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aeo.robots-blocks-answer-bot

WarningAEO audit

robots.txt blocks a bot that fetches pages for AI answers or an AI search index (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, DuckAssistBot, MistralAI-User, Amzn-SearchBot, Amzn-User, meta-webindexer, meta-externalfetcher, MistralAI-Index, YandexAdditional).

What to change

Allow the bots listed in evidence if the site should be cited in those answer engines: add a group for each with `Allow: /`, or remove the Disallow lines that match them. Keep a block that is deliberate, and disable this rule.

The documentation on developers.google.com

A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.

When it runs

Runs on every AEO audit: of a page, a crawl, a build directory or HTML. A warning is a problem that costs a page ranking, clicks or citations. Each finding takes 5 points off the page's score.

The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.

Run it, or skip it

Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:

npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check aeo https://example.com --rule aeo.robots-blocks-answer-bot

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_aeo_audit:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "aeo.robots-blocks-answer-bot"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable aeo.robots-blocks-answer-bot on the command, or disableRules: ["aeo.robots-blocks-answer-bot"] to a tool.

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