I was checking the Google Search Console coverage report and found that lots of our forum pages are blocked by robots.txt. So I went ahead and checked the robots.txt. Then I found that semrushbot and ahrefsbot are blocked by default: [image] I know these are two widely used SEO tools, why blocking…

[图片] Jamie_Liu1: I know these are two widely used SEO tools, why blocking their bots? Because they suck? They add a lot of server load for no discernable benefit, and our customers do have pageview limits on their plans.

Why semrushbot and ahrefsbot are blocked by default?

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osioke (Osioke Itseuwa) 2020 年7 月 14 日 12:35 4

This was fixed recently with

Can you update your Discourse and reverify?

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Why semrushbot and ahrefsbot are blocked by default?

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