Hi, we’re using the free plan of Cloudflare and are are facing a lot of bot traffic that makes our site unusable if not blocked. Most of the human traffic comes from Germany and most of the (bad) bot traffic comes from the US. If I block the US and allow good bots (cf.client.bot) to access our site…

Could you go to your Dashboard > Security > Events and search for an event where Googlebot was blocked? Then post back here the details, especially what Service (WAF, Rate Limiting etc.) and what rule is doing the block.

How do I block bad bots and allow good ones?

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oliver24 March 21, 2023, 3:58pm 7

And the Google search console shows either 403 or 5xx errors Bildschirmfoto 2023-03-21 um 16.50.28

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How do I block bad bots and allow good ones?

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