Bendigo Advertiser

bendigoadvertiser.com.au · Australia · Australian Community Media (ACM) · measured 8 Oct 2026

Google Search

Allowed

Google-Extended

Blocked

OpenAI

Blocked

Anthropic

Blocked

Perplexity

Blocked

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 3,554 bytes. 19 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: claude-web
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/sitemap-news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/sitemap-sections.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/sitemap-topics.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/sitemap-explore.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/sitemap-2026.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*/ajax/
Disallow: /assets/
Disallow: /internal/
Disallow: /push-worker.js
Disallow: /scores-and-draws/
Disallow: /*/rss.xml
Disallow: /*/rss-full.xml
Disallow: /*/feed
Disallow: /*/feed/

User-agent: 80legs
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: NeevaBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: archive.today
Disallow: /

User-agent: archive.li
Disallow: /

User-agent: archive.is
Disallow: /

User-agent: archive.ph
Disallow: /

User-agent: archive.md
Disallow: /

User-agent: removepaywalls
Disallow: /

User-agent: PrintFriendly
Disallow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-webindexer
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAds
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalads
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amzn-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mantisbot/1.0
Disallow: /

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

Australia

34.0% block at least one AI crawler

Behind Cloudflare

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