Articles about "block AI bots"

Robots.txt is a request — Cloudflare is enforcement. Block AI scrapers with the free one-click toggle, Bot Fight Mode, WAF rules, and rate limiting. 2026 guide.

Should you block PerplexityBot? The nuanced 2026 answer: allow it for cited referral traffic — Perplexity says it doesn't train models — unless you need a full opt-out from AI search.

Learn how to block Mistral AI crawlers (MistralAI-User) with robots.txt in 2026 — exact code, the three Mistral tokens, and when blocking helps or hurts.

Cloudflare's Sept 15 robots.txt migration erased GPTBot bans at 118 sites. Fetch your live robots.txt and run this audit to confirm your AI opt-out still works.

News sites block AI crawlers more than any other industry: 41 of 69 news robots.txt files (59%) disallow GPTBot, vs 2 of 97 in finance. Fresh Oct 2026 robots.txt data: news leads at 59%, finance barely blocks. See the numbers and what to do.

YouBot feeds You.com answers, not Google rankings. Learn the exact robots.txt token, how to verify real YouBot visits by reverse DNS, and what blocking it does — and does not — do.

Use a free htaccess generator to build bot-blocking rules, redirects, HTTPS forcing, and security settings for Apache sites — no signup, no code writing needed.