Site Rules For Applebot-Extended Are Not Considered In Ranking For Search

Apple has updated its help documentation for Applebot over the weekend and added a single line at the end that reads, "Site rules for Applebot-Extended are not considered in ranking for Search." Applebot-Extended is not new; we covered it in April 2025, but here Apple is making it clear, like with Googlebot-Extended , that Applebot-Extended is separate from Search [1].

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1. seroundtable.com · Site Rules For Applebot-Extended Are Not Considered In Ranking For Search Sep 7, 2026

This is the neutral brief the press writes once, for everyone, before each reader’s paper adds its own so-what. It links out; it does not republish. 1 article clustered.

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