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BNবাংলা#AI crawlers
AI crawlers are the automated bots that AI companies use to fetch web pages, either to train models or to answer user questions in real time. Each one identifies itself with a user-agent name, such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot. Site owners can allow or block them in robots.txt, and sometimes they are blocked by accident by a firewall or CDN setting. Knowing which bot does what helps you decide which ones to let in. Articles under this tag cover crawler names, access rules, logs and common mistakes.
Oct 1, 2026 · 8 min readPay-Per-Crawl and AI Licensing: Options for Site Owners
Beyond allow or block: pay-per-crawl, licensing terms and usage preferences for AI crawlers. What exists, how mature it is and what site owners can…
Oct 1, 2026 · 8 min readCommon Crawl and CCBot: What It Means for Your Website
What Common Crawl is, what its CCBot crawler collects, how the data is used for AI training and research, and how to decide whether…
Sep 30, 2026 · 8 min readAI Crawlers and XML Sitemaps: What Is Known and What Helps
XML sitemaps were built for search engines, not AI assistants. See what is known about AI crawlers and sitemaps, and why a clean sitemap…
Sep 29, 2026 · 8 min readHelp Center and Documentation Pages in AI Answers
How to make help center and documentation pages usable by AI assistants: crawler access, task-based structure, versioning and retiring old articles.
Sep 27, 2026 · 8 min readShould You Let AI Train on Your Content? A Decision Guide
A practical guide to deciding whether AI companies may train on your website content: benefits, risks, what blocking can and cannot do, and how…
Sep 26, 2026 · 8 min readChatGPT vs Perplexity vs Copilot: How Each Finds Sources
How ChatGPT, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot find and cite web sources, which crawlers and indexes each relies on, and what that means for your…
Sep 24, 2026 · 7 min readnoai and noimageai Meta Tags: Do They Actually Work?
What the noai and noimageai meta tags are, which systems respect them, why they are not a standard, and what actually controls AI use…
Sep 23, 2026 · 7 min readAI Search Glossary: 30 Terms Site Owners Should Know
Plain-English definitions of 30 AI search terms, from AI Overviews, GEO and RAG to crawlers, llms.txt, grounding and zero-click, for site owners and marketers.
Sep 22, 2026 · 7 min readAI Agents Browsing Websites: How to Be Agent-Friendly
AI agents now browse sites, compare options and fill in forms for users. Learn what makes a website easy for agents to use and…
Sep 11, 2026 · 7 min readAI Search Readiness for WordPress: A Practical Setup
A practical WordPress setup for AI search: robots.txt, security and cache plugins, rendering, schema, dates, authors and llms.txt, step by step in wp-admin.
Sep 9, 2026 · 8 min readDoes Page Speed Matter for AI Crawlers and AI Search?
How server speed, page weight and errors affect AI crawlers, live fetches and AI search visibility, and which performance fixes matter most for bots.
Sep 8, 2026 · 7 min readPaywalls, Logins and Gated Content in AI Search
How paywalls, logins and lead-gen forms affect visibility in AI search, what crawlers can see, and how to keep premium content valuable while staying…