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How to get cited by Claude

Updated June 29, 2026

To be cited by Claude, allow Anthropic's search and user agents (Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User), publish a clear quotable answer per page, and keep the page easy to extract. Claude's web search favors crawlable, directly-answering sources.

Step 1 — Allow the right agents

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

Step 2 — Be quotable

• Question in the title and H1.
• Answer in the first one or two sentences.
• Support with a table, list, or command block.

Step 3 — Verify

grep -Ei 'Claude-SearchBot|Claude-User' /var/log/your-access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head

Related pages: should I allow Claude-SearchBot, how to get cited by ChatGPT, Claude robots.txt guide.

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