OpenAI bots hammer sites with thousands of bogus /brand URL requests weekly
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-10-20
Site owner gaganghotra reports that OpenAI crawlers are hitting his client's site thousands of times per week, fetching URLs like brand.com/page-title/brand — appending a /brand suffix to paths where only brand.com/page-title/ actually exists. A first-hand observation of odd OpenAI crawler behavior, directly relevant to anyone doing SEO/AEO monitoring of bot traffic.
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