Squarespace AI crawler settings and robots.txt, explained
Squarespace manages robots.txt entirely: you cannot upload or directly edit the file. What you get instead is a platform-level crawler setting that writes Disallow rules for a set of known AI crawlers into the managed file when enabled. That makes your real policy a product of a toggle plus Squarespace's crawler list, not a file you author, and the only way to know your current posture is to read what the domain serves.
Runs in your browser. Your domain is never sent to us, and nothing is stored.
Type your domain and the file appears here.
Applying this on Squarespace
- Read yoursite.com/robots.txt. On Squarespace this is the ground truth, because no editor exists.
- Paste your domain into our AI crawler check to see which named crawlers the managed file currently allows and blocks, including retired tokens.
- Decide your policy, then set the platform's AI-crawler setting to match. Remember it is one switch over Squarespace's list, not per-crawler control: allowing one AI engine while blocking another is not something the platform offers.
- Re-read robots.txt after saving and confirm the rules changed the way you expected.
llms.txt on Squarespace
Squarespace does not support uploading files to your domain root, so llms.txt is not available on this platform today. That is a platform limit, not a fixable configuration: if llms.txt matters to your strategy, it requires either a different host for the root domain or accepting the gap. llms.txt Validator · llms.txt Generator
Can AI crawlers read your Squarespace content at all?
Squarespace pages are served with content in the HTML, so readability by AI crawlers is rarely the problem here. The constraint on this platform is control, not rendering: you decide less about who may fetch that HTML than on any other platform on this list. Server-Side Rendering Checker
Questions
- Can I edit robots.txt on Squarespace?
- No. The file is platform-managed. Your control is the AI-crawler setting, which toggles Disallow rules for Squarespace's list of known AI crawlers as a group.
- Can I allow ChatGPT but block a different AI crawler on Squarespace?
- Not with the built-in setting, which applies to the platform's crawler list as a whole. Per-crawler policy requires a platform that exposes the file itself.
- How do I know what my Squarespace site currently blocks?
- Read yoursite.com/robots.txt, or run our crawler check on your domain: it names each AI crawler your managed file allows or blocks, so you are not inferring your policy from a settings label.
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