[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":557},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-ai-search-names-uptimerobot":3,"blog-siblings":439},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":420,"date":421,"description":422,"draft":423,"extension":424,"image":425,"meta":426,"navigation":427,"path":428,"readingTime":429,"seo":430,"stem":431,"tags":432,"updated":437,"__hash__":438},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-ai-search-names-uptimerobot.md","Why AI search keeps naming UptimeRobot","devin",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":400},"minimark",[10,14,23,26,29,34,37,127,130,133,137,140,201,204,207,210,214,217,220,223,227,230,233,236,240,243,268,272,275,278,282,293,301,305,354,358,361,364,367,371,376,379,383,386,390,393,397],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Four patterns go with UptimeRobot's place in AI answers: it ranks on page 1 of Google in 36 of the 112 searches that showed an AI Overview, the answers often put \"free\" next to its name, ChatGPT names it even when it cites nothing, and the ChatGPT app cites UptimeRobot's own comparison articles. Across 40 buyer questions, Google's AI Overviews named it in 68% (54–81%) of answers and the ChatGPT app in 63% (48–77%).",[11,15,16,17,22],{},"No other tool made the top group on both engines (the leader, plus any tool the data can't separate from it). Better Stack matched it in the ChatGPT app, at 68% (56–81%), and had 38% (25–50%) on Google. The numbers come from ",[18,19,21],"a",{"href":20},"\u002Fblog\u002Fuptime-monitoring-tools-ai-search","the three-day study of uptime monitoring tools in AI answers",", where every question was put to both engines on 13, 14 and 15 October 2026.",[11,24,25],{},"I went back into those answers to see what they cite around UptimeRobot, and compared that with Google's normal results for the same searches. The four patterns go with UptimeRobot's position, but the data can't show what causes it.",[27,28],"cta-inline",{},[30,31,33],"h2",{"id":32},"it-ranks-on-google-for-many-of-these-questions","It ranks on Google for many of these questions",[11,35,36],{},"Each saved Google search came with its first page of normal results, so I could check who ranked for the same question that produced the AI Overview.",[38,39,40,59],"table",{},[41,42,43],"thead",{},[44,45,46,50,53,56],"tr",{},[47,48,49],"th",{},"Site",[47,51,52],{},"On page 1 (of 112 searches)",[47,54,55],{},"In the top 3",[47,57,58],{},"Median best position",[60,61,62,77,90,102,115],"tbody",{},[44,63,64,68,71,74],{},[65,66,67],"td",{},"uptimerobot.com",[65,69,70],{},"36",[65,72,73],{},"28",[65,75,76],{},"3",[44,78,79,82,85,88],{},[65,80,81],{},"site24x7.com",[65,83,84],{},"9",[65,86,87],{},"6",[65,89,76],{},[44,91,92,95,97,100],{},[65,93,94],{},"betterstack.com",[65,96,84],{},[65,98,99],{},"0",[65,101,87],{},[44,103,104,107,110,113],{},[65,105,106],{},"pingdom.com",[65,108,109],{},"8",[65,111,112],{},"4",[65,114,112],{},[44,116,117,120,122,125],{},[65,118,119],{},"statuscake.com",[65,121,109],{},[65,123,124],{},"1",[65,126,87],{},[11,128,129],{},"When uptimerobot.com was on page 1, the AI Overview cited one of its pages in 29 of 36 answers. When it wasn't, the Overview cited it in 15 of 76. And of the 53 UptimeRobot links Google cited, 24 were the exact page ranking in positions 1 to 5 of that same search.",[11,131,132],{},"Google also named UptimeRobot in 47 of the 76 searches where its site wasn't on page 1, and 37 of the 79 Google answers that named it cited no UptimeRobot page. YouTube was cited in 17 of those 37, alongside Reddit threads and list pages on other sites, several of them other vendors'. Across all 79 Google answers naming UptimeRobot, 28 different YouTube videos were cited, and 3 of them were on a channel named