Copy-pasted AI-crawler-blocking robots.txt rules silently override existing directives
Site owners adding popular block-AI-crawlers robots.txt snippets often unknowingly disable a rule they already had, due to how robots.txt directive precedence works. The mistake is invisible until crawl behavior or indexing changes are noticed.
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