Start with search evidence
Cloudflare AI Crawl Control turns AI crawler access into a managed policy, which is useful when content sites have different page types and citation boundaries.
Define AI crawler policy separately for home, daily issues, evergreen pages, resource indexes, privacy pages, and low-value paths.
Visibility is not demand
The useful question is not whether the page appeared somewhere; it is whether the search term, page promise, and next action fit the same reader job.
Check the page path
- Build an AI crawler policy by page type: allow, limit, observe, or block, with a short reason for each lane
- Keep the test narrow: one priority page with clear topic, source links, internal links, and a conversion action
What still needs proof
Without boundaries, AI crawlers can reach low-value, duplicate, or non-citable pages while missing the facts that should travel. Keep the original source open so the announcement, the evidence, and this site's interpretation stay separate.