How to make your Next.js site appear in ChatGPT (and any LLM)

The article explains how to manage AI crawler access on Next.js sites.

It distinguishes training crawlers, search/index crawlers, and user-initiated fetches.

Using robots.txt, robots.ts, sitemaps, and crawlable HTML can keep pages visible to search-oriented AI while blocking training bots like GPTBot.

Blocking the wrong bot can remove a site from citations in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other answer engines.