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AI Bot Access Rules

search What we check

Whether robots.txt has explicit rules for each major AI bot, including GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, and others.

build How to fix

  1. 1 Add explicit User-agent rules for each AI bot in robots.txt.
  2. 2 To allow: User-agent: GPTBot / Allow: /.
  3. 3 To block training crawlers while allowing search bots, set rules per bot.
  4. 4 Review access for all bots: GPTBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Bingbot, Googlebot.

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