# theagenticseo — articles

Research, analysis and explanation of how AI systems crawl, index, and cite the web.

- [Most of the AI crawlers hitting this site are not AI crawlers](https://theagenticseo.com/articles/who-is-actually-crawling.md) — 2026-09-15 — Five days of verified server logs on a site with no audience. Of fourteen agents that identified themselves as AI crawlers, four survived verification. Three addresses claimed twelve identities each, and all three were port-scanning for exposed .env files.