The AI Bot Blocking Mistake That Could Cost Online Stores Traffic in 2026
A Melbourne homewares store I looked at recently had a perfectly clean robots.txt. No blanket “block all AI” rule, no leftover 2024 panic-blocking. The block was happening one layer up, in the Cloudflare settings nobody had opened since the account was set up. That’s the pattern worth understanding before it costs you a channel you
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