Seotal Research

SEO Research and Data

We crawl, test and count Southeast Asian websites ourselves, then publish the findings with the full method and the raw data.

Our own dataEvery figure comes from fetches, tests or counts we ran, dated to the day.

Method in fullEach study states its sample, funnel, tools and limits, so the numbers can be checked.

Free to citeDatasets are CC BY 4.0. Use the figures and charts with a link to the study.

Studies

Which Southeast Asian Websites Block AI Crawlers? A robots.txt Study of Top Domains (2026)

September 28, 2026

Which Southeast Asian Websites Block AI Crawlers? A robots.txt Study of Top Domains (2026)

We read robots.txt on 3,000 top Southeast Asian domains. 12.4% block GPTBot, 2.2% block OAI-SearchBot, and Cloudflare wrote 61% of the AI blocks.

Sample: 3,000 top domains, 500 per country
Method: robots.txt and llms.txt read on every domain, parsed to RFC 9309

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Data rankings

Top 10 Countries With the Best SEOs in the World [2026] 57 countries scored on three signals. SEO award wins, conference speakers and Clutch firm counts. 7 Best Countries for SEO Specialists to Find Work [2026] 7 countries ranked on four pillars. LinkedIn SEO job counts, Glassdoor pay and work visa salary floors. Top 10 Countries With the Highest SEO Salaries [2026] 21 countries, SEO specialist pay. Glassdoor salary estimates converted at ECB reference rates.

Writing about SEO in Southeast Asia? We can share custom cuts of any dataset, or answer questions about the method.

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