Rise and Shine: Your Daily Dose Of Business Tech Inspiration

Should You Block AI Bots from Accessing Your Website with Cloudflare? (2025/582)


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AI bots are increasingly crawling websites to train their models and provide instant answers — sometimes replacing traditional search engine traffic. But should you let them use your content, or block them entirely?


In this episode, Charly explains Cloudflare’s new “Block AI Bots” and “AI Labyrinth” features, showing exactly where to find and enable them. She breaks down the pros and cons so you can decide what’s right for your site.


📌 In this episode, Charly covers:


✅ Why AI bots visit your site — and what they do with your content


✅ How excessive bot traffic can hurt performance and cost you money


✅ When blocking AI bots might protect your business


✅ Step-by-step on turning on AI Labyrinth and Block AI Bots in Cloudflare


🛡️ Manage your site’s traffic wisely — protect resources while keeping the right visitors.


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Rise and Shine: Your Daily Dose Of Business Tech InspirationBy Ask Charly Leetham