YouBot Crawler Simulator
Test how You.com's crawler sees your website. Optimize for the AI-first search engine.
Test your site with YouBot
Enter your URL to see how YouBot views your website.
What is YouBot?
YouBot is the web crawler for You.com, an AI-powered search engine that emphasizes personalization and AI chat features. You.com offers traditional search results alongside AI-generated summaries and answers. Being accessible to YouBot ensures your content can be found and cited in You.com's various search modes.
Why Allow YouBot?
YouBot robots.txt Configuration
Control how YouBot accesses your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain.
Allow YouBot
# Allow YouBot User-agent: YouBot Allow: /
Block YouBot
# Block YouBot User-agent: YouBot Disallow: /
User-Agent String: YouBot/1.0 (+https://you.com/bot)
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