Block unwanted Crawlers using Cloudflare Firewall

Get Free checklist to increase WordPress PageSpeed score to 90+. https://veppa.com/speed/ In this video tutorial I share how to protect WordPress and other big websites from crawling bots using the free Cloudflare Firewall. Copy custom rules used in this tutorial — https://veppa.com/cloudflare-block-useless-bots/ Prevent waste of processing power of your web server from: ★ AI training bots. ★ SEO bots ( meta title, description, content crawlers). ★ Backlink crawlers. ★ Web scrapers ( email, phone, address collectors). ★ Photo & user generated content crawlers. Blocking known useless crawlers regularly helps to reduce 50% of requests and prevents waste of server resources. Benefits: ✓ No plugin solution. ✓ Crawlers blocked before reaching your web server. ✓ Expected huge reduction in bot traffic. ✓ Less server load. ✓ Protect website data from common bots. Steps: 1. Find top User Agents in webalizer report 2. Add custom WAF firewall rules with "Block" directive. 3. Regularly add new crawlers. Contents: 0:00 Intro 0:40 How crawlers affect site performance 1:24 Useless crawler bots 2:54 Identify bot "User Agents" in Webalizer 7:24 Add blocking Firewall Rules to Cloudflare #firewall #block #wordpress #cloudflare #free More WordPress speed tutorials playlist — https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvn-qBzU0II5glccFzxYHMnQFc2FnpCwb