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Technical AEO Guide
Understand AI crawler access, robots.txt rules and what allowing or blocking GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and other crawlers can mean for your site.
Quick answer
AI crawler access is controlled partly through robots.txt and other website directives, but each provider can use different crawlers for training, search, user-triggered retrieval, or indexing. Allowing a crawler does not guarantee inclusion in an AI answer, and blocking one crawler does not necessarily remove information already available elsewhere.
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Give AI retrieval systems clear facts, relationships, and structured context.
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A robots.txt file can allow or disallow crawler access to paths on your public website. Rules should protect private application areas while keeping public discovery pages available when that matches your policy.
Providers may operate separate bots for model training, search indexing, or user-triggered browsing. Policies and user-agent names can change over time.
Rofix's free AI Crawler Checker can inspect a public site's robots directives so you can catch accidental blocks quickly.
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