AI Crawlers & Bots

ClaudeBot

Definition

ClaudeBot is Anthropic's crawler used to gather content for Claude training and live retrieval. Like GPTBot, blocking it removes the site from Claude's knowledge and citations. For AEO, ClaudeBot should be allowed.

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