FAQ

ZipTie.dev shows you how well your brand performs across today’s top AI search engines: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity.

Use your dashboard to quickly see where you’re winning in AI search and spot opportunities to improve your visibility where it matters most.

ZipTie:

• Tracks whether your brand is mentioned in AI-generated answers
• Analyzes the sentiment of these mentions
• Identifies if your domain is listed as a source for AI answers (citations)
• Compares your AI search visibility against competitors – giving you a complete picture of your AI search performance

ZipTie assigns an AI success score to each query you track, helping you identify which ones need immediate attention.

We analyze both visibility metrics and commercial potential, so you know exactly which optimizations will more likely bring in new customers.

The frequency of checks depends on your preferences. You can set up daily updates if needed.

For most projects, we recommend weekly updates, but you may want more frequent checks for queries you’re actively optimizing.

ZipTie provides a variety of information about AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity results, including:

• Was an AI Overview generated for a set of queries
• Text of AI Overview, ChatGPT & Perplexity responses
• Is your domain listed as a source for AI search?
• A full list of sources chosen by AI Search engines
• A screenshot of the AI Overview

Google doesn’t generate AI Overviews for all queries. There are some specific types of queries that Google is very hesitant to generate AI Overviews for, such as news-related queries.

What we recommend is transforming your queries into ones that have higher chances of triggering AI Overviews. For instance, there’s a low chance Google will show an AIO for “SEO,” but there are much higher chances that AI Overviews will be shown for queries with clearer intent, such as “what is SEO,” “what are top SEO agencies,” or “pros and cons of SEO services.”

We have our own query enhancer you can use while adding queries – its job is to transform queries to increase the chances of AI Overviews appearing.

This discrepancy can occur for several reasons:

• Your account may not have AI Overviews enabled. Ensure your IP address is US-based.
• Personalization can play a massive role.
• Google’s capacity limits: this is our understanding; if resources are low, AI Overviews might not be generated.
• Google may have stopped generating AI Overviews for that specific query.

The same reasons can apply if ZipTie shows no AI Overview but your manual check does.

At present, ZipTie allows you to check AI Overviews in 11 countries:

• USA
• UK
• Canada
• Australia
• India
• Brazil
• Japan
• Singapore
• Poland
• Germany
• Spain

If you need tracking in additional countries, please fill out this form.

Currently, the best (most accurate way) to track AI Overviews is by using real Google accounts. 

At ZipTie.dev, we use this method.

We use real Google accounts, not lab accounts.

ZipTie offers tons of useful features:

• Monitor your brand in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity
• Track which queries generate AI mentions of your brand
• Compare your AI search visibility against competitors
• Analyze AI answer sentiment and source attribution

On top of that, Ziptie.dev offers SEO-related features:

• A full list of unindexed URLs
• Performance metrics, such as rendering time
• Analysis of how JavaScript changes content
• Google Search Console integration to show you insights about traffic

• You can monitor your brand visibility across major AI search platforms (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity)
• You can track specific competitors to see how they appear in AI search results
• Our query generator helps you discover relevant queries to monitor
• You get AI success scores that help prioritize which queries to optimize first
• You can see sentiment analysis of how AI talks about your brand
• Our dashboard makes it easy to spot trends and opportunities in AI search
• Unlike some competitors, we offer both weekly reports and more frequent updates for queries you’re actively optimizing

Yes! If you need help understanding your AI search performance or developing strategies to improve your brand’s visibility in AI-generated answers, feel free to contact us!

Our team can help you identify why your brand might not be appearing in AI search results and recommend specific approaches to improve your visibility across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity.

You need to visit the Profile page and then click on Change Plan.

You can then select the plan that fits your needs best.

The default user agent is the same as Chrome. However, you can specify a custom user agent while creating or editing a Project (this is useful when your server blocks ZipTie.dev).

Default desktop User-agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/X.X.X.X Safari/537.36
Where X is the current version of Chrome used by the ZipTie

Default mobile user-agent: 
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/X.X.X.X Mobile Safari/537.36
Where X is the current version of Chrome used by the ZipTie

Yes!

We present additional information about the URLs, such as:

• – Status code, indexability
• – Number of words (total number of words on a given page, excluding HTML markup and comments)
• – H1 tags, Title tags
• – Various performance metrics, including rendering time, CPU used 
• – Core Web Vitals metrics (Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift)

ZipTie will check which URLs in the sitemaps you provided, aren’t indexed in Google. By default, ZipTie will check all URLs in sitemaps. There is one exception though: if you limit the number of URLs, ZipTie will choose URLs randomly to fit into the limits.

