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Getting Started
Quick guides to get RenderBeam running on your site
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Step-by-step setup for various platforms
Bot Management
Configure which crawlers can access your rendered pages
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Technical documentation for developers
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Plans, usage, lifecycle, and data retention
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Free SEO and AI tools to help your website
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llms.txt — make your site AI-discoverable
What llms.txt is, why it matters for AI search, and how to generate one for free.
Updated 5/4/2026
How we serve bots (and why we don't cloak)
One render, one cache, every bot. Why RenderBeam serves the same HTML to Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot — and what we add automatically.
Updated 5/4/2026
Cloudflare Worker Setup
Deploy the RenderBeam Worker that detects bots and serves cached HTML from the Cloudflare edge.
Updated 5/4/2026
Bot Configuration
Choose which of the 84 search, social, AI, SEO and archive crawlers see your rendered pages.
Updated 5/4/2026
API Overview
Endpoints, authentication, rate limits and error handling for the RenderBeam API.
Updated 5/4/2026
Cache & billing — what counts as a render
How cache hits, misses, and overages are billed. Why caching saves you money.
Updated 5/4/2026
How the Visibility Checker works
What our free Visibility Checker actually checks, and how to read the result.
Updated 5/4/2026
Quick Start Guide
Get RenderBeam working in about 10 minutes — from signup to the first rendered page.
Updated 5/4/2026
Account lifecycle: trial, active, paused, deleted
What state your account moves through and how long you have at each step.
Updated 5/4/2026
robots.txt for AI crawlers — a practical guide
Allow or block ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and other AI bots from your site.
Updated 5/4/2026
Edge setup without Cloudflare
Use RenderBeam on Vercel, Netlify, or any platform via the *.edge.renderbeam.com CNAME flow.
Updated 5/4/2026
sitemap.xml best practices
Sitemap rules every site owner should follow — plus a free verifier.
Updated 5/4/2026
Domain Verification
Prove you own a domain with a single DNS TXT record.
Updated 5/4/2026
Usage warnings and overage billing
How RenderBeam warns you about usage and bills overages so you're never surprised.
Updated 5/4/2026
Understanding bot status codes
Plain-English guide to the 200, 301, 404, and 5xx codes you see in Bot Activity.
Updated 5/4/2026
Data retention and GDPR
What we store, how long we keep it, and how to export or delete your data.
Updated 5/4/2026
Fail-open behavior
How RenderBeam protects your real users when rendering or lookups fail.
Updated 5/4/2026