I would appreciate it if you could guide me and explain to me if I should always keep the Bot Fight Mode activated to protect my website or not? My account is free. Please explain to me if I can leave it activated and in this way it does not affect SEO or only activate it when I have the idea that you are hacking me? Many thanks to all who can give me their comments.
If I suspect something is wrong with Google Search Console, I go and cross-check Security → Events from Cloudflare dashboard to see if anything is blocked by Bot Fight Mode and which results to some issues reported from GSC.
Since on free plan, if true, I’d disable BFM and follow-up the events what happens and if GSC would report no issues after few days and tune-up my WAF Custom Rules to block some known bad-bots such as by user-agent or ASN, etc.
In general, it should not affect SEO for your Website, at least I didn’t had any issues so far yet.