AI SEO, Crawlers and robots.txt Diagnostics
What is an AI bot access checker?
An AI bot access checker reads robots.txt and shows whether search engines and AI crawlers are allowed to fetch your public website content.
Should I allow GPTBot or ClaudeBot?
Allow them if you want better discoverability in AI systems. Block them if your content policy does not permit AI crawling or training use.
What is the difference between GPTBot and ChatGPT-User?
GPTBot is associated with automated OpenAI crawling, while ChatGPT-User represents user-triggered browsing from ChatGPT features.
Can robots.txt block AI crawlers?
Robots.txt can declare crawl permissions for compliant bots. It is not an access-control firewall and does not stop malicious scrapers.
Does blocking AI bots affect Google rankings?
Blocking AI-specific bots does not directly block Googlebot unless your robots.txt rules also disallow Googlebot or all user agents.