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.