Glossary · Crawlers and access
Content-Signal
A robots.txt directive expressing separate permissions for search indexing, AI input and AI training. It communicates intent to operators who choose to honour it and carries no enforcement of its own.
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Crawlers and access
Who is fetching, whether they are who they claim, and what your rules actually permit.
retrieval crawler · user-triggered fetch · verified crawler · forged crawler identity · unverifiable · robots.txt · user-agent group · AI opt-out · crawl budget · cloaking · challenge page at 200 · uniform refusal · nonexistent-path control · blocked render resource · off-host redirect · homepage refused · FCrDNS · Crawler trap · Conditional request · ASN blocking · operator feed · residential proxy · Google-Extended · Google-Agent · GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot · ClaudeBot vs Claude-User · PerplexityBot vs Perplexity-User · CCBot · Bytespider · agentic traffic · crawler classification
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