and treat them differently. We’ll help you decide where that line belongs for your business.
SEO is about ranking in search results. This is about what AI assistants say when someone asks them a question instead of searching. The two overlap a lot, and we handle both, but AI visibility adds a layer SEO never had: deciding which machines get to read your site at all.
Paid crawler access is starting to roll out at the network level, and we can set it up for content-heavy clients as it becomes available. It’s early, and we won’t promise revenue. For most businesses the bigger wins today are visibility in AI answers and keeping scrapers off your content.
No. The controls sit in front of your existing site at the network level, so your site stays where it is. Setup is usually a DNS change and a configuration project, not a rebuild.
There’s a one-time setup covering monitoring, your first set of rules, and a content and structured-data review, then a monthly plan for ongoing management and reporting. We quote it after a quick look at your site and your goals.
Anywhere. The work is done remotely, and our team is based in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The full list of areas we serve is at the bottom of this page.
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Contract clients who stayed 1+ year and had a negative ROI — zero, ever
400%+
E-commerce revenue growth for a Columbia-area manufacturer
150%
Social media engagement boost for a Carolinas church
15+
Years of senior-level marketing, web, and production work
Find Out What AI
Is Saying About You.
We’ll show you which AI crawlers are on your site right now and what the major assistants say when someone asks about you. Then we’ll talk about what to do with it.
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