Is GPTBot Silently Blocked by Your Cloudflare WAF? How to Test and Fix AI Crawler Access

Описание и применение

<div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>You launch a site, set up your robots.txt to welcome AI search bots, and move on: </code></pre> </div> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code> txt User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / A few weeks later, you check your server access logs or wonder why your content never gets cited in ChatGPT Search or Perplexity. You find zero crawler hits. The culprit is almost never your robots.txt. It is usually an edge security rule or web application firewall (WAF) blocking the crawler before

Задача

<div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>You launch a site, set up your robots.txt to welcome AI search bots, and move on: </code></pre> </div> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code> txt User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / A few weeks later, you check your server access logs or wonder why your content never gets cited in ChatGPT Search or Perplexity. You find zero crawler hits. The culprit is almost never your robots.txt. It is usually an edge security rule or web application firewall (WAF) blocking the crawler before

Результат

<div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>You launch a site, set up your robots.txt to welcome AI search bots, and move on: </code></pre> </div> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code> txt User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / A few weeks later, you check your server access logs or wonder why your content never gets cited in ChatGPT Search or Perplexity. You find zero crawler hits. The culprit is almost never your robots.txt. It is usually an edge security rule or web application firewall (WAF) blocking the crawler before

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Is GPTBot Silently Blocked by Your Cloudflare WAF? How to Test and Fix AI Crawler Access

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