Can ChatGPT Access My Website? Check GPTBot

Can ChatGPT access your website?

OpenAI's ChatGPT uses GPTBot to crawl the web. To check if ChatGPT can read your content:

Quick check with UltraScout

Use the free AI SEO Score tool — it automatically scans your robots.txt for:

• User-agent: GPTBot
• User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
• Any blocking directives

Manual check

Visit https://yourdomain.com/robots.txt and search for:

User-agent: GPTBot

• If followed by Disallow: / — ChatGPT is blocked
• If followed by Allow: / — ChatGPT is allowed
• If missing — ChatGPT follows default rules (usually allowed)

How to allow GPTBot

Add to your robots.txt:

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

Why it matters

ChatGPT is used by hundreds of millions of people for research, recommendations, and question answering. If ChatGPT can't access your site, your expertise won't appear in ChatGPT-powered answers.

How to block GPTBot (if needed)

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /