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Your site might rank on Google but still be invisible to ChatGPT. Learn how to test GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Bingbot, and other crawlers, detect hidden CDN blocks, and make your content…

A developer discovered that CDN configurations can block AI crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot even when robots.txt allows them. They created a tool to test crawler accessibility and found that many sites are invisible to AI services due to hidden CDN blocks. The fix often requires adjusting CDN firewall rules rather than robots.txt.

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source & further reading
dev.to — original article A Complete Guide to Moonshot's New 2.8T Flagship 5 Proof Gates Between an AI Demo and a Shippable MVP Robust-GAP: Achieving Zero-Hallucination Causal Summarization in Hierarchical RAG
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