UptimeRobot.",[30,134,136],{"id":135},"the-answers-put-free-next-to-its-name","The answers put \"free\" next to its name",[11,138,139],{},"I counted how often the word \"free\" appears within 150 characters of each tool's name, in the answers that name the tool.",[38,141,142,155],{},[41,143,144],{},[44,145,146,149,152],{},[47,147,148],{},"Tool",[47,150,151],{},"Google AI Overviews",[47,153,154],{},"ChatGPT app",[60,156,157,168,179,190],{},[44,158,159,162,165],{},[65,160,161],{},"UptimeRobot",[65,163,164],{},"56 of 79 answers",[65,166,167],{},"42 of 76",[44,169,170,173,176],{},[65,171,172],{},"Uptime Kuma",[65,174,175],{},"20 of 47",[65,177,178],{},"25 of 42",[44,180,181,184,187],{},[65,182,183],{},"Better Stack",[65,185,186],{},"15 of 44",[65,188,189],{},"36 of 82",[44,191,192,195,198],{},[65,193,194],{},"Pingdom",[65,196,197],{},"6 of 36",[65,199,200],{},"5 of 27",[11,202,203],{},"Uptime Kuma is open-source software you run on your own server at no charge, so its rate is no surprise. UptimeRobot is a paid product with a free plan, and on Google it comes out higher still.",[11,205,206],{},"Only 2 of the 40 questions want a free or cheap tool (\"Is there a good free uptime monitoring service?\" and one about cheap SMS alerts). UptimeRobot was named in all 6 answers to them on each engine. At least 50 of the 56 Google answers with \"free\" near its name came from the other 38 questions.",[11,208,209],{},"UptimeRobot's pricing page on 15 October 2026 listed a free plan with \"50 monitors\" at a \"5 min. monitoring interval\". Better Stack's free plan, the same day, listed \"10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page\".",[30,211,213],{"id":212},"chatgpt-names-it-without-citing-anything","ChatGPT names it without citing anything",[11,215,216],{},"The study also asked the same questions through OpenAI's API, where the model has web search available and decides whether to use it. In 78 of the 120 answers to the 40 questions, it cited no source, so those answers most likely came from what the model already knew.",[11,218,219],{},"UptimeRobot was named in 50 of those 78. Pingdom, which has sold uptime monitoring since at least 2006, was named in 55, and Better Stack in 18.",[11,221,222],{},"That fits a name that has been around a long time. UptimeRobot has been online since 2010 (its own llms.txt says \"Founded in 2010\", and the earliest archived copy of the site is from January 2010). In the US, \"uptimerobot\" gets about 6,600 searches a month, against about 4,000 for \"betterstack\" and \"better stack\" together (DataForSEO, September 2026). Better Stack ranks for more keywords, about 19,600 to UptimeRobot's 11,200, but DataForSEO estimates UptimeRobot's organic traffic at about six times Better Stack's.",[30,224,226],{"id":225},"the-chatgpt-app-cites-uptimerobots-own-pages","The ChatGPT app cites UptimeRobot's own pages",[11,228,229],{},"In the ChatGPT app, 72 of the 76 answers that named UptimeRobot had uptimerobot.com in their source lists. Some of those links can be the one the app attaches to a product's name in the text. Across all 120 app answers, the homepage was cited in 58, the pricing page in 18, and an UptimeRobot article titled \"11 best uptime monitoring tools compared\" in another 18.",[11,231,232],{},"That article is one of UptimeRobot's comparison pages, and 28 of the 76 answers cited at least one of them. In the three I opened, UptimeRobot is listed first.",[11,234,235],{},"Better Stack's site turns up in the same answers: betterstack.com was in the source lists of 58 of those 76, including Better Stack's own page comparing itself with UptimeRobot. On Google, where UptimeRobot leads alone, the Overviews cited uptimerobot.com in 44 of their 112 answers and betterstack.com in none.",[30,237,239],{"id":238},"what-uptimerobots-pages-have","What UptimeRobot's pages