Reply To: Blocking traffic from China – is there any risk getting penalized by Google etc?

[billhartzer]

There shouldn’t generally be an issue. Google primarily crawls from US-based IPs. You may have issues showing up in the AIs though.

But you might consider using Cloudflare to have them block the AI bots. That may be your issue.

If you choose to block by country, I would do that through Cloudflare so the traffic is blocked before it even hits your server (rather than having your server block the traffic and have to serve up the blocks.)