Search, Agent and Training Bots: A Practical Access Policy for Publishers
Build a crawler policy by purpose and named bot, with separate controls for search discovery, user-directed agents, training, verification, and server protection.
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Crawling, indexing, rendering, canonicals, redirects, robots controls, site migrations, and technical diagnosis.
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Build a crawler policy by purpose and named bot, with separate controls for search discovery, user-directed agents, training, verification, and server protection.
A complete operating guide for defining the reader job, classifying claims, collecting evidence, adding information gain, reviewing skeptically, publishing, and maintaining the page.
Audit a new website in release order: clear discovery blockers, define page jobs, test representative templates, verify performance and measurement, then resolve every P0 and P1.
Use seven release gates for new sites and migrations: redirects, robots and canonicals, rendering, metadata, performance, measurement, and rollback.
Shared keywords do not prove harmful overlap. Diagnose page jobs, evidence, internal links, and search behavior, then keep, reposition, merge, or retire each URL.
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