Scenario

AI Crawler Policy for News Publishers

Publishers need a more deliberate policy because AI summaries can affect traffic, licensing, attribution, and newsroom economics.

Suggested workflow

  1. Separate training crawler decisions from AI-search citation decisions.
  2. Keep archives, author pages, and evergreen explainers in a crawlable structure if AI citation traffic matters.
  3. Use paywall, subscriber, and account controls outside robots.txt.
  4. Document licensing and contact information in public policy pages.
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