What is CCBot?

Block CCBot if you want more control over whether your work is used for AI training. Allowing it may increase the chance that your brand appears in AI-generated answers, but either choice leaves traditional search rankings unchanged. For context, 23% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for CCBot.

Yes. CCBot is expected to follow robots.txt directives, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether CCBot respects it.

Not through legitimate access. CCBot primarily targets public content, but some training-data scrapers also attempt to collect gated or paywalled pages. If content loads without authentication, assume it can be collected.

Your content matched the criteria Common Crawl set for a training dataset. CCBot typically discovers pages through external links, sitemaps, and seed lists rather than because someone selected your site individually.

Agent Analytics tracks CCBot visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "CCBot". Look for high page counts, short gaps between requests, and deep traversal through linked content. Because CCBot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.