Original announcement: · Reporting prepared on the publication date above.
What to know
- Google outlined a future shared signal for AI training preferences. It is a proposal, not a live ranking switch.
What Google announced
On October 30, Google described plans to support a shared policy token in robots.txt for publishers’ AI training preferences. Its stated target is 2027, and existing provider-specific controls such as Google-Extended would continue alongside it. This is not a feature to claim as already deployed.
Keep crawling and training separate
Before changing robots.txt, write down whether you want to affect search indexing, AI training or both. These are different controls with different effects. Test the file after every edit so that an accidental disallow does not hide valuable pages from search.
Your hosting setup should serve a consistent robots.txt and sitemap, with working canonical pages and monitoring. The site performance guide addresses another part of search readiness; server capacity should follow measured demand.
Sources & further reading
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