Bot Lens – SEO, GEO & AI Crawler View

Tracking since May 28, 2026.

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• Jun 4, 2026
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  Bot Lens is a one-click SEO and GEO audit Chrome extension for people who need to see what search engines and AI answer engines can actually read on a page.
  
  Open any page, click Bot Lens, and inspect it through four live lenses:
  
  Crawler Lens shows the raw/no-JavaScript version of the page so you can spot render gaps, missing text, weak fallbacks, blocked resources, and crawler access issues.
  
  SEO Lens checks title, meta description, canonical, headings, links, images, schema, robots directives, sitemap discovery, hreflang, Open Graph, and rich-result readiness.
  
  GEO Lens maps the page context that AI search and answer engines can use, including extracted chunks, facts, entities, token budgets, citation readiness, and llms.txt / robots access signals.
  
  Audit Lens turns the scan into a prioritized fix queue with copyable recommendations for metadata, structured data, robots policy, llms.txt, IndexNow, and page evidence.
  
  Use Bot Lens for technical SEO audits, AI search optimization, crawler debugging, client QA, launch checks, and content visibility reviews. The free extension runs only when you click it and processes the scan in your browser. Bot Lens Pro adds monitoring, saved scan history, alerts, and shareable reports for important pages.

  Bot Lens shows you any web page the way search crawlers and AI answer engines actually read it — not the way your browser paints it. One toolbar click overlays the live page with four switchable lenses for SEO, GEO (generative engine optimization), and crawler diagnostics, each with on-page annotations and a draggable report panel.
  
  If Google, Bing, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot can't see your content, you don't rank and you don't get cited. Bot Lens makes that gap visible in seconds.
  
  ▣ CRAWLER LENS — the no-JavaScript view
  See the raw server HTML with scripts disabled, exactly as a crawler's first pass sees it. Pages that are blank without JavaScript show up blank. Bot Lens scores render-risk and flags bot walls, empty SPA shells, and scroll-reveal content — and can re-fetch the page "as" Googlebot, GPTBot, or ClaudeBot to catch cloaking.
  
  ▣ SEO LENS — search eligibility at a glance
  Health score, Google-style SERP snippet preview, title & meta-description length meters, indexability and snippet controls, a robots.txt crawler/answer-bot access matrix, canonical clustering, and rich-result (structured data) readiness.
  
  ▣ GEO LENS — answer-engine readiness
  Built for the AI search era. A token-budget slider picks the chunks an LLM would actually extract, a context heatmap paints extractability over the page, "fact magnets" surface prices, dates, contacts and stats, plus an entity card, source-quality read, llms.txt detection, and a copyable context packet.
  
  ▣ AUDIT LENS — one money-page readiness view
  A readiness map, a fix queue ranked by business impact, an evidence grid, a policy & access panel, and a copy-ready implementation kit (meta tags, schema, llms.txt, robots.txt, IndexNow).
  
  WHY IT'S DIFFERENT
  • Faithful no-JS render — analysis is computed from parsed HTML, so it works even when the page fails to render.
  • Covers both classic SEO and GEO/AEO — optimize for Google and for AI answer engines in one tool.
  • View-as-bot presets for Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot.
  • Privacy-first: runs entirely in your browser. No account, no tracking.
  
  PERMISSIONS, KEPT MINIMAL
  Storage (saves your panel position and settings) and a transient User-Agent override for the "view as bot" feature, plus host access used only to fetch the page, its robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt. No "tabs", no "debugger".
  
  Perfect for SEO specialists, content and growth teams, technical marketers, and developers shipping JavaScript-heavy sites who need to know what bots really see.
  
  Bot Lens Pro (coming soon): batch/sitemap-wide scans, scheduled re-crawls with render-risk history, multi-page entity & answer-coverage tracking, exportable implementation bundles, and recurring readiness reports. Learn more at https://botlens.dev
  
  Free. No sign-up. Click the icon on any page and see your site through a bot's eyes.

• Jun 4, 2026
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  Interactive lenses for live SEO, GEO, crawler access, and page audit checks.

  See any page like Google, GPTBot & AI crawlers do — instant SEO, GEO & robots.txt audit with a no-JavaScript render.

• Jun 4, 2026
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  Bot Lens

  Bot Lens – SEO, GEO & AI Crawler View

• Jun 4, 2026
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• Jun 4, 2026
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