Citare Tools · 19 free tools

Free SEO + AI search tools

19 free tools across 6 categories — check whether AI search engines can see and cite your site, validate the structural signals they read, and look up real keyword + backlink data. Tools that call third-party data APIs require a free signup; local-only tools work without one.

AI readiness

Check if AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) can see and cite your site.

AI Robots.txt Checker

Check if robots.txt is blocking AI crawlers

Paste any URL — we fetch robots.txt and report allow/block across GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended, and 20+ more.

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AI Bot UA Detector

Identify which AI bot is hitting your site

Paste a User-Agent string — we tell you which AI crawler it is, who runs it, and whether it's verified-good.

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llms.txt Generator

Generate an llms.txt for AI ingestion

Paste your site URL — we draft a starter llms.txt with your key pages, ready to deploy at the root.

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AI Citation Score

Score how citable your site is to ChatGPT + Perplexity

We run 6 readiness checks (schema, sitemap, llms.txt, robots, freshness, brand entity) and score 0-100.

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Brand Disambiguation

Check if AI knows which 'you' is you

Searches Wikidata + Wikipedia for entities matching your brand — surfaces namesake collisions and recommends sameAs URLs.

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Structured data

Inspect + generate JSON-LD schema for richer indexing.

JSON-LD Inspector

Validate every JSON-LD block on a page

Paste a URL — we extract every JSON-LD block, validate each against schema.org, and flag warnings.

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JSON-LD Generator

Generate JSON-LD for any page

Pick a schema type (Organization, LocalBusiness, Article, FAQPage) and we generate paste-ready JSON-LD.

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Sitemaps + bots

Sitemap parsing, robots.txt rules, bot user-agent identification.

Sitemap Health Checker

Validate sitemap.xml structure + lastmod coverage

Auto-detects sitemap from robots.txt, parses XML, follows index nesting, reports lastmod coverage + AI-readiness flags.

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robots.txt Generator

Generate a starter robots.txt — AI-friendly defaults

Pick which AI crawlers to allow + paste your sitemap URL — we generate paste-ready robots.txt.

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AI Crawler Tracking

Track which AI bots actually visit your site

Drop-in script for Vercel / Cloudflare / WordPress logs every AI crawler hit, verified against published IP ranges.

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Keyword research

Volume, difficulty, SERP, and ranking lookups.

Free Keyword Generator

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Find 50+ keywords + monthly volume

Enter a seed term + country — we return 50 related keywords with volume, KD 0-100, and CPC. DataForSEO-backed.

Keyword Difficulty Checker

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Score keyword difficulty 0-100

Paste a keyword + country — score 0-100, volume, CPC, competition, search intent, 12-month history. DataForSEO native KD.

SERP Checker

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See top 10 results for any query × country

Paste a keyword + pick a country — we return the live top 10 with positions, titles, URLs. scrape.do + SerpAPI for double free-tier.

Keyword Rank Checker

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Check your domain's position for any keyword

Domain + keyword + country → your live top-10 position + the full top-10 SERP for context. Subdomains matched.

SERP Overview

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Top 10 + per-URL authority + your/competitor highlighting

Live top 10 enriched with OpenPageRank authority on every ranking domain. Optional inputs to highlight your domain + competitor domains in the result table. Free.

Backlinks + authority

Backlink counts, broken links, domain authority equivalents.

Free Backlink Checker

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See top 20 backlinks to any domain

Enter a domain — we return the 20 strongest backlinks (one per referring domain) with anchor, source page, rank, dofollow/nofollow.

Broken Link Checker

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Find broken backlinks pointing at you

Enter your domain — we surface 4xx pages that still receive inbound links. Reclaim with a 301 redirect or page restore.

Website Authority Checker

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Get a DR-equivalent score for any domain

Enter a domain — we return its authority score 0-100 + PageRank + global popularity rank. Powered by OpenPageRank (free).

Utilities

Quick checks that don't fit anywhere else.

Word Counter

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Count words, characters, reading time, Flesch

Paste any text — words, characters (with/without spaces), sentences, paragraphs, reading + speaking time, Flesch score. 100% client-side.

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