OpenAI · search index
Is OAI-SearchBot blocked on your site?
OAI-SearchBot is OpenAI’s search index token for ChatGPT Search, and whether it reaches you is decided by one line in your robots.txt. This is the one that decides whether ChatGPT Search can cite you. Blocking it removes you from that citation pool entirely.
- Major crawler weight
- OAI-SearchBot robots.txt token
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Phase 2 adds the parts that rank: the exact allow and block snippets for OAI-SearchBot, what OpenAI publishes about it, the CDN and plugin defaults that block it without telling you, and how it differs from the vendor’s other tokens.
This page is noindex until that lands, and it is not in the sitemap.