iindiehackers.com

Blocked: OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended.

• OAI-SearchBotOpenAIL33

  ChatGPT search results

  "Disallow: /" blocks OAI-SearchBot.

• PerplexityBotPerplexityL33

  Perplexity answers

  "Disallow: /" blocks PerplexityBot.

• Claude-SearchBotAnthropicL33

  Claude search results

  "Disallow: /" blocks Claude-SearchBot.

• Google-ExtendedGoogleL33

  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.

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, Amazonbot.

• GPTBotOpenAIL33

  OpenAI model training

  "Disallow: /" blocks GPTBot.

• ClaudeBotAnthropicL33

  Anthropic model training

  "Disallow: /" blocks ClaudeBot.

• BytespiderByteDanceL33

  ByteDance model training

  "Disallow: /" blocks Bytespider.

• meta-externalagentMetaL33

  Meta model training

  "Disallow: /" blocks meta-externalagent.

• CCBotCommon CrawlL33

  Common Crawl, widely redistributed as training data

  "Disallow: /" blocks CCBot.

• AmazonbotAmazonL33

  Amazon model training and Alexa

  "Disallow: /" blocks Amazonbot.

If that is the intention. If your intention is to prevent this content being used as model training data, the current configuration achieves that.

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 answered HTTP 403 with a bot challenge instead of its content, so its meta robots tags and X-Robots-Tag headers were not read.

Consequence. Nothing is known about whether this page asks to be kept out of search results. Its absence of directives here proves nothing either way.

If that is not intended. Analyse the page again once it answers normally to our bot.

Every declared sitemap is an absolute URL and is crawlable.

• https://www.indiehackers.com/sitemap.xmlL9

Every line parses as a directive crawlers understand.

Comfortably within the 500 KB that crawlers will read.