Should I Block AI Crawlers At Robots.txt Or Server Level? – Ask An SEO via @sejo

<p>AI bots drain server resources and scrape IP, but blocking them risks invisibility in LLM answers. Here is how to decide.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Should websites allow AI search crawlers?</p> <p>Not blindly.</p> <p>Blocking every AI crawler can protect content from some forms of reuse, but it can also make a site less

<p>A valid robots.txt file does not necessarily mean a website is accessible to crawlers. Requests can still fail when a <a

<p>Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 defaults that can block Googlebot for sites blocking training.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Someone on Reddit recently shared that Meta's AI crawler hit their site <strong>7.9 million times in 30 days</strong> — burning through 900+ GB of bandwidth before they even

<p>Break the Protection Paradox by aligning content strategy with how modern search and AI systems discover and surface information.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Bot Preference Sync sets AI crawler policy per category, not per crawler. Allow GPTBot and block Bytespider, and no setting describes what you do.</p> <p>The post <a