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GPTBot

AI Crawlers

GPTBot

GPTBot is OpenAI's web crawler that indexes content for ChatGPT. Allowing GPTBot access is essential for being cited in ChatGPT responses.

Why It Matters for GEO

If GPTBot is blocked, ChatGPT cannot access your content to cite it. Allowing GPTBot is the first step to ChatGPT visibility.

How to Configure

# robots.txt - Allow GPTBot
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-Agent

GPTBot/1.0