Glossary

GPTBot

OpenAI's training crawler, one of three OpenAI user agents alongside OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User.

robots.txt rules

Each agent matches its own User-agent group; a rule for GPTBot does not apply to OAI-SearchBot.

  • User-agent: GPTBot / Disallow: / withholds training data only
  • User-agent: OAI-SearchBot / Disallow: / removes you from ChatGPT search
  • User-agent: ChatGPT-User / Disallow: / stops live fetches

Key Takeaways

  • 1.GPTBot is important for website performance and SEO.
  • 2.You can measure it using tools like BulkAudit and Google Lighthouse.
  • 3.Improving this metric can lead to better user experience and search rankings.

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