Awesome GEO

Best free profile sites for AI assistants, ranked

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Awesome GEO scored 157 free platforms out of 100 on 11 November 2026, and 75 of them score 75 or more. GitHub and LinkedIn Articles lead at 98. The table below ranks the 30 highest scorers and shows which of four AI crawlers each platform’s robots.txt allows.

How this was measured

Awesome GEO builds each score from six parts: crawl access for AI crawlers, indexability, popularity (Tranco rank), fit for the questions people ask assistants, authority (Open PageRank) and link value. Every platform in the catalog lets you create a profile, listing or post for free.

A script fetches each platform’s robots.txt file and tests it against each AI crawler’s user agent. It repeats the check every Monday at 06:00 UTC. The table uses four user agents: OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and GPTBot. “Blocked” means the platform’s robots.txt disallows that user agent for the profile page or home page that was tested, and “allowed” means it does not. A platform with no robots.txt file counts as allowed. A robots.txt that could not be fetched counts as no reading.

The raw data is in the deeflect/awesome-geo repository on GitHub under a CC0-1.0 licence. Awesome GEO is built and maintained by Dmitry (Dee) Kargaev, a design engineer and independent GEO researcher in Los Angeles.

The 30 highest-scoring platforms

The full table of 157 platforms lists every score. The rows below are the top 30 as scored on 11 November 2026.

RankPlatformCategoryScoreLink typeEffortOAI-SearchBotClaude-SearchBotPerplexityBotGPTBot
1GitHubDeveloper Profiles98dofollowlowallowedallowedallowedallowed
2LinkedIn ArticlesContent Syndication98nofollowlowallowedallowedallowedallowed
3WikipediaKnowledge Bases93nofollowhardallowedallowedallowedallowed
4HuggingFaceDeveloper Profiles91dofollowlowallowedallowedallowedallowed
5SourceForgeDeveloper Profiles91mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
6BitbucketDeveloper Profiles90mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
7DEV.toDeveloper Profiles89nofollowlowallowedallowedallowedallowed
8PyPIDeveloper Profiles89dofollowlowallowedallowedallowedallowed
9YouTubeSocial Profiles89nofollowlowallowedallowedallowedallowed
10AngelList / WellfoundBusiness Directories88dofollowmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
11Better Business BureauBusiness Directories88mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
12PackagistDeveloper Profiles88mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
13SubstackContent Syndication88dofollowlowallowedallowedallowedallowed
14BloggerContent Syndication87mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
15GitLabDeveloper Profiles87dofollowlowallowedallowedallowedallowed
16NuGetDeveloper Profiles87mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
17ReplitDeveloper Profiles87nofollowlowallowedallowedallowedallowed
18DiscordSocial Profiles86mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
19FoursquareBusiness Directories86mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedblocked
20LinktreeSocial Profiles86mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
21ORCIDKnowledge Bases86mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
22Read the DocsDeveloper Profiles86mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
23Semantic ScholarKnowledge Bases86mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
24TelegramSocial Profiles86mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
25WordPress.comContent Syndication86mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
26IssuuContent Syndication85mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
27JSFiddleDeveloper Profiles85mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
28RubyGemsDeveloper Profiles85mixedmediumallowedallowedallowedallowed
29About.meSocial Profiles84dofollowlowallowedallowedallowedallowed
30HashnodeDeveloper Profiles84dofollowlowallowedallowedallowedallowed

Foursquare, at rank 19, shows GPTBot as blocked and the other three crawlers as allowed.

Top platform by category

Awesome GEO groups the 157 platforms into nine categories. The highest scorer in each is below.

CategoryPlatformsTop platformScore
Developer Profiles29GitHub98
Content Syndication24LinkedIn Articles98
Knowledge Bases8Wikipedia93
Social Profiles27YouTube89
Business Directories27AngelList / Wellfound88
Community Platforms13Slashdot84
Social Bookmarking8Digg79
Design Portfolios9Awwwards78
Niche Directories12Contra76

Findings

Across the 157 platforms Awesome GEO scored, 75 score 75 or more, 68 score 50 to 74 and 14 score under 50, and the scores run from 36 to 98.

Of the 157 platforms, 120 have a mixed link type, 23 are nofollow and 14 are dofollow.

Setting up a profile takes medium effort on 129 of the 157 platforms, low effort on 27 and hard effort on 1.

In the robots.txt readings, 102 of the 157 platforms allow all four of OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and GPTBot.

Among the 30 highest-scoring platforms, 5 give nofollow links and 8 give dofollow links.

Limits

The score ranks where a profile can be read and found. It does not measure how often an AI assistant cites a platform.

The check reads robots.txt only. It does not see blocks made by a firewall, a CDN, a login wall or rate limiting, and it does not show whether a crawler obeys the file. Robots.txt rules can also differ by path, so a platform that blocks the tested page may allow other pages.

Of the 157 platforms, 147 were last checked on 11 November 2026. The other 10 were last checked on 26 March 2026: Chamber of Commerce, Clutch, CodeSandbox, MuckRack, Observable, Stack Overflow, Tumblr, XenForo Community, Yellow Pages and npm.

Revisions

  • 11 November 2026: first version of this page, read from the Awesome GEO catalog.