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What specific technical errors in our website's robots.txt file might be blocking AI crawlers like PerplexityBot from indexing our product pages?

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What specific technical errors in our website's robots.txt file might be blocking AI crawlers like PerplexityBot from indexing our product pages?
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
PerplexityBot robots.txt official documentation crawler user agent robots rulesGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
robots.txt RFC 9309 user-agent groups allow disallow matching rulesGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDReason

Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.

Query classes

Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

ChatGPT real searches (2)
Short factOther / navigational50%ComparisonConsequenceReason50%DefinitionInstructionYes / no

Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 2 of 2 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

ChatGPT2 real searches · gpt-6
PerplexityBot robots.txt official documentation crawler user agent robots rules Google ↗
robots.txt RFC 9309 user-agent groups allow disallow matching rules Google ↗
  1. RFC 9309: Robots Exclusion Protocol · rfc-editor.org
  2. RFC 9309 · datatracker.ietf.org

Queries

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Query / typeSearchIntentQuery classRouting formatClusterFreq ↓Weight
PerplexityBot robots.txt official documentation crawler user agent robots rules
OBSERVED
Google ↗
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—Other / navigational——1x
of 1
robots.txt RFC 9309 user-agent groups allow disallow matching rules
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Reason——1x
of 1