have",[11,241,242],{},"I fetched UptimeRobot's most-cited pages on 15 October 2026. This data can't show whether any of it moves the numbers above, but it's what the pages carry:",[244,245,246,250,253,256,259,262,265],"ul",{},[247,248,249],"li",{},"The pages were server-rendered, as were the two Better Stack pages I fetched. The words arrive in the first response, so a crawler that skips JavaScript still reads them.",[247,251,252],{},"Structured data was on every UptimeRobot page I fetched: FAQ markup on 6 of the 8, Article markup on the articles. Better Stack's homepage and pricing page carried none.",[247,254,255],{},"The homepage headline reads \"Meet the #1 uptime monitoring service.\" The homepage is also the UptimeRobot page the ChatGPT app cited most, in 58 answers.",[247,257,258],{},"The three comparison articles show visible \"Updated\" dates, from July to October 2026.",[247,260,261],{},"UptimeRobot's llms.txt file is 159 lines long and includes a section headed \"Quick Monitor Setup (for AI Agents)\". Better Stack's \u002Fllms.txt returned 404, and Better Stack is level with UptimeRobot in the ChatGPT app.",[247,263,264],{},"A machine-readable pricing file, \u002Fpricing.md, is linked from the pricing page.",[247,266,267],{},"Articles carry \"Summarize in\" buttons that open ChatGPT, Google's AI, Claude or Perplexity with a request to summarize the article, with citations. The prompt doesn't ask the assistant to remember or recommend UptimeRobot.",[30,269,271],{"id":270},"better-stack-reached-page-1-but-no-ai-overview-cited-it","Better Stack reached page 1, but no AI Overview cited it",[11,273,274],{},"Better Stack's site reached page 1 in 9 of the 112 searches, mostly with comparison pages, at positions 4 to 9. Google's AI Overviews cited it in none of their 141 answers across all 50 questions in the study, counting the 10 \"alternatives\" questions left out of the shares above. Its robots.txt allows every crawler, and none of the pages I checked carry a \"nosnippet\" or noindex instruction.",[11,276,277],{},"One difference shows in the first table: uptimerobot.com was in the top 3 in 28 of the 112 searches, and betterstack.com in none. Better Stack's best position in these searches was 4. Whether Google's Overviews draw mostly on the top few results is a test for another study.",[30,279,281],{"id":280},"what-this-means-for-a-smaller-tool","What this means for a smaller tool",[244,283,284,287,290],{},[247,285,286],{},"Find out where you rank for the exact questions. In this category, 29 of the 44 Overviews that cited UptimeRobot came from searches where it was on page 1. Better Stack's pages ranked 4 to 9 in 9 searches and weren't cited in any of them.",[247,288,289],{},"Know which attribute the answers repeat about each competitor. For UptimeRobot it's \"free\": 56 of the 79 Google answers naming it had the word nearby. If one word follows a rival through most of its answers, check what your own pages say about it.",[247,291,292],{},"Open the pages the ChatGPT app cites for your category. Here its source lists included both leaders' own sites, and 28 of the 76 answers naming UptimeRobot cited one of UptimeRobot's comparison articles. If your site isn't among the sources, start by reading the ones that are.",[11,294,295,296,300],{},"Shruwd, the tool we are building, covers this situation with a finding called ",[18,297,299],{"href":298},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffindings\u002Ffindings-reference","\"A competitor owns this prompt\"",". It fires, on the paid plans, when over 30 days and at least ten answers a competitor is named in at least half the answers to one of your questions while you're named in 15% or fewer, the two ranges don't overlap, and one of the competitor's own pages is among the sources. It then lists the sections