AIO Watch
AI Crawlers: who reads your site
AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended fetch pages that feed AI answers. If you block them, you remove yourself from the answer.
What it means
AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended fetch pages that feed AI answers. If you block them, you remove yourself from the answer.
Why we track it
As AI Optimization matures, its vocabulary settles. We watch which terms practitioners actually use, because shared language is one of the clearest signs a field is taking hold. The canonical definitions live on AIO Facts; here we note the words moving into common use.
Key points
- AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended fetch pages that feed AI answers. If you block them, you remove yourself from the answer.
Questions
Common questions
What are AI crawlers?
AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended fetch pages that feed AI answers. If you block them, you remove yourself from the answer.
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