RobotswiseOpen generator

SEARCH VISIBILITY GUIDES

AI crawlers, robots.txt, and search visibility

Clear, practical guidance for publishing crawler rules without accidentally making your public site harder to find in Google or Bing.

1

Block GPTBot without blocking Google

Use a dedicated User-agent rule for GPTBot. Keep the general User-agent: * rule open so Googlebot and Bingbot can still crawl public pages.

2

Google-Extended and Google Search are separate controls

Google-Extended is a product token for certain Gemini training and grounding controls; it is not the same thing as blocking Googlebot from Search. Review the user-agent you add before publishing.

3

robots.txt versus noindex

Use robots.txt for crawl preferences. Use noindex on a crawlable page when it must stay out of search results. Use authentication for information that must remain private.

4

Why every public site needs a sitemap

An XML sitemap gives Google and Bing a clean list of canonical URLs you want considered for discovery. Keep it current when pages are added, redirected, or removed.

Start with the generator, then validate

Generate a focused rule set, publish it at your domain root, add your sitemap, and validate the public URL in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Create robots.txt