When Claude searches the web, it searches Brave.
Ask Claude something recent and it runs a web search, then cites what it finds. That search comes from Brave Search, which has its own index of the web. It doesn’t reuse Google’s. If your site isn’t in Brave’s index, Claude’s search can’t find it.
Someone asks Claude
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Claude searches Brave
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Brave checks its index
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Invisible
Ranking on Google doesn’t help here. Claude’s search never sees your page.
Citable
Your page can show up when someone asks Claude about your topic or your product.
How we know: in March 2025 Anthropic added Brave Search to its public list of subprocessors. Claude’s web search tool also has a parameter called BraveSearchParams, and testers got the same citations from Claude as from Brave for the same search (TechCrunch, 21 Mar 2025).
Anthropic hasn’t officially announced it, so this could change. Getting indexed on Brave costs nothing and takes a minute either way.
Submit your URL. It’s that simple.
Open search.brave.com/submit-url
There’s no login, no account and no console. It’s just one box.
The real form: “Insert the URL to be re-fetched”.
Paste your full URL and click Submit
Start with your homepage (https://yoursite.com), then do the pages you most want people to find: pricing, your main tool page, your best blog post. One URL per submit.
Re-submit when a page changes
Brave describes this form as a way to make it re-fetch a page. Changed your title, pricing or copy? Submit the page again so Brave reads the new version.
Submitting doesn’t guarantee indexing. Just like Google Search Console, Brave can still skip pages with thin or low-quality content. Submitting is step one. The next pages cover the rest.
Search site:yoursite.com on Brave.
Go to search.brave.com and search site:yoursite.com. Everything that shows up is in Brave’s index. Here’s mine:
Real Brave results for site:sanskartiwari.io, 25 Oct 2026.
Googlebot blocked Brave follows Googlebot’s rules. If robots.txt blocks Googlebot, Brave won’t crawl you either.
noindex tag Look for <meta name="robots" content="noindex">. This tag is how Brave delists a page.
Thin page A few lines of text, or a blank “coming soon” page, often gets skipped. Add real content.
No links in A brand-new site that nothing links to is hard to discover. Next page.
Crawlers follow links. Be on the path.
Search engines send out spiders (web crawlers). A spider lands on a site, follows every link on it, then follows the links on those pages, and keeps going. If no site links to yours, the spider has no path to you. A new site with zero links is invisible.
Brave’s own crawler page: no special user agent, Googlebot rules apply, and part of its discovery comes from opt-in Brave browser users (the Web Discovery Project).
Launch on directories
Product Hunt, launch lists and startup directories. Each one is a public page with a link to you.
Get a few real backlinks
Founder-story sites, guest posts, podcast show notes. Pick sites that already get crawled a lot.
Link from your profiles
GitHub README, LinkedIn articles, X bio, YouTube descriptions. All of them get crawled.
Get real visitors
Brave browser users who opt in help Brave discover pages people actually visit. Share your link.
