AI Visibility Scorecard
How to Stop Bad Bots and Block Them
stopbadbots.com · Technology
Borderline visible. AI bots can crawl How to Stop Bad Bots and Block Them, but the structured-data signals are thin - you are at real risk of being skipped when buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity for a recommendation.
AI engines read this profile 8 times
Claude · Meta AI
#1,683,638 of 2,705,907 in Technology for AI visibility
4
AEO Visibility
iBorderline · 4.3/10
0
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Not agent-ready · 0/100
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AI Adoption
iNone detected · -/100
About How to Stop Bad Bots and Block Them
from our crawl and measurement
How to Stop Bad Bots and Block Them is a business whose own site puts it this way: "StopBadBots is a WordPress free plugin that blocks bad bots and improves your site's performance and security. Download right now and protect your website." When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 4.3 out of 10.
On its own pages the site does well on crawler access and the files AI engines look for. It is passable on a partly stated business identity. What holds it back is a heading structure that lays out what it offers, structured data describing the business, credibility markers like credentials or reviews and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
AI crawlers have visited 2 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic).
The 6 signals AI reads
Strong · Good · Fair · Weak
Structured Data
Weak
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
Fair
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
Fair
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
Weak
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
Good
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
Weak
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
Strong
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Authority
Weak
Little domain authority yet.
Reference Presence
Weak
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
Weak
No press coverage found yet.
Community
Weak
No community discussion yet.
Social Mentions
Weak
No social discussion found yet.
What this score means
Your AEO score measures whether AI search engines - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini - can actually read your site and cite it in answers. Roughly two-thirds of sites are invisible to them. At 4.3/10, How to Stop Bad Bots and Block Them is crawlable but under-signaled - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on July 1, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
Source URL: https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/stopbadbots
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