Robots.txt is path-specific
A rule that looks harmless at the domain level can block a product page, blog post, or documentation path.
Robots policy
Parse robots.txt for major AI user agents and see which rules apply to the URL path you care about.
Included checks
Review crawler rules, page responses, and discovery files for the URL you submit.
A rule that looks harmless at the domain level can block a product page, blog post, or documentation path.
Training crawlers, search/retrieval crawlers, user-triggered fetchers, ad-validation fetchers, and classic search bots should be reviewed separately.
AI crawler user-agent names change over time, so the bot registry should have a visible update date.