Three months ago, I wrote about the Reddit earnings story most marketers missed. That first-quarter call wasn’t the financial story I expected, but looking back, it was Reddit putting the pieces of its future on the record: participation had become too difficult, community creation needed work, human conversation was becoming more valuable, and Reddit Answers could […]
Report That Cloudflare AI Bot Blocking Prevents Googlebot From Indexing Sites
There’s a report that blocking AI training bots with Cloudflare is also blocking legitimate Googlebot and Bingbot from indexing a website. Cloudflare recently announced that this would happen beginning in September. It’s unclear whether this is a fluke or user error but it does serve as a reminder to be aware of the pending change […]