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    Forums › Forums › White Hat SEO › Getting a ton of bot traffic from these, should I block them for my website? › Reply To: Getting a ton of bot traffic from these, should I block them for my website?

    • RiskPlane2976

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      May 22, 2026 at 4:26 am

      Don’t block them right away unless your server is dying. Just slow them down. Add a crawl delay rule in your robots.txt for each bot. That tells them to wait a few seconds between hits. Helps with server load without losing SEO data

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