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Which AI crawlers do you allow in robots.txt, and which ones do you block?

John Carlsson · 16 October 2026 · 0 replies
OpenAI names separate user agents in its documentation: OAI-SearchBot indexes sites so they can appear in ChatGPT search features, while GPTBot gathers content that may be used to train its models.
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
The full answer on making a site ready for AI agents is here:
https://aiwebpageseo.com/blog/is-your-site-ai-agent-ready
Have you treated search bots and training bots differently in your own robots.txt, and why?
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