of the competitor's cited pages, other than its pricing, product and help pages, that your page for the question has no heading for. It also names the lists, directories and threads the answers read.",[30,302,304],{"id":303},"how-i-counted","How I counted",[244,306,307,318,324,330,336,342,348],{},[247,308,309,313,314,317],{},[310,311,312],"strong",{},"Answers:"," the 40 buyer questions from ",[18,315,316],{"href":20},"the study",", asked on three consecutive days: 112 Google AI Overview answers (the other 8 searches showed no Overview or were spelling-corrected), 120 ChatGPT app answers and 120 answers through OpenAI's API.",[247,319,320,323],{},[310,321,322],{},"Shares:"," the percentages come from the study, averaged over questions, and the figures in brackets are 95% ranges.",[247,325,326,329],{},[310,327,328],{},"Google rankings:"," the first page of normal results saved with each search, 6 to 10 results each. Nothing beyond page 1 was saved, so \"not on page 1\" can mean any position past the last result saved.",[247,331,332,335],{},[310,333,334],{},"Citations:"," the links an AI Overview lists as references, and the ChatGPT app's source list, which can also hold links attached to product names in the text.",[247,337,338,341],{},[310,339,340],{},"\"Free\" nearby:"," a case-insensitive match on the whole word, within 150 characters before or after the name, in the text a reader sees. A comparison table can put another tool's row within that distance, so read it as a proximity count.",[247,343,344,347],{},[310,345,346],{},"Pages:"," fetched on 15 October 2026 with a normal browser user agent.",[247,349,350,353],{},[310,351,352],{},"Search volumes and traffic:"," DataForSEO estimates for the United States.",[30,355,357],{"id":356},"what-this-cant-tell-you","What this can't tell you",[11,359,360],{},"Every section above describes a pattern across the same 40 questions, and none of them shows a cause. Because the questions repeat over three days, the 112 Google searches aren't 112 independent tests.",[11,362,363],{},"A tool with UptimeRobot's free plan and history in another category may not get the same result.",[11,365,366],{},"Other vendors' list pages were among Google's most-cited sources in answers naming UptimeRobot. I didn't open them, so where they rank UptimeRobot isn't checked here.",[30,368,370],{"id":369},"frequently-asked-questions","Frequently asked questions",[372,373,375],"h3",{"id":374},"why-does-chatgpt-recommend-uptimerobot-so-often","Why does ChatGPT recommend UptimeRobot so often?",[11,377,378],{},"In a study of 40 uptime-monitoring questions in October 2026, the ChatGPT app named UptimeRobot in 63% (48–77%) of its answers. Two patterns go with it. The app's sources included UptimeRobot's own site in 72 of the 76 answers that named it, and 28 of those answers cited one of UptimeRobot's comparison articles. The three I opened list UptimeRobot first. And through OpenAI's API, ChatGPT named UptimeRobot in 50 of 78 answers that cited no source, which points to a name the model already knows.",[372,380,382],{"id":381},"does-ranking-on-google-get-a-page-into-ai-overviews","Does ranking on Google get a page into AI Overviews?",[11,384,385],{},"In this study, the two went together. When uptimerobot.com was on the first page of Google's results for a question, the AI Overview cited one of its pages in 29 of 36 answers, against 15 of 76 when it wasn't. But Better Stack's pages reached page 1 at positions 4 to 9 and weren't cited once, so a first-page ranking alone didn't guarantee a citation.",[372,387,389],{"id":388},"what-does-uptimerobots-free-plan-include","What does UptimeRobot's free plan include?",[11,391,392],{},"On 15 October 2026, its pricing page offered 50 monitors with a 5-minute check interval at no cost, and left some features, such as SSL