If you want your site to appear in AI search, allowing crawlers can seem like the obvious choice. But if automated traffic consumes too many server resources, blocking it seems just as reasonable. The problem is treating those two options as mutually exclusive.
You don’t need to give every bot the same level of access. Some crawlers help your content appear in search or AI results, while others may hit your site heavily without doing much for visibility. Once you know which is which, you can decide where to keep access open and where to tighten it.
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