If an AI Doesn’t Recommend You, First Check How Many Pages Its Search Engine Has Indexed (2026 Test: We Had Only 3)
The most common GEO mistake is treating all AI assistants as a single thing to optimize. In practice, each AI assistant queries its own search engine when it goes online, so “an AI doesn’t recommend you” really means “you aren’t indexed, or don’t rank, in that AI’s search.” We ran that check ourselves: one major vendor’s search returned only 3 results for site:, even though the site has 326 pages — and those 3 were old titles and stale articles from years ago. This article lays out two five-minute checks (site: for indexed volume, business keywords for ranking), three steps to rule out problems on your own side (did the crawler arrive / is it blocked by your protection / verify content completeness with a crawler user agent), and three reasons pages can be crawled but not indexed, with the matching fix for each.