Always-on monitoring of Google's separately controllable AI-training token. Google-Extended governs Gemini Apps and Vertex AI training and grounding. Per Google: it does not impact Search inclusion or ranking. Sentry catches directive drift between intent and configuration. Cortex handles the fix.
Continuous audits of your Google-Extended posture against the 6 things that matter for Gemini training and grounding inclusion. Per Google's docs: 'Google-Extended does not impact a site's inclusion in Google Search nor is it used as a ranking signal.' This is a pure policy decision. Sentry catches drift between intent and configuration. Cortex fixes it.
robots.txt contains an explicit Allow or Disallow for User-agent: Google-Extended, not implicit. Per Google's docs: Google-Extended has no separate HTTP user-agent string; it is a robots.txt token only.
User-agent: Googlebot still allows crawl. Verbatim from Google's docs: 'Google-Extended does not impact a site's inclusion in Google Search nor is it used as a ranking signal.' Blocking it is purely a Gemini-training decision.
Page-level `nosnippet` and `max-snippet` directives align with the Google-Extended choice. AI Overviews are suppressed when nosnippet is set, regardless of Google-Extended posture; mixed signals confuse the grounding pipeline.
If a Cloudflare 'Block AI Training' managed rule is active, it does not contradict the robots.txt Google-Extended directive. A WAF Allow alongside a robots.txt Disallow (or vice versa) creates a confusing posture for both Google and downstream auditors.
A public page on the site documents the AI-training stance. Increases transparency for users and downstream platforms parsing the policy. Not required by Google, but recommended for any GEO-conscious brand.
A scripted Gemini test query reflects the chosen posture: cited if Allow, absent if Disallow. Catches infrastructure misconfiguration that contradicts the robots.txt declaration.
Paste your homepage URL. Sentry verifies the Google-Extended directive, confirms Googlebot remains unaffected, cross-checks Cloudflare and meta-robots posture, and pings Gemini for live behavior, then ships a per-rule report. No signup, instant results, always free.
Sentry fetches your site, runs every GOOGLE-EXTENDED rule, and renders the full result page before your next sip of coffee.
Each failed rule ships with a prescription paragraph. Hand it to engineering and the gap is closed before lunch.
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6 rules in the GOOGLE-EXTENDED Sentry. Daily 3:30 AM ET sweep.
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