AI-scraper protection

Many website owners want control over whether automated crawlers — including AI training bots — can copy their text and images. We review your current setup and configure the standard, publicly documented controls that signal and enforce your preferences. Quoted individually after a review of your site and hosting.

What we can configure

robots.txt directives for known AI crawlers (for example GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and other documented agents), alongside your existing search-engine rules.
Page-level meta tags such as noai/noimageai style directives where supported.
Server and CDN-level bot rules (for example Cloudflare bot management or web-application-firewall rules) where your hosting supports them.
Image and asset delivery review — hotlink protection and sensible caching headers where your platform allows.
A written record of exactly which controls were configured and when.

Honest limitations — please read

robots.txt is a voluntary standard: reputable crawlers respect it, but nothing technical forces every bot to obey. We will never promise complete blocking.
Blocking AI crawlers can reduce your visibility in AI-powered search and assistants. For some businesses that trade-off is worth it; for others it is not. We help you decide deliberately, bot by bot.
Determined scrapers can ignore rules entirely. Stronger enforcement (rate limiting, bot management) depends on what your hosting platform supports.
These controls do not remove content that has already been copied.

How it works

We review your current robots.txt, meta tags, hosting and CDN setup.
We agree which crawlers to allow, block or rate-limit, in writing.
We configure the controls and verify them with live requests.
You receive a dated summary of the configuration for your records.

Request a quote for AI-scraper protection or email colin@fortresswebcompliance.com.

This service is a technical configuration service, not legal advice about copyright or data use.

Last updated: October 2026