It is possible to completely block bot traffic to a new website?

[savitaprasad]

It is possible to completely block bot traffic to a new website?

 

[Alf85]

100% nop. But you can try with Cloudflare FREE + some rules like block Ai scrapers. It's free.

 

[romel9000]

It is not possible to completely block all bot traffic to a new website.
The internet relies on "good" bots like Googlebot and Bingbot to crawl and index your site so it can appear in search results. Blocking these essential bots would prevent your new website from being found by search engines, which defeats the purpose of launching a site.

 

[RotatingProxy]

It is possible to completely block bot traffic to a new website?

You can’t fully block bots but using firewalls rate limiting and bot management can cut most of the unwanted traffic

 

[badhabitsdestroyer]

Yes, you can. You can activate cloudflare AND turn on bot protection (attacker mode). It will force everyone to solve captcha to enter your site.

As you asked without additional details then the answer is yes.

Otherwise if you will add more conditions, then of course it will become exponentially harder than turning on a setting in cloudflare.

 

[Quentin_Harlech]

No, it's impossible to block all bot traffic completely. You can only significantly reduce it using services like Cloudflare and strong CAPTCHAs.

 

[SendMyFriend]

Well Cloudflare seems to work good, but y won't block it completely, as It mentioned.

But think about what - If y insert alot of systems, that block bots - It can cut some alive users.

So y should balance It.

 

[omi3oh1]

I feel like you can’t block every single bot, but you can at least cut down a lot of the bad ones with the right settings.

 

[Deniss john]

You can’t fully block all bots, but you can reduce most of them. Use Cloudflare bot protection, rate-limiting, and strict firewall rules this cuts 80–90% of bad bot traffic on new sites.

 

[paisawaisa]

100% nop. But you can try with Cloudflare FREE + some rules like block Ai scrapers. It's free.

Cloudfare is free? How reliable is this free service?

 

[Wei Jianhong]

It is challenging to completely block all bot traffic to a new website, but implementing measures like robots.txt, CAPTCHAs, and traffic analysis tools can significantly reduce unwanted bot activity.

 

[ufa12bet]

You can’t block all bots, but you can limit most with firewalls, CAPTCHA, and bot filters.

 

[geekproxy]

No, it's not realistic. Reduce - yes. Cloudflare bot protection works well. The main thing is not to overdo with protection to the point it becomes harmful.

 

[Starblazer]

No, you can't block all bots. But you can block most of them using cloudflare filters and robots.txt customisation. Bots are like gut bacteria. You don't want to get rid of 100% of them. Be careful about what you're blocking.

 

[seomaster5]

Yes, you can. You can activate cloudflare AND turn on bot protection (attacker mode). It will force everyone to solve captcha to enter your site.

As you asked without additional details then the answer is yes.

Otherwise if you will add more conditions, then of course it will become exponentially harder than turning on a setting in cloudflare.

But that means even genuine visitors will feel troubled by this.

 

[badhabitsdestroyer]

But that means even genuine visitors will feel troubled by this.

Yes, but did OP ever mention in the initial post that he cares about it?

 

[seomaster5]

Yes, but did OP ever mention in the initial post that he cares about it?

If I was at place of OP, I would surely care.

 

[badhabitsdestroyer]

If I was at place of OP, I would surely care.

We can only guess what OP is trying to achieve. He didn't even reply since initial post.

 

[Jamilhosen]

Yes, but it work not 100% properly.

 

[Dunyahayine]

you won’t catch every bot, but tools like Cloudflare rules and robots.txt can filter the majority. Think of bots like seasoning you don’t want to remove everything, just the harmful ones.