From Search Engines to Generative AI: The Many Crawlers Visiting Your Website
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Websites receive constant visits from automated crawlers beyond search engine bots like Googlebot and Bingbot, including social media crawlers for link previews, SEO tools like AhrefsBot, and AI systems like OpenAI's GPTBot that collect data for training language models. Developers can identify these bots through unique user agent strings in server logs and control their access using robots.txt files.
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