How to Allow AI Crawlers in robots.txt (GEO Strategy)

Explicitly allow GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot in robots.txt to get your content cited in AI search answers.

robots.txt Syntax — Allow AI Crawlers (Allow)

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User-agent: *
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

What This Does

Allowing AI crawlers explicitly means your content is eligible to be cited in AI search answers (GEO — Generative Engine Optimisation). Sites that are blocked from AI crawlers are excluded from ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity's knowledge base.

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