# AI Citations - Does Discourse allow AI bot crawling?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-citations-does-discourse-allow-ai-bot-crawling/377819>\
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**Created:** [August 8, 2025, 4:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-citations-does-discourse-allow-ai-bot-crawling/377819 "2025-08-08T04:08:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![abrambailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/abrambailey/32/119786_2.png) [@abrambailey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/abrambailey)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-citations-does-discourse-allow-ai-bot-crawling/377819/4 "2025-08-08T11:16:47Z")

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The ahrefs bot doesn’t need to be able to index our forum for this to work as it’s only reporting on what it sees on Google.

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