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WAF / Cloudflare bot allow

Medium impactCrawl & access

Your security layer (often Cloudflare's bot protection) can silently turn away visitors it thinks are bots; this fix gives you the exact settings to change so the legitimate AI crawlers are let through.

Why AI engines read this

Even with everything else perfect, a security wall that bounces AI crawlers means they get a 'no entry' instead of your content, so you can never be read or quoted.

How to tell it applies to you

From our probe, the edge (Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode / WAF) returned a block to an AI crawler's User-Agent.

Apply it on your platform

The exact place to make this change depends on your platform. Open the guide for the step-by-step on WordPress, Shopify, Wix, and more.

Open the platform guide

Step-by-step for your CMS, with how to confirm it worked.

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How you'll know it's done

Mark the fix applied in your dashboard once you've made the change — Findrix re-checks the live page right away, and the weekly scan confirms it. Once the fix is live the matching check flips to pass; a change you made without marking it is caught by the same scan.