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AI Crawlers: What GPTBot, PerplexityBot, and Others Do

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AI crawlers like GPTBot or PerplexityBot don’t crawl the web for ranking purposes, but rather to collect training data or generate real-time responses for systems like ChatGPT. Technically, they function similarly to a traditional crawler, but they pursue a different goal than Googlebot in technical SEO. For website operators, this creates an entirely new category […]

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Robots.txt: How the File Controls Crawlers and AI Bots

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The robots.txt file is one of the oldest control files on the web, yet it is often configured incorrectly. It specifies which areas of a website search engine crawlers are allowed to visit, and it increasingly determines whether AI systems use content for training data or live responses. Our article on crawling and load time […]

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