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Hi,

A super quick email this week as I’m just prepping a refreshed “How to get your business recommended by AI” Masterclass for a bunch of businesses in the South West that starts in an hour.

Refreshed because things are constantly evolving in this space.

(I’ll drop a link to the replay next week, or reply to this email if you’d like it as soon as it’s ready.)

And it made me think of one super important check you can do on your website in a few minutes if you want your company to even stand a chance of getting recommended by AI.

Is AI actually allowed to crawl your website?

You’d be surprised how many people block AI from their site without realising.

Maybe it seemed like a good idea 18 months ago and everyone forgot.

Maybe your developer did it across their whole portfolio when everyone was wary of AI “stealing” data last year.

Maybe someone ticked a box on a plugin and didn’t realise the full extent of the tick.

You can run a test here on a tool we’ve made to see if your site is blocking AI.

There’s no cost, and you don’t even need to put in your email address.

Having said that..

If you do put your email address in here, you’ll get free uptime monitoring AND 4 instant reports:

  1. SEO (and the AI block check)
  2. Integrity
  3. Security
  4. Speed

Plus access to a timeline that you (and your developer / anyone on your team you share access with) can add to manually anytime you’ve made a change.

So “something has broken” changes to “ah, that thing we did last Tuesday caused an issue – let’s reverse it”.

If your site uses WordPress, we’ve got a free plugin that will also add plugin updates to the timeline automatically – drop me an email for details of how to get it.

And if you still want more, you can subscribe for those 4 reports to be carried out daily so that you’re alerted if there’s something you or a developer needs to act on.

No more costly issues that would have been a 5 minute fix before they blew up.

Or an hour spent manually checking your site speed every month (by which time it’s too late because something damaged your Google rankings 3 weeks ago).

(It also works brilliantly with your AI agent of choice – feed Claude or Chatty etc. the site health data SiteVitals collects for you in a couple of clicks and get analysis and priorities that align with all of the other activity you’re managing via your agent.)

The reason I’m mentioning this today is because I’m about to give the people on the Masterclass a 50% off promo code so I thought I’d share it here too – just use SV50TW for 50% off for the life time of your subscription.

But heads up – it expires at high noon (GMT) on Thursday.

OK this got longer than I expected, and now I’ve got to dash!

Speak soon, any questions about SiteVitals.co.uk just drop me an email.

Lisa

PS. Use SV50TW for 50% off for the life time of your subscription before noon on Thursday 26th

Lisa Freeman

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