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Access to third-party crawlers is ultimately controlled by the site's robots.txt rules and by any server, hosting, firewall, CDN, or security configuration outside this plugin.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Upload the <code>four47-labs-ai-visibility-controls<\/code> folder to <code>\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code>, or install the plugin ZIP from Plugins &gt; Add New &gt; Upload Plugin.<\/li>\n<li>Activate Four47 Labs AI Visibility Controls from the Plugins screen.<\/li>\n<li>Open Four47 Labs AI Visibility Controls in the WordPress administration menu.<\/li>\n<li>Configure llms.txt and robots.txt according to your site's requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Use AI Visibility and Audit to review the effective configuration.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>Before changing robots.txt rules, review any existing crawler directives used by your site, hosting provider, security tools, CDN, or other plugins.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"does%20llms.txt%20make%20my%20site%20appear%20in%20chatgpt%20or%20other%20ai%20assistants%3F\"><h3>Does llms.txt make my site appear in ChatGPT or other AI assistants?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. AI Visibility can generate and expose an llms.txt file, but llms.txt does not guarantee crawling, indexing, citations, mentions, or inclusion in an AI product.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"what%20is%20the%20difference%20between%20oai-searchbot%20and%20gptbot%3F\"><h3>What is the difference between OAI-SearchBot and GPTBot?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>They are separate OpenAI user agents with different documented purposes. 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