AI Crawler Access Control: The Complete Guide (2026)
Replaced in November 2026: this answer now sits in a longer, current page on the same question. Linked here.
By Andrej Ruckij · · 1 min read
AI Crawler Access Control: The Complete Guide (2026)
This article has been replaced. This guide repeated our decision page almost word for word. That page now holds the decision by business type, the setup steps and the one robots.txt template we keep current.
Read the current version: Should you block or allow AI crawlers? A decision rule and the robots.txt to ship