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Warm-up

Pull AI crawlers directly to your pages instead of waiting days or weeks to be discovered.

Written by Niclas Aunin
Updated yesterday

1. What the Warm-up feature does

Warm-up is ALLMO's active discovery feature. Instead of waiting for AI crawlers to find your pages, warm-up sends repeated signals that pull PerplexityBot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, and ChatGPT-User directly to the URLs you care about.

Each warm-up runs as a 5-day cycle per model, with daily pushes that keep your content in front of the crawler long enough for it to be processed, not just skimmed.

2. Why accelerating AI crawler discovery matters

AI assistants can't cite what they haven't discovered. Without active warm-up, crawler discovery for a new domain can take anywhere from a few hours (for large, well-linked brands) to weeks, or never at all for smaller sites.

In our own case study on aicitationsgenerator.com, warm-up reduced time-to-first-crawl from "unknown, possibly never" to under 10 minutes for both ChatGPT and Perplexity. Control pages on the same domain without warm-up went 48+ hours with zero crawler activity.

Warm-up matters most for:

  • New domains with no crawl history

  • Time-sensitive content (launches, promotions, event pages, job posts)

  • Updated content where the old version is already indexed

  • Pages that Page Validation shows are not indexed

4. How to start the URL warm-up in ALLMO

Submit URLs

  1. Navigate to app.alllmo.ai/warm-up.

  2. Paste the URL you want to submit. To enter multiple URLs, paste each URL in a new line.

  3. The URL appears in your warm-up table.

Start a cycle

  • Click the + button next to a URL under either the Perplexity or ChatGPT column.

  • The cycle activates immediately and triggers its first push.

  • The column updates to show "Day 1 of 5", then progresses each day.

  • A success icon and date appear once the page is detected as indexed.

Track progress

Why 5 days?

AI bots do not reliably process content on first contact. They revisit pages over time. The repeated push design ensures your content gets enough exposure to be properly discovered and indexed.

Tracking progress

Once a cycle starts, the table shows the current status (e.g. “Day 1 of 5”) and updates daily. When a URL is successfully detected, a confirmation icon and date will appear. You can use search and sorting to manage larger URL lists.

Credits

  • 1 warm-up credit = 1 URL × 1 model × 5-day cycle

  • Running both ChatGPT and Perplexity for the same URL = 2 credits

5. How to get the most out of the LLM warm-up feature.

  • Cycle completed, page indexed: Good. Move on and monitor through Page Validation.

  • Cycle completed, page not indexed: The page was crawled but not added to the index. This usually signals a content or technical issue, such as thin content, noindex tags, blocked robots.txt rules, or very low perceived authority. Review the page before burning another credit.

  • Launch coordination: Warm up new landing pages the moment they go live, not a week later. Every day of invisibility is lost AI traffic.

  • Content refreshes: After any substantial update to a key page, re-warm it, to ensure crawlers process the updated content.

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