Understanding the difference between search bots and scrapers is crucial for SEO. Website crawlers fall into two categories: ...

Crawl budget is a common source of concern and confusion in SEO. This guide will explain everything you need to know about crawl budget and how it may impact your technical SEO efforts in 2025. Google ...

Cloudflare, which services about 20% of websites, announced Tuesday that it is now blocking web-scraping AI bots from accessing those sites by default. Unless a website explicitly turns off the ...

Microsoft's Clarity has released a way to identify patterns that show how AI crawlers, search bots, and automated agents interact with web content long before AI agents serve up citation or referral ...

OpenAI is reportedly scaling up its crawling infrastructure for the holiday shopping season. The folks at Merj noticed OpenAI adding a lot of new IP ranges for its bots and crawlers. Ryan Siddle from ...

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Global cloud platform company Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of using “stealth, undeclared crawlers” to intentionally ignore websites’ no-crawl directives. In other words, Perplexity is getting ...

Cloudflare will block AI bots from crawling websites by default for new customers, and broker pay-per-crawl deals between its customers and bot operators. Cloudflare will block AI crawlers from ...

Almost eight in ten of the biggest news websites in the UK and US are now blocking AI training bots. This week in London publishers were told it is “never too late” to begin blocking the bots due to ...