Discovery-first
Use this for public marketing sites that want maximum eligibility across Google, ChatGPT search, Apple, Perplexity, and open web datasets.
Choose a policy preset, add private paths, and generate copy-ready robots.txt rules for OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, Googlebot, Google-Extended, Applebot, PerplexityBot, and CCBot.
Crawler policy is a business decision. The safest free-traffic posture is usually to keep discovery open while controlling broad training use with specific user-agent tokens.
Use this for public marketing sites that want maximum eligibility across Google, ChatGPT search, Apple, Perplexity, and open web datasets.
Keep Googlebot, OAI-SearchBot, Applebot, and PerplexityBot open, while blocking GPTBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, and CCBot.
Keep core Google and Apple search crawling open, but block common AI/search-answer and training-oriented crawler tokens.
This page targets a more practical query than generic AI SEO advice. People searching for robots.txt examples often need an answer immediately, so a working generator has a stronger chance of earning bookmarks, mentions, and support-thread links.
Use this page when replying to questions about blocking GPTBot, allowing OAI-SearchBot, separating Googlebot from Google-Extended, or writing a robots.txt file for AI crawlers.
Read the robots.txt guideThe VPS preview logs crawler-like requests and publishes a live proof JSON file, so we can show that crawler policy pages are accessible and measurable.
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