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GoDaddy Website Builder and AI search: what crawlers meet, and what to change

GoDaddy's builder now writes an llms.txt and LocalBusiness markup for you, and gives you no robots.txt or head code at all. The win is in content, and in profiles elsewhere.
AI crawlers

What AI crawlers meet on GoDaddy Website Builder

Websites + Marketing, GoDaddy's builder, serves a robots.txt with no rules — User-agent: * and a Sitemap line — so every AI crawler can read the site, and it offers no way to change that. GoDaddy has said it will bring Cloudflare's AI crawler controls to its hosting; which products, and with what default, it has not documented yet. On the sites we read, the builder also serves an /llms.txt it writes itself: the site's name, a summary, its pages and its contact details. Airo AI Builder, GoDaddy's newer prompt-to-site product, is a different builder with its own SEO and AEO checks; this page is about Websites + Marketing.

robots.txt

User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
The file Websites + Marketing sites served when we read them.
On GoDaddy Website Builder

What you can change, and where

The changes a report asks for on the site itself, and llms.txt, which it does not.

  • Page titles & meta descriptions

    Possible: Yes
    Who: You, with steps
    Where: Dashboard → Marketing → SEO walks you through up to five pages; for the rest, the builder's Settings → SEO Settings.

    See what is live: Website metadata checker

  • JSON-LD schema

    Possible: Partly
    Who: You, with steps
    Where: LocalBusiness markup comes from the business info. There is no head code: the HTML section puts code inside an iframe, which is not part of the page.

    See what is live: Schema markup validator

  • robots.txt

    Possible: No
    Where: No editor and no AI setting.

    See what is live: robots.txt validator

  • A plain-text file like /llms.txt

    Possible: Partly
    Who: You, with steps
    Where: Written by the builder and not editable, on the sites we read.

    See what is live: llms.txt validator

  • New pages (FAQ, comparison, use case)

    Possible: Yes
    Who: We write; whoever runs the site puts it up
    Where: The normal page editor.

  • A new section on an existing page

    Possible: Yes
    Who: We write; whoever runs the site puts it up
    Where: The page it goes on, in the normal editor, beside the section it follows.
Checklist

Getting a GoDaddy Website Builder site ready to be cited

  1. 01

    Fill in the business info completely

    The builder's LocalBusiness markup and the contact part of its llms.txt come from it.

  2. 02

    Start with the profiles, not the site

    The report lists the profiles the engines cited that you can claim. Claim those first.

  3. 03

    Rewrite page titles to name the service and the place

    This you can do, and it is one of the few markup levers the builder gives you.

  4. 04

    Do not paste schema into an HTML section

    It renders inside an iframe, so an engine reading the page does not see it as the page's markup.

  5. 05

    Consider whether the platform is the constraint

    If the report's top three items are all blocked by the builder, that is a finding about the platform, and worth saying to the client plainly.

Check it yourself

Free, no account. Each reads what your site serves today, the way the crawlers do.

Publishing

Why we don’t publish to GoDaddy Website Builder

The builder offers little to publish into. An approved page is copied — rich text for the editor, HTML or Markdown — and pasted in, by you or by the site owner from a link you send them; once either of you gives us its address, we look for it on the site. Beyond that, the value here is knowing which of your findings you can act on at all.

Passcite on GoDaddy Website Builder

  • The reportLive

    It reads public pages, so it works the same on GoDaddy Website Builder as anywhere.

  • Pages for your approvalLive

    Written from the site's own words for the prompts it loses.

  • Publishing into GoDaddy Website BuilderCopied in

    Rich text, HTML or Markdown, looked for on the site once it is up.

  • ProofLive

    A week after a page goes live, its prompts are asked again.

FAQ

Questions

Does GoDaddy's website builder block AI crawlers?
No. Its robots.txt has no rules, and the builder has no setting to add any.
Can I add schema or an llms.txt to a GoDaddy site?
Not your own. The builder writes LocalBusiness markup from the business info and an llms.txt of its own; there is no head code or file access.
Is Airo the same as Websites + Marketing?
No. Airo AI Builder is GoDaddy's prompt-to-site product, with its own SEO and AEO checks. This page covers Websites + Marketing, the classic builder.
Do I need to give Passcite access to my GoDaddy Website Builder site?
No. The report reads public pages, the same as any visitor, and nothing we do connects to your GoDaddy Website Builder account.
What does Passcite cost?
The first report is free on a free account: one brand, 10 prompts, three engines, no card. Plans start at $49 a month for 150 credits — a prompt asked on three engines is one, an article 10.
Other platforms

See what the engines say about your GoDaddy Website Builder site

The prompts it loses, who was named instead, and what the site never answers.

10 free credits — your first report, 10 prompts across ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI Mode. A free account, no card. About 3 minutes.