By 2026, web traffic has undergone a significant bifurcation. On one side are Search/Retrieval bots that cite your work and drive traffic; on the other are Training bots (Eaters) that ingest your data to build proprietary models without attribution or referral. Managing your robots.txt is now a matter of data sovereignty and server performance. The Bot Taxonomy: Citers vs. Eaters Effective blocking requires distinguishing between bot intents: The Eaters: Agents like GPTBot and CCBot scrape bulk data primarily for LLM training. The Citers: Agents like OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot use your content to answer user queries with links back to your site. The Hybrid: Googlebot remains essential for traditional search, but Google-Extended allows you to opt-out of Gemini training specifically. Differentiating these agents allows you to maintain visibility in the "summarized internet" while restricting scrapers that offer zero ROI. Sovereign Configurat...
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