Allow or block Poseidon Research Crawler on Webflow: robots.txt in Site settings

In Site settings → SEO → Indexing, add a “User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler” group with “Disallow: /” to the robots.txt rules, save, and publish the site.

This response

You are ClaudeBot (Anthropic). Citable recognised you as an AI agent, so this is https://getcitable.in/crawlers/poseidon-research-crawler/webflow with the UI removed — the content only. A browser asking for the same address gets the full designed page.

Poseidon Research Crawler, and where Webflow keeps the rule

Poseidon Research Crawler is a crawler run by Poseidon Research. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index.

Webflow builds robots.txt from the rules entered in Site settings, and publishes it with the site.

Step by step

What to paste

A group that names a crawler replaces the * group for that crawler; it does not add to it. Paths the * group closes are open to a crawler with its own group unless they are repeated there.

Refuse Poseidon Research Crawler:

User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
Disallow: /

Allow Poseidon Research Crawler:

User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
Allow: /

What trips people up

Saving is not publishing. The rule is in the setting as soon as it is saved and on the live site only after the next publish.

Asked, or actually refused?

Webflow gives a site owner robots.txt and nothing stronger: there is no setting that refuses a request by its user agent. robots.txt is a request. A crawler that honours it stays out; nothing in the file stops one that does not. What is enforced is what the server or the edge in front of it refuses.

Check it yourself

A 200 means the name is let through; a 403 means something in front of the page refuses it. This tests the name from your own address. A platform that checks a crawler’s address as well may treat the real Poseidon Research Crawler differently.

The request:

curl -I -A "Poseidon Research Crawler" https://your-site.example/

Questions

How do I block Poseidon Research Crawler on Webflow?

In Site settings → SEO → Indexing, add a “User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler” group with “Disallow: /” to the robots.txt rules, save, and publish the site.

How do I allow Poseidon Research Crawler on Webflow?

A crawler that robots.txt does not name follows the * group, so Poseidon Research Crawler needs no rule to be allowed. To allow it by name, add the Allow block.

Can Webflow actually stop Poseidon Research Crawler, or only ask it?

Webflow gives a site owner robots.txt and nothing stronger: there is no setting that refuses a request by its user agent. robots.txt is a request. A crawler that honours it stays out; nothing in the file stops one that does not. What is enforced is what the server or the edge in front of it refuses.

Does a rule for Poseidon Research Crawler affect Googlebot or my Google rankings?

No. Googlebot goes by its own name and follows its own rules; a group or a firewall rule for Poseidon Research Crawler does not apply to it.

Checked against Webflow's own documentation on 1 October 2026

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About Citable

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When an AI agent — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or any of the 81 that Citable recognises — opens a page, Citable removes the theme, scripts, navigation and layout and serves only the content: the same facts, at the same URL, on the site's own domain. People and Google still get the full designed page.

How it works: https://getcitable.in/how-it-works · Summary for AI agents: https://getcitable.in/llms.txt


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