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Why AI search engines might be completely missing your new website

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When shipping a new side-project, most developers remember meta tags and sitemaps, but completely forget two silent killers: AI Crawler Directives ( robots.txt ) : Search engines are evolving into AI-first answers (SearchGPT, Claude, Perplexity). If your robots.txt does not explicitly handle bots l…

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  1. 2026-10-08 12:32 · DEV Community — AI
    Why AI search engines might be completely missing your new website

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