Articles about "AI crawler blocking"

Block GPTBot from training on your content with one robots.txt block. Exact configuration, verification steps, impersonator checks, and common mistakes.

GPTBot trains OpenAI's models; OAI-SearchBot powers ChatGPT search citations. Two separate crawlers, two separate robots.txt tokens — here's which one to block.

Should you block AI crawlers? Blocking training bots like GPTBot while allowing search bots is usually the smart middle path. Here's the honest 2026 guide.

Should you block PerplexityBot? The nuanced 2026 answer: allow it for cited referral traffic — Perplexity says it doesn't train models — unless you need a full opt-out from AI search.

Learn how to block Mistral AI crawlers (MistralAI-User) with robots.txt in 2026 — exact code, the three Mistral tokens, and when blocking helps or hurts.

Block AI crawlers on Ghost with a custom robots.txt in your theme, Cloudflare rules, or Code Injection. Step-by-step for all three methods, plus what to block and what to allow.

Block AI crawlers on Webflow with a custom robots.txt in Project Settings, page-level noindex, and staging protection. Full steps, example rules, and the limits to know.

Anthropic runs three crawlers — ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User — and blocking the wrong one erases you from Claude's answers. What each does, what blocking costs, and the exact robots.txt setup for no-training-yes-citations.

Learn to block AI crawlers on Django the reliable way: a root robots.txt file, separate staging rules, and log checks that prove bots stopped visiting.

Learn how to block AI crawlers on Weebly even though you cannot edit robots.txt directly. Hide pages, use meta tags, and block bots with Cloudflare.

DeepSeekBot collects your pages for AI training, but DeepSeek publishes no crawler docs, no IP list, and no verification method. Here is the robots.txt rule worth adding — and the firewall layer that actually enforces it.

Block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot and other AI crawlers at the server level with Nginx. Step-by-step map and if-directive rules, curl tests to prove the block works, and the mistakes that can take your whole site down.