Is there any advertisement on the page, and will it change whether the AI crawler can read the content?
Is there any advertisement on the page, will it change? Can AI spiders read the content on this page? Yes. The new platform's default value treats 'whether the page displays advertisements' as one of the judgment criteria: spiders classified as training and proxy types are blocked by default on pages with advertisements, while search types continue to be allowed. That is to say, whether the same article can be read may be two results, and this level of judgment is not written in the robots file.
Why is there an advertisement in the judgment criteria?
This rule is to treat content as an asset for monetization: the page earns money through advertisements, while training type crawlers no longer bring back visitors after collecting materials in batches, the platform will block by default. The search type is different, the content it retrieves will ultimately point to the source, belonging to another type of use, so it is allowed by default. The determination occurs at the classification layer on the platform side, which does not use text matching, but rather a combination of page features and crawler classification conditions to decide.
The direct impact on the site owner is that the visibility of content is no longer solely determined by the rules written by themselves, but also depends on whether there is an ad slot in the page template. Sites using two sets of templates for document pages and article pages are most likely to appear in two months with 'some pages read and some not read.'
Default handling of three types of crawlers
Training material collection is a one-time large-scale grab, default block; agency class is the batch that retrieves content in real-time for users, also default block; retrieval class is responsible for organizing pages into referenceable indexes, default allow. The default values of the three types only take effect on new domains connected, and the currently effective values of existing domains need to be confirmed by themselves.
One point to note: There is no such rule in the robots file. Text guidance cannot express conditions like 'block with ads, allow without ads', and expressing this intention through robots will not take effect; the actual handling occurs at the classification level.
Will there be two sets of results within the same site?
Will, and this is the easiest to overlook. Common three types of inconsistencies: column templates with ads while special topic templates without; landing pages without ads, while the main content pages have; static pages and dynamic pages use different templates. In all three cases, the visibility of the same content to different crawlers is different, and the report will show that the request volume of a particular crawler suddenly stratifies.
When troubleshooting, group by template instead of by category. First, look at which types of pages have ad slots, and then look at the return status of these pages for the three types of crawlers respectively. Only when the two sets of information match can it be confirmed whether the default value is in effect.
To ensure that the content is read, check which part it should be matched with.
Firstly, it is the classification switch on the platform side, confirming the current effective values of training, proxy, and retrieval classes, as well as whether this default value has taken effect on your own domain. Secondly, the robots configuration should align with the disposal direction of the classification layer, avoiding the situation of allowing and blocking at the same time. Thirdly, the exit for large language models, the visibility criteria of llms.txt related to GEO should be confirmed separately, and it should be judged whether the content is organized and referenced as expected.
After making changes once, only move one place at a time, and then review the crawling records: by counting the request volume and return status of the three types of crawlers separately, you can confirm which layer the changes have fallen on.
Common questions
Ask: Can the training class read it by turning off the advertisement? Answer: It is valid in terms of direction, but you need to confirm whether this default value is effective on your own domain and what the current effective value of the classification layer is.
Ask: Can the robots file express this condition? Answer: No. The judgment of whether there is advertisement or not occurs at the platform classification layer, and the robots cannot express this condition.
Ask: How can we locate the inconsistency in visibility between the same site and different pages? Answer: Check the return status by grouping by template, count once for each template with and without advertisement, which is faster than grouping by column.