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Checked a live Shopify store's robots.txt today to see how it handles AI crawlers. No GPTBot, no PerplexityBot, no ClaudeBot listed anywhere. They just fall under the general rule that blocks admin, cart, checkout and account pages, same as any other bot.
That's actually fine for most stores. Product and collection pages stay crawlable by default, so ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude can read them when answering shopping questions. The mistake we see is stores that add a blanket AI-blocking line to robots.txt thinking it protects content, and accidentally block the exact pages they want showing up in AI answers.
Worth a 2 minute check: open yourstore.com/robots.txt and make sure product and collection paths aren't disallowed.
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