Build a complete robots.txt controlling search engines and AI crawlers. Block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and SEO crawlers selectively. Validated output.
robots.txt controls which crawlers can access which parts of your site. Use it to save crawl budget by blocking low-value pages and to control AI training data access. In 2026, with AI crawlers proliferating, robots.txt has become critical for controlling which AI systems can train on your content.
Note: OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot are real-time search crawlers -- blocking them reduces AI search visibility. GPTBot and Google-Extended are training crawlers -- blocking them prevents content use in AI training without affecting real-time AI search.