and domain-expiry monitoring, to the paid plans. Better Stack's free plan, from its own pricing page that day, lists 10 monitors and heartbeats and 1 status page.",[372,394,396],{"id":395},"does-an-llmstxt-file-explain-uptimerobots-position","Does an llms.txt file explain UptimeRobot's position?",[11,398,399],{},"This data can't show that it does. UptimeRobot has one, and Better Stack's \u002Fllms.txt returned a 404 on 15 October 2026, yet the two are level in the ChatGPT app, at 63% (48–77%) and 68% (56–81%).",{"title":401,"searchDepth":402,"depth":402,"links":403},"",3,[404,406,407,408,409,410,411,412,413,414],{"id":32,"depth":405,"text":33},2,{"id":135,"depth":405,"text":136},{"id":212,"depth":405,"text":213},{"id":225,"depth":405,"text":226},{"id":238,"depth":405,"text":239},{"id":270,"depth":405,"text":271},{"id":280,"depth":405,"text":281},{"id":303,"depth":405,"text":304},{"id":356,"depth":405,"text":357},{"id":369,"depth":405,"text":370,"children":415},[416,417,418,419],{"id":374,"depth":402,"text":375},{"id":381,"depth":402,"text":382},{"id":388,"depth":402,"text":389},{"id":395,"depth":402,"text":396},"Diagnostics","2026-10-19","In a 40-question study, UptimeRobot was the only uptime tool in the top group on both Google's AI Overviews and the ChatGPT app. Here is what goes with that.",false,"md","\u002Fimgs\u002Fwhy-ai-search-names-uptimerobot.jpg",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-ai-search-names-uptimerobot",10,{"title":5,"description":422},"blog\u002Fwhy-ai-search-names-uptimerobot",[433,434,435,436],"AI Overviews","ChatGPT","AI visibility","uptime monitoring",null,"I3Xcgd2suP-76d9UVII5Ns64dCNAFenmaSPJ8CLBTz8",[440,452,463,475,485,496,505,515,524,531,537,539,548],{"path":441,"title":442,"description":443,"date":444,"category":445,"image":446,"tags":447,"draft":423,"readingTime":451},"\u002Fblog\u002Fai-impressions-traffic-drop","AI impressions rising, traffic falling: what to check","Why Search Console can show AI impressions rising while organic clicks fall, what an AI impression counts, and how to check whether the answer named you.","2026-09-30","Measurement","\u002Fimgs\u002Fai-impressions-traffic-drop.jpg",[448,433,449,450],"Search Console","AI impressions","organic traffic",7,{"path":453,"title":454,"description":455,"date":456,"category":445,"image":457,"tags":458,"draft":423,"readingTime":462},"\u002Fblog\u002Fai-visibility","AI visibility: how to measure it, and why one number lies","AI visibility is a rate across repeated runs, so one score from one check tells you little. What to count, and how to tell a real change from noise.","2026-09-18","\u002Fimgs\u002Fai-visibility.jpg",[435,459,460,461],"measurement","share of voice","GEO",9,{"path":464,"title":465,"description":466,"date":467,"category":468,"image":469,"tags":470,"draft":423,"readingTime":474},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-ai-visibility-tools","Best AI visibility tools in 2026, and the catch with each","Nine AI visibility tools compared on price, AI engines, how often they run and how they collect answers, from each vendor's own pages, checked September 2026.","2026-09-21","Tools","\u002Fimgs\u002Fbest-ai-visibility-tools.jpg",[435,471,472,473],"AEO tools","GEO tools","tools",11,{"path":476,"title":477,"description":478,"date":467,"category":420,"image":479,"tags":480,"draft":423,"readingTime":462},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcloudflare-block-ai-bots","Cloudflare Block AI Bots: what changed, and what to check","Cloudflare replaced its Block AI Bots toggle on 15 September 2026. What the new settings do to Googlebot and ChatGPT, and how to see what it turns away.","\u002Fimgs\u002Fcloudflare-block-ai-bots.jpg",[481,482,483,484],"Cloudflare","AI crawlers","Bot Fight