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How to Improve Your AI Crawl Access

Make sure AI crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot can actually reach your site.

3 min readUpdated August 18, 2026

How to Improve Your AI Crawl Access

If AI crawlers can't reach your site, nothing else matters — AI simply has no information to work with.

Checking Your Current Access

The Crawler Unblock Wizard checks your live robots.txt for these bots: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended. If any are blocked with a Disallow: / rule, you'll see it immediately.

The Fix

1

Run the Crawler Unblock Wizard

It scans your robots.txt and tells you exactly which bots are blocked.

2

Add the Suggested Lines

Copy the generated Allow: / rules into your robots.txt for each blocked bot.

3

Add an llms.txt File

Use the LLM.txt Generator to create a clean summary file AI can read directly — this is quickly becoming a standard alongside robots.txt.

4

Verify

Visit yoursite.com/robots.txt and yoursite.com/llm.txt to confirm both are live.

Most sites don't intentionally block AI crawlers — it usually happens by accident through a security plugin or a copy-pasted robots.txt template. It's worth checking even if you think you're fine.

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