While you want to make most content as easy as possible for Google to crawl, there are certain instances in which you'll want to block bots. For the most part, bots and spiders are relatively harmless ...

Many SEOs who do site audits commonly overlook security and bot traffic as part of their audits because it’s not widely understood by digital marketers that security events impact site performance and ...

Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models. Some AI vendors, ...

With all the talk about ChatGPT and other AI bots, did you know that there is an OpenAI ChatGPT bot and it respects the robots.txt protocol? So if you want, you can block OpenAI's ChatGPT bot from ...

Most threats in any digital environment come from bots or botnets. While some bots are useful, some mimic human behavior with evil intentions. These malicious bots hoard resources, perform account ...

“Many sites, wary of Al vendors training models on their content without alerting or compensating them, have opted to block Al scrapers and crawlers. Around 26% of the top 1,000 sites on the web have ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

Online businesses are at risk of bad bot activity, certainly more now than they used to be. According to a survey from Imperva, 42.3% of internet traffic in 2021 wasn’t human, but instead bots that ...

Spiderbots have been crawling the web for years collecting data. Some of these bots have been helpful because they send users to sources of original content online. The rise of generative AI and LLMs ...