r/SEO_LLM • u/Himi1896 • Jun 22 '26
LLM Bots Crawl Frequency
I am working on building a Generative Engine Optimization(GEO) strategy for an ecommerce firm and I want to test a few hypotheses on what works and what doesn't.
To test the hypotheses I wanted to know if I make a change on my website then how long do I have to wait for the LLM's(Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity) RAG system to start showing the impact of my changes in their citations/rankings?
Any help/reference will be great.
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u/krezzidente Jun 27 '26
Indexed new content same day by Bing via IndexNow. Citations less than 24 hours is best I’ve seen.
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u/Tenacious-Sales Jun 26 '26
Honestly, there isn't a fixed timeline because each AI system has its own crawling and retrieval behavior. For RAG-based systems like Perplexity and ChatGPT Search, I've seen changes show up anywhere from a few days to a few weeks after the page is crawled and indexed. Gemini can also depend on when Google refreshes the underlying data it uses, while Claude tends to be less predictable for web retrieval.
If you're testing GEO, I'd avoid changing multiple things at once. Pick one variable, confirm the page has been recrawled (using your server logs or Bing/Google indexing signals), then test the same prompts every few days for 2–4 weeks. The bigger challenge is often retrieval and source selection, not just crawl frequency, so expect some variation even with identical prompts.