CCBot checker
Find what stops AI reading your site — and get your full report with the exact fixes.
ChatGPT
Claude
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What we check
CCBot crawls the public web to build the Common Crawl archive — a free, openly downloadable dataset that OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and many other labs have historically drawn on as raw pretraining material. Blocking CCBot is one step removed from blocking any single AI company directly: it affects a shared dataset multiple labs may use, not one platform's live crawl.
- Whether CCBot is explicitly allowed or disallowed in robots.txt
- Whether a wildcard rule unintentionally affects it
- Whether your robots.txt has any rule for it at all
Passing technical checks is only the starting point. Read why your site might not show up in ChatGPT to work through access, rendering and content issues before expecting citations.
Crawlers involved
CCBot
Common Crawl Foundation
Crawls the public web to build the Common Crawl archive — a free dataset that OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and many other labs have used as raw training material.
Common problems
No explicit rule
Most robots.txt files never mention CCBot, so it defaults to allowed by omission rather than by choice.
Confused with a specific AI company's bot
CCBot isn't operated by OpenAI, Anthropic or Google — it's a nonprofit archive that several labs have separately chosen to train on.
How to fix them
Add an explicit directive
Write `User-agent: CCBot` followed by `Allow: /` or `Disallow: /` so the decision reflects your actual position on the shared training-data question, not an accident of omission.
Frequently asked
Does blocking CCBot stop ChatGPT or Claude from training on my content?
Not directly and not completely. It removes your content from future Common Crawl snapshots, which is one source among several that different labs may draw from — it doesn't control what a company has already trained on or what it collects through its own first-party crawler.
Is Common Crawl affiliated with any AI company?
No. The Common Crawl Foundation is an independent nonprofit that has published its web archive since 2011, well before most current AI labs existed. Its data has simply been widely reused as pretraining material.
Will blocking CCBot hurt my Google ranking?
No. CCBot is unrelated to Googlebot and Google Search indexing — they're operated by entirely different organizations.