ccrunchbase.com

The URL is declared in robots.txt but does not return a successful response.

Consequence. Crawlers find nothing at the address they were pointed to, so no URLs are submitted. This is worse than declaring no sitemap, because the declaration suggests discovery is covered when it is not.

If that is not intended. Publish the sitemap at the declared URL, or correct the URL to where it lives.

• https://www.crunchbase.com/www-sitemaps/sitemap-index.xmlL63Responded HTTP 403

A broader rule of the same type already covers these paths.

Consequence. These lines change nothing. They are harmless, but they add length to a file that has a size limit, and they make the real policy harder to read.

If that is not intended. Remove the redundant rules, or narrow the broader rule if it is catching more than intended.

• disallow: /account-setupL19Already covered by "disallow: /account" on line 11

Blocked: Google-Extended.

• Google-ExtendedGoogleL61

  Google AI Overviews and Gemini grounding

  "Disallow: /" blocks Google-Extended.

If that is the intention. If your intention is to keep the site out of AI-generated answers, the current configuration achieves that for these crawlers — the rest of the group is still allowed.

Consequence. The site cannot be cited as a source in AI-generated answers. Unlike training crawlers these send referral traffic, so blocking them forfeits those visits.

If that is not intended. Remove the matching Disallow rule, or allow these agents on the sections you want cited.

Blocked: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider, meta-externalagent, CCBot.

• GPTBotOpenAIL61

  OpenAI model training

  "Disallow: /" blocks GPTBot.

• ClaudeBotAnthropicL61

  Anthropic model training

  "Disallow: /" blocks ClaudeBot.

• BytespiderByteDanceL61

  ByteDance model training

  "Disallow: /" blocks Bytespider.

• meta-externalagentMetaL61

  Meta model training

  "Disallow: /" blocks meta-externalagent.

• CCBotCommon CrawlL61

  Common Crawl, widely redistributed as training data

  "Disallow: /" blocks CCBot.

If that is the intention. If your intention is to prevent this content being used as model training data, the current configuration achieves that for these crawlers — the rest of the group is still allowed.

Consequence. These crawlers cannot retrieve content from the site, so it will not be collected as training data. They send no traffic back, and blocking them does not affect search rankings.

If that is not intended. Remove the site-wide block, or replace it with narrower path restrictions.

All 6 checked search engines are allowed at the site root.

All 3 checked user-triggered AI fetches are allowed at the site root.

All 5 checked social link previews are allowed at the site root.

The page sends no robots meta tag and no X-Robots-Tag header.

Every line parses as a directive crawlers understand.

Comfortably within the 500 KB that crawlers will read.