Don’t Lose Out on AI-Driven Traffic, SproutScape Can Help You Stay Discoverable
Attention business owners, marketers, and website managers:
A major change just rolled out that could seriously hurt your website’s visibility in emerging AI-driven search if you don’t act quickly.
As of July 2025, Cloudflare now blocks AI bots by default.
That includes OpenAI’s GPTBot, Google-Extended (used by Gemini), PerplexityBot, and many other crawlers that power the next generation of AI search and answer engines.
Why This Matters for Your Business
We’re in the middle of a massive shift in how people find information.
AI-powered search tools and chatbots don’t just link to websites they summarize them, recommend them, and cite them directly in answers.
✅ When AI crawlers can access your site, your content can appear in AI search results.
✅ When they’re blocked, you’re invisible in those results.
That means:
- Less organic traffic.
- Fewer potential customers finding you through new AI interfaces.
- Missed opportunities to be cited or recommended.
If you’re using Cloudflare, and haven’t adjusted these new settings, you might already be blocking AI bots without realizing it.
What Changed Exactly?
Previously, websites using Cloudflare had to opt out if they didn’t want AI bots crawling their content.
Now?
Cloudflare’s default for new customers is to block AI crawlers entirely.
And for existing sites, they’re making it easier than ever to block these bots—often with a single toggle you might not even know you activated.
This is a reaction to concerns about AI companies scraping content without permission. While that’s a real issue, for many businesses being discoverable is the whole point.
If you want to show up in AI-driven search results (and you do), blocking these bots by default is a big problem.
Why This Is Urgent to Check
AI-driven search isn’t just a trend it’s quickly becoming how people find answers online.
- ChatGPT, Gemini (Google’s AI), and Perplexity are already crawling and indexing sites.
- Many people are using these tools instead of traditional search engines.
- If your site isn’t included in their data, it simply won’t show up when people ask questions they could find you for.
This isn’t about handing over your entire site to AI companies for free.
It’s about making informed choices about what to allow and ensuring your best content remains discoverable.
SproutScape Can Help You Fix This
Here’s the reality:
Most website owners don’t even know whether they’re blocking AI bots.
They’re busy running their business, not digging through firewall rules or bot management settings.
That’s where we come in.
✅ We’ll help you review your current settings.
✅ We’ll make sure your site is accessible to the AI crawlers you want indexing it.
✅ We’ll help you protect sensitive or private content you don’t want crawled.
✅ We’ll develop a balanced, smart strategy for AI-driven SEO.
Don’t get left behind in the AI search revolution just because of a default setting you didn’t even know was switched on.
Why Work With SproutScape?
We don’t just know the technical side we understand the business goals:
- More visibility.
- More qualified traffic.
- Better customer discovery.
- Long-term search resilience as AI evolves.
We’ve helped businesses of all sizes navigate these changes without the hassle or confusion.
Ready to Make Sure AI Can Find You?
Don’t risk your website becoming invisible in AI search results.
Contact SproutScape today for a quick, practical review of your site’s AI crawler access and an action plan to stay discoverable.
Visit SproutScape.io to get started.
Because staying ahead in search isn’t just about Google anymore it’s about making sure AI knows you’re there.