Is your robots.txt keeping you out of Gemini?

Google has a robots.txt token called Google-Extended. It controls whether Google may use your pages to train future Gemini models and for grounding in Gemini Apps, which means handing Gemini pages from Google's index when it answers a question.

Google says Google-Extended doesn't affect your inclusion or ranking in Google Search. So you can rank fine in Google and still be left out of what Gemini draws on.

Do this today:

1. Open yourdomain.com/robots.txt.
2. Look for a User-agent: Google-Extended group with Disallow: /.
3. Want Gemini to use your pages? Remove that rule. Note it covers training too.

Want to see whether the AIs actually name you? Run a free check.

Sources: Google: common crawlers.