# Posts tagged “robots.txt and robots directives”

> Crawler control for AI bots: robots.txt groups, meta robots, X-Robots-Tag, and what noindex means to an answer engine.

3 articles.

## Articles

### AI Crawler List 2026: Every User-Agent, robots.txt per Bot

- **URL:** https://alexturik.com/blog/ai-crawler-list-robots-txt-2026
- **Markdown:** https://alexturik.com/blog/ai-crawler-list-robots-txt-2026.md
- **Published:** 2026-08-27

44 AI user-agent tokens with owners and IP lists, which ones ignore robots.txt, three copy-paste robots.txt presets, and a scan of 53 live robots files.

### The 3-Word Tag That Hides Your Best Pages from AI

- **URL:** https://alexturik.com/blog/the-3-word-tag-that-hides-your-best-pages-from-ai
- **Markdown:** https://alexturik.com/blog/the-3-word-tag-that-hides-your-best-pages-from-ai.md
- **Published:** 2026-05-08 · **Updated:** 2026-08-30

Three words in `<head>` can hide your best article from ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity — even if Google still shows it. The silent AEO killer.

### Why Your Site Doesn't Show Up in ChatGPT (or Perplexity)

- **URL:** https://alexturik.com/blog/why-your-site-doesnt-show-in-chatgpt-and-perplexity
- **Markdown:** https://alexturik.com/blog/why-your-site-doesnt-show-in-chatgpt-and-perplexity.md
- **Published:** 2026-05-02 · **Updated:** 2026-08-29

Three robots.txt strategies for AI crawlers, and the two configuration mistakes that quietly cut you out of ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity answers.

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