Topic: search indexing
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Is Your Login Page Killing Your SEO?
A generic login page across multiple private URLs can be seen as duplicate content by search engines, harming indexing and rankings. Using robots.txt to block private URLs is ineffective and can pose security risks; instead, use noindex tags or redirects to marketing pages with login options. Add...
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Cloudflare Lets Sites Block Google AI Overviews
Cloudflare's new Content Signals Policy allows website owners to specify preferences for how AI systems use their content, going beyond traditional robots.txt permissions. The policy introduces three directives (`search`, `ai-input`, `ai-train`) to control content use for search indexing, AI-gene...
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Cloudflare Blocked 416 Billion AI Bot Requests in 6 Months
Cloudflare blocked 416 billion AI bot requests in six months, highlighting a fundamental shift in data collection driven by large language models and its efforts to reshape the web's economics. The company's CEO argues AI is a "platform shift" altering the internet's core business model, forcing ...
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