Example: let’s assume there are 10k URLs in your sitemaps:

• • – if you set limit to 10k, ZipTie will check all URLs
  • – if you set limit to 1k, ZipTie will choose 1k randomly
  • – if you set limit to 100k, ZipTie will check all URLs and return 90k surplus credits

ZipTie will check which pages from your custom list of URLs aren’t indexed in Google.
Useful if you want to check very specific URLs. For instance, when you want to check a list of the most important products in your ecommerce store, or the latest news from your website. 

Your list should only contain URLs you want to check, separated with newlines, and without commas.
The list can be provided in two ways:

• • – Copy-paste your list
  • – Upload a TXT file

Before creating an audit ZipTie will try to check whether the URLs you have provided are eligible for checks.

ZipTie verifies the URL structure and whether the connection to the website is successful.

If you are certain that the URL is correct, it is possible that the website protection systems are effectively blocking ZipTie from accessing it. To solve this problem, you may need to add a certain User Agent to your domain whitelist, and pass it to ZipTie (in the Custom User Agent field in the Project advanced settings).

Contact us if the problem persists.

• ZipTie currently supports XML and RSS sitemaps only.
  If you have a TXT or HTML sitemap, extract the URLs and paste them into the URL list mode.
• Ensure that your sitemap is valid.  The easiest way to ensure your sitemap is valid is to check it’s validity via Google Search Console, or by checking the sitemap by an SEO crawler.

Before indexing check, ZipTie checks if a page is indexable (eligible for indexing). ZipTie will mark a page as not indexable if one of the following cases occurs:

• – A page is returning an HTTP status code other than 200
• – A page is canonicalized to another page
• – A page is blocked by robots.txt rules
• – A page has got a “noindex” in a meta tag or in a server’s HTTP header

• – With JavaScript Rendering enabled, our browsers execute JavaScript on every single page. It’s crucial for JavaScript-based websites
• – JavaScript Rendering mode is only available with Inspection Mode enabled
• – With this mode enabled, ZipTie renders pages the same way your browser does, so the audit can take longer

• – Monitoring lets you track the indexing of URLs in a given audit over time
• – You can easily detect if and when Google deindexed your URLs
• – Enabling monitoring for audit means ZipTie will perform automatic checks of it in the interval of your choice – for example, every 7 days
• – Credits will be used at the beginning of every check
• – Monitoring can be enabled or disabled at any moment
• – The number of possible monitored audits depends on your subscription plan.

• – In this field, you can specify how many times per second ZipTie will send requests to your website
• – Higher values mean faster checking and denser traffic on your site during the check. The default rate is 4 requests per second
• – When the server commonly returns 429 or 5xx HTTP status codes, try lowering the number of requests per second

– The limit depends on the plan you use. For Advanced plan you can run analyses of up to 100 000 URLs per audit. If the limit isn’t enough for you, please contact our support

• It depends on the plan you use. 

Currently, you can run 5 audits at the same time
Additionally, you can have up to 5 audits with monitoring enabled

• – It heavily depends on:
  • – ZipTie’s current queue
  • – how fast your server responds
  • – the number of features you’ve enabled

• – You can track progress in the dashboard

The easiest way to accomplish this is to create two separate audits:

1. – The first for blog pages
2. – The second for product pages

Remember that when you launch an audit in the Crawl mode, you cannot restrict URLs to specific pages only. It can be done either via the URL list or Sitemap mode (just remember to paste URLs or sitemaps containing blog pages or product pages only).

• – If you choose the Sitemap mode, ZipTie will analyze 100k URLs randomly chosen out of 100 sitemaps
• – If you choose the Crawl mode, ZipTie will run a crawl and stop it when it reaches 100k URLs. Then it extracts only indexable URLs

• – The cost of an Audit is determined by two factors:
  • – the number of URLs
  • – set of enabled features

• – The base cost is 1 credit per 1 URL
• – Enabling Inspection Mode increases the cost by 1 credit per URL (total 2 credits per URL)
• – Enabling JavaScript Rendering increases to cost by 1 credit per URL (total 3 credits per URL)
• – If fewer URLs are found than specified, the surplus credits will be returned to your account after the check is finished

• – Due to infrastructure challenges, AI Search monitoring is more expensive, it costs 25 credits per check. Meaning that checking AI Overviews + Perplexity + ChatGPT will cost 25 credits in total.

There is no one to rule to fix them all. We try to share our knowledge about the topic based on our research and experience to make fixing these issues easier.

Here are a few of our articles that you may find helpful:

• – Index Coverage Statuses finally explained. In the article, Tomek Rudzki explains the causes of the most popular indexing issues & how to fix them
• – Ultimate Guide to Indexing SEO – just about everything you need to know about indexing condensed in a single article

If you need professional indexing consulting, feel free to contact us!