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Block AI crawlers and bad bots at the server level with .htaccess: copy-paste mod_rewrite and SetEnvIf rules, which bots to block (and never block), testing steps, and what to do on Nginx or Shopify.

Block AI crawlers on Shopify with robots.txt.liquid: step-by-step template setup, copy-paste rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot and CCBot, testing steps, and what to do about bots that ignore robots.txt.

Every robots.txt directive explained in plain English: Allow, Disallow, Crawl-delay, Sitemap, wildcards, and the common mistakes that accidentally block Google. With copy-paste examples you can use today.

Block AI crawlers on Squarespace: the exact setting to flip, what the AI toggle covers, what it misses, and how to add real enforcement with Cloudflare.

Learn how to block Mistral AI crawlers (MistralAI-User) with robots.txt in 2026 — exact code, the three Mistral tokens, and when blocking helps or hurts.

Learn how to block Amazonbot with robots.txt in 2026: the exact code to block all three Amazon crawlers, selective allow rules, and how to verify the block worked.

Block AI crawlers on Ghost with a custom robots.txt in your theme, Cloudflare rules, or Code Injection. Step-by-step for all three methods, plus what to block and what to allow.

Crawl budget is the URLs Google can and wants to crawl on your site. Learn who it affects, how to diagnose waste in Search Console, and the six fixes that actually work.

Fake crawlers spoof the Googlebot user-agent daily. Learn the reverse-DNS plus forward-DNS method Google documents to verify any bot's identity — with copy-paste commands.