Amazon blocked Muse, Meta’s AI agent, without any help from its robots.txt. What the episode shows about the file’s limits, and what to check on your site.
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AI Training Opt-Out on Cloudflare Keeps You on Google
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Markdown for AI Crawlers Only Draws SEO Tools
John Mueller only sees SEO tools asking for markdown on his test sites, and the one controlled experiment published finds no significant gap.
ChatGPT-User Reads Pages Your Robots.txt Blocks
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Cloudflare Blocks Googlebot When You Block AI
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Robots.txt: The Cloudflare Directive Google Ignores
Robots.txt now carries a Cloudflare Content Signals directive Google fully ignores. What this file actually does, and what it never did.