Reply To: Traffic dropped after AI crawl spikes

[adrian_knox]

Yeah, I’m with crawl_void on this one — smells like correlation more than cause. I’ve seen the same pattern a few times and it usually turns into some boring crawl/indexing thing, or a page group getting shuffled around, not the bot itself “doing” anything. The crawler spike just makes people notice the drop because it’s sitting there in the logs. If the dip lines up with a specific template or section, that’s where I’d look first. If it’s just “traffic felt weird after bots showed up,” that’s probably not enough to blame the crawl on its own. Also, if this starts turning into the usual “AI bots are stealing my rankings” loop, let’s keep it grounded. Logs are useful, but they don’t prove much by themselves.