AI Crawler Directives: The Robots.txt Guide for GEO & AEO (2026)
Why Robots.txt Is Suddenly a GEO Problem, Not Just an SEO One For twenty years, robots.txt existed to manage one relationship: your site and Googlebot. Get it wrong and you lost search rankings. That risk hasn’t gone away, but it’s no longer the only one. Answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews now…
