Microsoft Clarity Now Flags Bots That Ignore Robots.txt via @sejournal, @MattGSo

<p>Anecdotal report that blocking AI training bots with Cloudflare blocks Googlebot from indexing websites.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Google's John Mueller explains a robots.txt quirk that can cause Googlebot to ignore robots.txt rules.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Akamai breaks down which AI bots are hitting publishing, who operates them, and why fetcher bots may pose a more immediate risk.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Bing's AI Performance dashboard now maps grounding queries to cited pages, letting you connect AI citation data to specific URLs on your site.</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

<p>Clarity now splits AI citation queries into branded and non-branded. The two mean different things, and only one counts as discovery.</p> <p>The post <a