Playbook
Common Crawl / training presence for Azure partner companies
A practical playbook for Azure marketers to improve training presence—with checks, fixes, and measurement.
Why training presence matters in Azure partners
Azure marketers cannot win AI shortlists on content alone if training presence is broken. Whether public archives like Common Crawl have seen your domain—a weak but useful signal that your site exists in corpora often used for model training and research.
In Azure partners, common blockers include: Product docs are behind login walls; robots.txt blocks AI search bots unintentionally; Comparison queries cite review sites instead of the brand. Incumbents and well-documented review sites often dominate AI answers until you publish crawlable comparison content.
What to check
- Domain appearance in Common Crawl indexes
- Public HTML that archives can fetch historically
- Stable canonical host (apex vs www consistency)
- No long-term block of archival crawlers you intend to allow
Azure partners-specific page priorities
- Changelog — ensure this URL is crawlable HTML with facts assistants can quote when answering “best Azure solutions for teams evaluating options”
- Status page — ensure this URL is crawlable HTML with facts assistants can quote when answering “best Azure solutions for teams evaluating options”
- Architecture overview — ensure this URL is crawlable HTML with facts assistants can quote when answering “best Azure solutions for teams evaluating options”
Fix guidance
Keep a durable public site, avoid indefinite archival blocks unless required, and focus primary effort on live AI search citations.
Deep dive: Common Crawl / training presence. Industry hub: AI visibility for Azure partner companies.
Measure with BatSignal
- Run a Visibility Scan on your Azure partners site
- Inspect the pillar tied to training presence
- Ship the prioritized fixes and copy-paste deliverables
- Re-verify within 30 days to confirm movement
Related
- Azure partners hub
- crawl access for Azure partners
- content readiness for Azure partners
- ChatGPT citations for Azure partners
- llms.txt for Azure partners
- Common Crawl / training presence
- All industries
FAQ
What is training presence for Azure partner companies?
Whether public archives like Common Crawl have seen your domain—a weak but useful signal that your site exists in corpora often used for model training and research. For Azure partners, this shows up when buyers ask “best Azure solutions for teams evaluating options” and when AI crawlers attempt to fetch your commercial pages.
How do we improve training presence?
Keep a durable public site, avoid indefinite archival blocks unless required, and focus primary effort on live AI search citations. Industry-specific must-have pages include Changelog, Status page, Architecture overview.
How does BatSignal score this?
Training presence (5% of BatSignal score). See the [methodology](/methodology) and related guide: /guides/common-crawl-training-presence.