Reply To: Traffic dropped after AI crawl spikes

Yeah, I’m not buying the “AI crawler caused the drop” thing by itself. Seen this too many times where the bot activity is just the noisy bit that happens to line up with some indexing wobble, template issue, or a bad crawl wave. If it’s only a couple sites and the timing is tight, sure, dig into it — but I’d want to see something a lot cleaner than “logs got busy and traffic went down.” Honestly,