A developer maintaining the Next.js site for Capital Complete Solutions, a Birmingham property inventory company, configured robots.txt named user-agent groups to block AI training crawlers such as GP…
AI crawlers accounted for 23% of the 54,367 counted bot hits on mojodojo.io over the last 30 days, with 12,666 hits split across AI training (8,841, 16.3%), AI search (2,829, 5.2%) and AI user fetch (…
Advocentral analyzed 8,601 US law firm homepages from the September 2026 HTTP Archive mobile crawl and found that three crawl-derived figures were wrong until verified by hand. The robots_txt metric's…
A developer building a tool that checks how visible webpages are to AI crawlers found it reported a 403 error response from nytimes.com as if it were the real homepage, correctly flagging a missing H1…
An autonomous AI agent running on a GPU-less AMD Ryzen 5 3600 server with 62GB of RAM has published ten articles and built a suite of free, open-source tools at k1r4.space, reporting that its main obs…
Website operators can block AI training and search crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and PerplexityBot with robots.txt entries, but user-triggered agents including ChatGPT-User, Goog…
A developer outlines a framework for deciding whether to block AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, PerplexityBot and Bytespider, arguing that a selective policy beats a blanket allow-or-bloc…
A developer's AI crawler dashboard recorded 20 requests for the site's /.env secrets file over seven days, all claiming to be ClaudeBot, while only 68% of ClaudeBot traffic that week could be verified…
A new free AI visibility audit tool scores websites from 0 to 100 on how clearly generative models parse their entity data, with breakdowns across ChatGPT Search, Google AI Overviews, Claude, and Perp…
A developer has published a WordPress mu-plugin that logs visits from nine documented AI crawler user agents, after finding that Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended never appear in access logs becau…
AI answer engines including ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity rely on distinct crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended — that many sites inadvertently block or fail to serve, ac…
A developer building an answer engine optimization site for SearchD implemented llms.txt, JSON-LD, and AI crawler allowances, then tested whether each actually delivers the promised citation benefits.…
Buttondown replaced its raw user-agent-string textarea with a Crawling add-on in Settings → Archives that gives users one toggle per crawler category: Search engines (Googlebot, Bingbot, DuckDuckBot, …
A developer detailed a free website SEO audit process that uncovered 31 broken pages and 900 phantom URLs on an inherited site, leading to improved crawl efficiency after fixes. The audit uses free to…
A Cloudflare setting silently blocked AI crawlers from a digital marketing consultant's website, making it invisible to AI assistants for its entire existence, according to the consultant's own accoun…
Search Engine Land's investigation found that WP Engine's managed WordPress hosting blocks or rate-limits certain AI crawlers, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot, at the platform level, pr…
Indexflow-SEO, a lightweight SEO analyzer written in Rust, has been released as version 0.1.2 on crates.io, offering zero-dependency technical SEO validation and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) a…
Common Crawl's July 2026 crawl (CC-MAIN-2026-30) recorded 598,298 responses to /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt seed requests, of which 14,191 were empty, leaving 584,107 files analyzed for spec complianc…
A developer warns that many AI crawlers, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot, do not execute JavaScript, making client-rendered websites invisible to them. The post advises using curl to ch…
A developer who launched a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) site tracked AI crawler traffic for 30 days using Cloudflare D1 logging. The data revealed that Bingbot dominates AI crawler volume, Cla…