Guides

These articles explain how AI crawlers work, how to control them with robots.txt and firewalls, and the practical trade-offs of allowing or blocking them. They are written to support the free AI Crawler Firewall Checker on Movio.

Articles

• What are AI crawlers and how do they work?
  An overview of the main AI crawlers, what they are used for, and how they differ from traditional search crawlers.
• How to control AI bots with robots.txt
  Practical robots.txt patterns for allowing, limiting or blocking GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and others.
• Blocking AI crawlers at the firewall and CDN layer
  Why robots.txt alone is not enough, and how WAFs, CDNs and bot management affect AI access.
• Should you allow AI crawlers on your website?
  A decision framework covering training, retrieval, citations, traffic and content control — without prescribing a single answer.

After reading, you can run a live check on any public URL to see how your current configuration behaves.