A file that tells web crawlers which pages they can or cannot access.
Robots.txt is a text file at a website's root that provides instructions to web crawlers about which pages to access or ignore. With AI crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot, robots.txt decisions affect whether your content can be used for AI training or retrieval. Understanding robots.txt implications is important for AI visibility strategy.
We audit robots.txt configurations to ensure optimal AI crawler access.
Blocking AI crawlers in robots.txt prevents your content from being used in AI responses. This is a fundamental AI visibility decision.
Allowing GPTBot access: 'User-agent: GPTBot Allow: /'
Blocking all AI crawlers from certain sections
Selectively managing crawler access
If you want AI visibility, generally no. Some publishers block for content control reasons, but this sacrifices visibility.
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot are key ones. We can audit your configuration for optimal AI access.
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