ClaudeBot is hammering your server. Here is what it is doing and how to slow it down
ClaudeBot collects pages that may train Anthropic's Claude models. What it actually did on two ordinary WordPress sites this month, how to check a visit is real, and three ways to slow or block it without blocking the Anthropic bots that send you readers.
Should you block AI bots? It depends which of the three jobs they are doing
AI bots do three different jobs on your site. Training crawls give nothing back, search crawls let assistants find you later, and live reads turn into visitors. Here is which to block, which to keep, and how to do it on WordPress.
Can you find out which prompts sent ChatGPT to your site?
What you can actually know from your own site, what you can only estimate, and how to do both without wasting money. Every week someone asks a version of this question in an SEO or AEO forum: Is there a tool that shows the actual prompts where my website is cited in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity … Continued