Insights on AEO strategy, AI-powered search, and how brands stay visible when answers replace links.
ClaudeBot collects public-web content that may contribute to model training, Claude-SearchBot supports search indexing, and Claude-User retrieves pages for user questions. Each identity requires separate robots.txt and Crawl-delay decisions.
Most robots.txt guides for AI crawlers are written for publishers who want to block the bots. This is the opposite: how to check if your site is accidentally invisible to ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity — and the exact lines to paste to fix it.