👋 Hey Reader, Welcome back to another episode of the TechSEO Vitals Newsletter! Last year, blocking AI bots felt like the obvious move. Cloudflare made it one click. A lot of people pressed it. In a few weeks, that click starts blocking Googlebot. Not a warning. Not a preference in a text file. Cloudflare blocks the request before it can read your robots.txt file. ➡️ TL;DR Cloudflare now judges crawlers on all their behaviors, not one – and the most restrictive rule wins Googlebot crawls for...