SEO Strategy
The AI Crawler Allowlist Strategy: Allow the Bots That Help You, Block the Rest (2026)
Blocking every AI bot costs you ChatGPT and Perplexity citations. The selective allowlist strategy: block training bots (GPTBot, CCBot, ClaudeBot), allow answer engines (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot) — with template and verification steps.
Rahul Sharma
11 min
