GEO Know-How

How ChatGPT Deep Research reads your site

What server logs reveal when long-running research agents fetch, revisit, and cite your pages.

Jun 22 2026

Deep Research-style agents don't behave like a single Googlebot hit. Logs show bursts of user-agent fetches, revisits to hub pages, and selective reading of docs-like URLs.

Implications

Critical explanations should be in static, crawlable HTML
Hub pages and clear IA help agents navigate
Blocked user-query bots break 'summarize this URL' and research flows

Correlate Deep Research citations in Anny with log lines for the same URLs to see whether access or content quality is the bottleneck.