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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does entrepreneur.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. entrepreneur.com’s robots.txt blocks 2 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including Meta-ExternalAgent and Meta-ExternalFetcher. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.entrepreneur.com/robots.txt · 34 lines
llms.txt: none
Checked: 9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.

Every bot, and the line that decides

Search engines

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`Googlebot`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YouBot`	You.com	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Google-Extended`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Blocked	line 15 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent`
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Blocked	line 18 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher`

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DotBot`	Moz	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

View www.entrepreneur.com/robots.txt · 34 lines

1# START YOAST BLOCK

2# ---------------------------

3User-agent: *

4Disallow: /wp-admin/

5Disallow: /wp-login.php

6Disallow: /readme.html

7Disallow: /?s=

8Disallow: /search/

9Disallow: /*/feed/

10Disallow: /*/trackback/

11Disallow: /comments/feed/

12Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

14User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent

15Disallow: /

17User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher

18Disallow: /

20User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer

21Disallow: /

23User-agent: Meta-ExternalAds

24Disallow: /

26Sitemap: https://www.entrepreneur.com/sitemap_index.xml

27Sitemap: https://spanish.entrepreneur.com/sitemap_index.xml

28Sitemap: https://india.entrepreneur.com/sitemap_index.xml

29Sitemap: https://apac.entrepreneur.com/sitemap_index.xml

30Sitemap: https://uk.entrepreneur.com/sitemap_index.xml

31Sitemap: https://eu.entrepreneur.com/sitemap_index.xml

32Sitemap: https://mena.entrepreneur.com/sitemap_index.xml

33# ---------------------------

34# END YOAST BLOCK

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what entrepreneur.com asks of crawlers. A firewall or CDN can still refuse a bot that robots.txt allows. The live check requests the page as each bot and shows the status it gets.

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History

19 October 2026: first checked.

Questions

Does entrepreneur.com block GPTBot?

No. entrepreneur.com’s robots.txt lets GPTBot crawl the site. GPTBot is OpenAI’s crawler for training data; blocking it doesn’t affect ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does entrepreneur.com block ClaudeBot?

No. entrepreneur.com’s robots.txt lets ClaudeBot crawl the site. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does entrepreneur.com block Google-Extended?

No. entrepreneur.com’s robots.txt lets Google-Extended crawl the site. Google-Extended is the token that controls whether Google may use pages for Gemini training and grounding; it doesn’t affect Google Search. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does entrepreneur.com block PerplexityBot?

No. entrepreneur.com’s robots.txt lets PerplexityBot crawl the site. PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find entrepreneur.com?

Yes. entrepreneur.com’s robots.txt lets OAI-SearchBot crawl the site. OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.