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Curtis Weyant

@curtisweyant.com

Writer, Editor & Content Strategist | SEO Expert & Trainer | Nerdy Book Stuff @curtdubya.bsky.social

Curtis Weyant @curtisweyant.com · 21/07/2025

Welp, I take it back—I think I'm just an idiot. This is what I get for panic sharing to social media rather than taking 5 more minutes to figure something out. 🤦 I believe I've found the issue will wait for validation of the fix. Apolgogies.

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Curtis Weyant @curtisweyant.com · 21/07/2025

Almost immediately after I updated my robots.txt, I started seeing pages reported as blocked by robot.txt in Google Search Console. Curious as to why this might be happening. Do these UAs have more to do with Search than stated by the docs? Any thoughts from @johnmu.com (or anyone else)?

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Curtis Weyant @curtisweyant.com · 21/07/2025

I tried blocking AI bots from crawling my website using the list at github.com/ai-robots-txt/ The list includes several Google UAs: Google-CloudVertexBot Google-Extended GoogleOther[-Image|-Video] None of these should affect Google Search according to developers.google.com/search/docs/...

github.com

ai.robots.txt

A community effort to identify and block AI crawlers. - ai.robots.txt

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Curtis Weyant @curtisweyant.com · 30/06/2025

Lead generation?

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Preeti Gupta @ilovechoclates.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The work is indeed mysterious and important

Upper text "When you ask an SEO consultant what they actually do for work"

Lower text "The work is mysterious and important"

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