Understanding the difference between search bots and scrapers is crucial for SEO. Website crawlers fall into two categories: This guide breaks down first-party crawlers that can improve your site’s ...

The new change, which Cloudflare calls its Content Signals Policy, happened after publishers and other companies that depend ...

AI, by design, doesn’t send you to the source—it summarizes, paraphrases, and packages information drawn from those very ...

Search engines use special rules called algorithms to rank websites. They look at things like how useful the content is, how ...

Hundreds of major companies and websites are now blocking ChatGPT's web crawler. Dozens more are also now blocking the crawler of Common Crawl, a major source of AI training data. Unique, high quality ...

In the past few years, digital marketing has changed and evolved. It is no longer about using the right keywords and posting quality content regularly. Many new elements like user experience, local ...

Google has updated its Verifying Googlebot and other Google crawlers help document to add a new section describing the three categories or types of crawlers they have. They have their Googlebot ...

Publishers are now fighting back against unauthorized AI web scraping, abandoning polite requests for aggressive technical ...

Cloudflare has built an 'AI labyrinth' to thwart AI companies training data off their customers' content. Credit: Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images AI is stealing your content. We know this is how ...