Articles about "AI crawler control"

robots.txt tells crawlers where NOT to go. llms.txt tells AI systems what your site IS. Opposite jobs — here's what each file does and how to use both.

Blocking GPTBot may also block your ChatGPT citations: a GeoParrot census found 44.5% of GPTBot blockers accidentally block OAI-SearchBot too. Fix inside.

A practical robots.txt guide for Joomla and Drupal: where the file lives, which AI bots to block, copy-paste templates, testing tips, and .htaccess backup.

HubSpot CMS gives you a real robots.txt editor under SEO & Crawlers — if you override the defaults per domain. The exact clicks, the bot list, and the traps that undo the edit.

BigCommerce gives you a real robots.txt editor — but it has moved between interface versions. The current path, a store-ready AI-crawler file, and the traps that cost product pages their rankings.

PerplexityBot builds the index behind Perplexity citations and honors robots.txt. Perplexity-User fetches pages for people's questions and generally ignores it. Blocking the wrong one costs you traffic.

Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce hide robots.txt in Content, Design, Configuration — and a static file can silently override it. The admin path, multi-store traps, and a store-ready AI-crawler file.

Learn how to block AI crawlers on PrestaShop today with robots.txt: protect your product content from AI training without hurting search rankings or sales.

Block AI training crawlers on GitHub Pages with a single robots.txt file. Learn where the file must live, which bots to block, and what static hosting cannot do.

Learn how to block AI crawlers on Framer even though you cannot edit robots.txt directly — use per-page meta tags and Cloudflare bot rules to protect your content.

Block AI crawlers on Netlify with three layers: robots.txt in your publish directory, the User Agent Blocker extension, and a custom edge function that refuses known AI crawlers.