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Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 2 months ago by homesweethomeMrL to c/technology
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cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/2178630

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So how do I actually opt out? My website is just some personal hobby stuff on wordpress that only friends and family look at, I don’t need seo.

[–] ColinHayhurst 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You should put these entries into your robots.txt file.

To block the Google search crawler use for all of your site:

User-agent: Googlebot

Disallow: /

To block the Google AI crawler use:

User-agent: Google-Advanced

Disallow: /

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You rock, thank you!

[–] jamyang 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What if I made a static site using Github pages hosting? Will having a robots.txt in my root folder ward off Google bhoots (devils)?

[–] ColinHayhurst 2 points 2 months ago

Yes.