AI Crawler Management: The Definitive Guide to robots.txt for AI Bots
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Robotics
Your robots.txt file was designed for Googlebot. But in 2026, there are over 20 AI crawlers hitting your site - GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, and more. Most website owners have no idea which AI bots are visiting their site, what they are doing with the content, or how to control access.