CCBot is Common Crawl's web crawler. Common Crawl is the largest publicly-available web corpus and is used as training data by virtually every major LLM including those at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google. Blocking CCBot removes the site from this foundational training data source.
Common Crawl's data is a core training input for almost every major LLM. Blocking CCBot reduces the probability that any future model knows about your brand. The downstream impact is hard to overstate.
Yes, in nearly all cases for AEO. The marginal cost of CCBot crawling is minimal. The marginal benefit is meaningful inclusion in future LLM training corpora.
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