GPTBot checker
Understand GPTBot training permissions alongside ChatGPT search access. Get the full report and exact fixes.
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What we check
GPTBot is OpenAI's crawler for gathering content that may be used to train future models. It's separate from OAI-SearchBot, which powers live citations — so your GPTBot rule is a training decision, not a visibility one.
- Whether GPTBot is explicitly allowed or disallowed in robots.txt
- Whether a wildcard rule unintentionally affects GPTBot
- Response behaviour when GPTBot's user-agent requests your pages
Crawlers involved
GPTBot
OpenAI
Crawls public content that may be used to train future OpenAI models.
Explore the related checker →Common problems
No explicit rule either way
Without a specific directive, default crawling behaviour may not match what you actually intend.
Blocked via generic bot rule
A security plugin's "block all bots" setting often catches GPTBot along with genuinely malicious traffic.
How to fix them
Add an explicit directive
Write `User-agent: GPTBot` followed by `Allow: /` or `Disallow: /` so the decision is intentional, not incidental.
Frequently asked
Does disallowing GPTBot hurt my Google ranking?
No. GPTBot is unrelated to Googlebot and Google Search ranking. They're entirely separate crawlers operated by different companies.
Is there a downside to allowing GPTBot?
Allowing it means public content may be used in future model training data. Some publishers are comfortable with this; others prefer to opt out. There's no universally correct answer.