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Your robots.txt might be hiding your site from ChatGPT. Here's how to check in 10 minutes

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A lot of sites added this to robots.txt some time in the last two years: User -agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User -agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User -agent: * Disallow: /api/ That's a reasonable choice if you don't want your content used to train models. But many teams also have a CDN rule, a WAF setti…

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  1. 2026-10-08 11:37 · DEV Community — AI
    Your robots.txt might be hiding your site from ChatGPT. Here's how to check in 10 minutes

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