{"slug": "site-rules-for-applebot-extended-are-not-considered-in-ranking-for-search", "title": "Site Rules For Applebot-Extended Are Not Considered In Ranking For Search", "summary": "Apple updated its Applebot help documentation to state that site rules for Applebot-Extended are not considered in ranking for Search, clarifying the distinction between Applebot-Extended and Search as the release of iOS 27 approaches. The change, highlighted in the documentation, separates Applebot-Extended's crawling behavior from search ranking, similar to Google's Googlebot-Extended policy.", "body_md": "Apple has updated its [help documentation for Applebot](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829) over the weekend and added a single line at the end that reads, \"Site rules for Applebot-Extended are not considered in ranking for Search.\"  [Applebot-Extended](https://www.seroundtable.com/apple-updates-applebot-docs-39310.html) is not new; we covered it in April 2025, but here Apple is making it clear, [like with Googlebot-Extended](https://www.seroundtable.com/google-sge-extended-robots-directive-36182.html), that Applebot-Extended is separate from Search.\n\nThe yellow highlighted part (I added the highlight) is what was added, outside of the date-stamp change at the bottom of the page:\n\nI guess before the release of iOS 27 to the public, which should be coming out in the next couple of weeks, Apple wanted to make sure the [new Siri and Apple Intelligence](https://www.seroundtable.com/siri-ai-41471.html) is clearly defined for what Applebot-Extended can and cannot do with your website.\n\nHere is the diff for the page:\n\nForum discussion at [X](https://x.com/rustybrick/status/2096919155672785100).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/site-rules-for-applebot-extended-are-not-considered-in-ranking-for-search", "canonical_source": "https://www.seroundtable.com/applebot-extended-search-ranking-42025.html", "published_at": "2026-09-07 11:11:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-07 13:29:24.621027+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Apple", "Applebot-Extended", "Googlebot-Extended", "iOS 27", "Siri", "Apple Intelligence"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/site-rules-for-applebot-extended-are-not-considered-in-ranking-for-search", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/site-rules-for-applebot-extended-are-not-considered-in-ranking-for-search.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/site-rules-for-applebot-extended-are-not-considered-in-ranking-for-search.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/site-rules-for-applebot-extended-are-not-considered-in-ranking-for-search.jsonld"}}