Which AI crawlers should you allow in robots.txt? (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and more)
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AI assistants find and cite websites in two different ways. Some crawlers collect pages to train future models. Others fetch pages so an assistant can search the web and link to your site in an answer. Your robots.txt file can treat these differently, but only if you know what each user-agent does.…
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- 2026-10-10 14:44 · DEV Community — AI
Which AI crawlers should you allow in robots.txt? (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and more)