Mode","OAI-SearchBot",{"path":486,"title":487,"description":488,"date":456,"category":489,"image":490,"tags":491,"draft":423,"readingTime":495},"\u002Fblog\u002Fgeo-vs-seo","GEO vs SEO: what changed, what didn't, what to do first","How GEO differs from SEO, which GEO advice has evidence behind it, and two checks you can run on your own site today.","Guides","\u002Fimgs\u002Fgeo-vs-seo.jpg",[461,492,493,494],"SEO","AEO","AI search",13,{"path":497,"title":498,"description":499,"date":500,"category":489,"image":501,"tags":502,"draft":423,"readingTime":504},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-rank-in-chatgpt","How to rank in ChatGPT: what decides which sites it cites","Which OpenAI crawler to let in, where ChatGPT searches, what it can read on your page, and how to check your server logs for its visits.","2026-09-19","\u002Fimgs\u002Fhow-to-rank-in-chatgpt.jpg",[503,484,461,494],"ChatGPT SEO",8,{"path":506,"title":507,"description":508,"date":509,"category":420,"image":510,"tags":511,"draft":423,"readingTime":462},"\u002Fblog\u002Fjavascript-seo","JavaScript SEO: Google renders your pages, ChatGPT may not","Googlebot runs your JavaScript, and most AI fetchers don't. Who renders what in 2026, how to check your own pages, and how to fix them.","2026-10-13","\u002Fimgs\u002Fjavascript-seo.jpg",[512,513,482,434,514],"JavaScript SEO","SPA","server-side rendering",{"path":516,"title":517,"description":518,"date":456,"category":489,"image":519,"tags":520,"draft":423,"readingTime":474},"\u002Fblog\u002Fllm-seo","LLM SEO: five levers with evidence, and two without","Five LLM SEO levers with evidence behind them, graded by strength, and the reason schema markup and llms.txt aren't among them.","\u002Fimgs\u002Fllm-seo.jpg",[521,461,494,522,523],"LLM SEO","llms.txt","schema",{"path":525,"title":526,"description":527,"date":444,"category":445,"image":528,"tags":529,"draft":423,"readingTime":495},"\u002Fblog\u002Fprompt-tracking","Prompt tracking: which prompts to track, with 32 examples","Which prompts to track to see whether ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews name you: eight kinds, 32 examples across four businesses, and how many you need.","\u002Fimgs\u002Fprompt-tracking.jpg",[530,434,435,494],"Prompt tracking",{"path":20,"title":532,"description":533,"date":534,"category":445,"image":535,"tags":536,"draft":423,"readingTime":474},"Uptime monitoring tools in ChatGPT and AI Overviews","The tools Google's AI Overviews and the ChatGPT app named for 40 uptime-monitoring questions, asked once a day for three days, and how much the answers changed.","2026-10-16","\u002Fimgs\u002Fuptime-monitoring-tools-ai-search.jpg",[433,434,436,435],{"path":428,"title":5,"description":422,"date":421,"category":420,"image":425,"tags":538,"draft":423,"readingTime":429},[433,434,435,436],{"path":540,"title":541,"description":542,"date":543,"category":420,"image":544,"tags":545,"draft":423,"readingTime":547},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-chatgpt-recommends-your-competitor","Why ChatGPT recommends your competitor: 10 reasons","Ten reasons ChatGPT names a competitor instead of you, in the order to check them, each with a check you can run, the fix, and how strong the evidence is.","2026-09-26","\u002Fimgs\u002Fwhy-chatgpt-recommends-your-competitor.jpg",[434,435,546,494],"brand mentions",15,{"path":549,"title":550,"description":551,"date":509,"category":420,"image":552,"tags":553,"draft":423,"readingTime":429},"\u002Fblog\u002Fyc-startups-ai-crawlers","I scanned 500 YC startups to see if AI search can read them","I checked the robots.txt and homepage HTML of 500 YC B2B startups. 3 of 471 block an AI answer crawler. Empty JavaScript homepages are more common. What to check on your site.","\u002Fimgs\u002Fyc-startups-ai-crawlers.jpg",[482,554,555,484,556],"robots.txt","GPTBot","JavaScript",1792602559717]